From: Steve Fenwick
Subject: Water Manager
Anglian Water Authority apparently
produced a program that simulated a
coastal town's water and sewage
handling system.
Has any one come across this software
or anything similar?
I have a friend that would very much
appreciate it if any one could help.
Telephone 01703 896634
To: 999 (all members)
From: D2N (VIC HORGAN)
Subject: HELP
Archimedes 31O
(Before going on I must reassure
members that I have no intention of
upgrading my faithful Master 128 which
I use for all my serious computing.
The Archimedes was given to me by a
friend and I felt obliged to set it
up and use it for more trivial
pursuits -e.g. excellent 3-D games,
chess,etc.)
Back to the problem.
I fitted a Hard Drive and Interface
kit into the Archimedes and it would
not run.The technical adviser of the
suppliers (ICS) suggested that I take
out the backplane of the computer and
fit the Interface into the motherboard
connector (vertical).This had no
effect.The kit was returned to ICS who
checked it with another Archimedes 31O
and found it alright.The fault is
apparently with my motherboard
connector.
I know little about the innards of an
Archimedes and would be grateful if
any member could advise me about the
repair,replacement,etc. of this
particular component.
Vic Horgan D2N
(O1235 834544)
To: 999 (all members)
From: K6C (David Kent)
Subject: LOGO
I am a technician in a secondary
school in Bucks. Recently we have been
digging out and dusting off the old
BBC's and associated bits that have
been stacked in cupboards and under
benches for years. In our (and
probably many other) schools everyone
has been swept along by the quest
for HI-TECH and the good old BBC has
been sadly left on the shelf.
We are looking into teaching LOGO as
part of the Design and Technology
syllabus in the lower school (ages
about 12 to 14). Design & technology
is more about design as a problem
solving process, rather than the craft
subjects it has replaced. LOGO was
developed with this type of learning
very much in mind.
I am looking for a good definitive
reference book on the language, maybe
a member out there can give me some
advice.
The books I have come across already
are:
Mindstorms by Seymour Papert: this is
the no. 1 book about the philosophy of
LOGO. One important point he makes
(along with many others) is that the
intention should be to put the child
in control of the computer, rather
than the computer controlling the
child, and this can be achieved by
children learning programming. The
book was published in 1980 and it's a
pity that his approach is not very
fashionable in schools today.
LOGO Theory & Practice by D. Harper:
380ish pages of 'activities, teacher
hints, references and
questions/answers'. This one is useful
in places, but, frustratingly, there
is no detailed definition of the
language.
The Logotron LOGO Book: The language
definition in this one is incomplete,
so that you have to experiment to work
out the proper usage. Also the tutorial
section is tediously amusing.
We are intending to use this work to
emphasise a methodical approach to
planning tasks, giving it a relevance
beyond computing. I don't believe it
is beyond children of this age to
understand elementary system
methodology, but, never having studied
computer science myself, I need to
have a look at some appropriate text
book. Maybe someone can advise me on
this one too.
Ta DK
To: 999 (all members)
From: 3WU (Fred Price)
Subject: HELP HELP
A plea for help but this time it is
not for me but for a good friend of
mine who sends and gets videos from
his son who is in Australia,
The problem is that my friend is not a
BEEB MAN as he has got his son's old
computer an AMIGA AI200 and there are
some aspects that he would like to
learn more about so can anyone tell me
or my friend Ray if there is any club
in England that is similar to 8BIT
that he can get in contact with?
Well thats the problem can anyone
advise Ray or myself about this if you
can you can contact me or Ray direct
at his home.
Ray Brownson
7 Grange Rd
Belmont
Durham
DH1 1AW
Or on 0191 386 73 93
Or myself
Fred Price
8 Orchard St
Pallion
Sunderland City
Wearside
SR4 6QL
Or on 0191 567 91 35
Ray's son has proved that this Amiga
can make a very good Video heading
computer as I have seen quite a few
Videos from down under and I have seen
the results that Ray has learnt with a
bit of a stuggle and they are good so
I don't think I will ever get Ray to
change over to a Beeb.
Fred
PS Thank you Mr Editor for the kind
use of this space.
To: 999 (all members)
From: 3WU (Fred Price)
Subject: Prism Modem Cable
After my plea for help regarding the
Modem I had a call from Richard Harker
and he is in the same boat as me but
he did not have the connecting cable
so I checked mine and sent him a copy
of the plug end joints as follows,
Regarding both plugs my veiw is from
the rear with the half circle notches
at the bottom I will not join the two
plugs but the colours are there as on
mine,
First the 5 Pin Din Plug With no
connection to the top pin,
0
Blue 0 0 Red
Black 0 0 Yellow
-
Secondly the domino plug for the
RS423 port with the top pins joined
with a long tail from the Yellow,
0-----0 Yellow
0 Red
Blue 0 0 Black
-
If my cable is standard it is 44
inchs long and you may find it
difficult to obtain the RS423 plug
and dark Blue represents black as it
sort of blends into the background.
Fred
To: 999 (all members)
From: 3WU (Fred Price)
Subject: eMAIL
I would like to thank the club
members who contacted me and has
helped me in regards to the Prizm
modem and eMail but now I want to know
how and where is the companies such
as compuserve so I can contact them in
the near future so thanks again and
you can get me at.
8 Orchard St
Pallion
Sunderland City
SR4 6QL Tel 0191 567 91 35
Fred
To: 999 and K8G (J.Harston)
From: D5B (Jon Ripley)
Subject: HADFS On The Master & Compact
Trying this excellent filing system on
my Master 128 I noticed that PAGE is
raised to accomodate the memory
required.
Does anyone have a version of HADFS
which uses the Master's private RAM as
workspace as opposed to the space from
E00 onwards.