Re: Nostalgia - BBC Hardware wanted


"Jules" <julesrichardsonuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.02.07.21.58.00.19154@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:14:48 +0000, Julian wrote:

What type? Acorn Z80, Acorn 6502, Acorn 32016, Acorn ARM, Acorn 80286,
Torch Z80, Torch 68000, Casper 68000, Cumana 68008 (or even Acorn
65C102
or Acorn 80186 via an external copro adapter, I suppose)?

I've got a Casper 68000 - I thought I was the only person who bought
one...

Blimey - you probably were! :) Any chance of any photos?

still waiting for FlexOS (I think that's what it was called....)

Probably OS-9 for that board if anything - I think FLEX was the poorer
sibling and designed for 8 bit systems, whilst OS-9 was intended for 16
bit platforms (I've got OS-9 on the Cumana 68008 board and it seems like
quite a nice little OS)

I didn't realise they'd ever had any plans to release an OS for it -
there's a review of the board in March 1987's Micro User and it just
mentions an assembler, monitor, and C compiler. I think that board was
more intended as a teaching system than an actual OS platform.

I've dug out the box which contained the board, disks, ROMs and a leaflet -
no sign of the manual as yet, but it was an odd shape, so it's probably
inside/behind/underneath something I've not got to yet.

The OS ('Flix') is mentioned on the leaflet, under future developments -
along with an additional 256K of memory, an I/O card with RTC and RS232 and
the C compiler (which I bought with it)

I've emailed some photos to you Jules - they're a bit cr@ppy, but enjoy...


Julian


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