To: 999 (all members)
From: E5F (Dick Greening)
Subject: Midwich Hard Drive
Hi to everyone out there in '8BS Land'
I'm a new (OLD!) member, delighted to
find that the BBC still lives outside
my front door!
Anyway, down to business, I have
recently, thanks partly to Chris's
kind help, managed to get a Midwich
20Mb Hard Drive working on my BBC B.
Unfortunately, it came with no
instructions and only a few bits of SW
on the Drive (along with lots of other
rubbish!)
I foolishly tried to reformat the
drive with one of the pieces of SW I
found on the Drive.
WRONG!!!!!
"Unable to Format......Faulty Drive"
Has anyone any ideas, information,
instructions or a replacement
Mitsubishi MR522-M40 (1985) drive???
Phone/Fax 01869 347483 or via 8BS
Thanx.
From: E4N (Rik Page)
Subject: HELP - model B modifications
I have a model B with ATPL rom board
fitted. What I would like to know is
the answers to the following questions
if anyone can help me.
1) Can the ADFS chip be fitted to the
model B with 32K. Does the memory need
to be expanded to 64 or 128k to use it
properly and if so what is the best
way of expanding it. Are there any
ready made modules still available?
2) How can a 3.5" drive be fitted to
the model B? I am also intending to
use a 5.25" drive as well. Do I need a
special driver for it, and what is the
best 3.5" drive to use.
3) If and when I have fitted the 3.5"
drive, what is the best way to format
these discs. Is there any special
software for this purpose ?
4) Can data be transferred easily from
5.25" to 3.5" discs and is this done
in the same way as 5.25" to 5.25" on a
second drive.
5) Can hard drives be fitted to the
'B' and is it a worthwhile proposition
?
As you may have gathered I am a bit
green on this subject as I am only
just getting back into computers. The
last time I used one would be at
school over ten years ago.
Any help would be appreciated and I am
prepared to return postage costs and
any photocopying costs within reason.
You can send any info to:-
Rik Page
c/o 2 Church Farm
Snitterby
Gainsborough
Lincolnshire
DN21 4TY
Many Thanks in advance to any one who
can help me.
To: 999 (all members)
From: K3Y (Lorna Jenne)
Subject: Video Digitiser (Help!)
I have a Watford Digitiser which I
have been trying to use but have been
having problems. I am taking the
pictures from a Sanyo Video (about 5
years old) using a Scart lead to phono
plug to BNC socket. The lead is from a
Scart Video Kit and had been used to
copy tapes from my old Betamax (no
longer working) to VHS for use with
the Sanyo. The cable is about a metre
long and the Video lead is miniature
co-axial cable - which seems to be the
right type as per the Maplin Cat,1993
The picture is viewed on an old black
& white TV.The problem is that while I
have a clear picture on the TV using
my own or pre-recorded tapes when I
capture the picture to the monitor
screen it is often so covered with
lines/strips etc that it is just a
mess. I have tried with the tape
running, or paused, no difference.
I am doing all the setting of black &
white as per instruction book, but
with little or no improvement. Some
tapes produce better pictures than
others, but this does not depend on
the type of picture on the TV.
Any help would be most welcome
Lorna Jenne
53 Uffington Road.
West Norwood
SE27 0ne
0181 670 6665 (9am to 9.30pm during
the day is best)
53 Uffington Road
West Norwood
SE27 ONE
To: 999 (all members)
From: K3Y (Lorna Jenne)
Subject: Comms Software for Beeb
Can anyone offer any help, on what
Rom software is best to use on the
B+ or Master for accessing Bulletin
Boards. I have not had much success
using Terminal. I did manage using my
Archimedes using GrapeVine, but the
board I use has closed down. If I try
and access the Acorn User BB, I can
log on but if I try doing anything
else it all freezes up. (my A310 is
only Riscos 2).
Lorna Jenne 0181 670 6665
9.00am t0 9.30pm
From: 4WL (Martin Wilson)
Subject: Re-Ink
Does anyone know any company still
selling Re-Ink spray cans and at what
cost?
Also does anyone know a good source of
rarer ribbons.
I've got a Siemens Nixdorf ND48 and a
Olivetti DM124C and as you can imagine
its hard to find replacement ribbons
for them.
STOP PRESS: I've just found out that
the Siemens ND48 is really a Epson
LQ860 in disguise. So Siemens say
anyway and they should know. Mind you
I presume they mean the main
mechanism as I don't think they look
very similar externally.
From: 4WL (Martin Wilson)
Subject: Eizo monitors
Anyone use an Eizo monitor? Does it
have a 9pin D connector at the back
and do you have the manual?
I could really do with knowing the
pinouts as I've got a Eizo Flexscan
9400i (MA-2060) monitor but its
missing the monitor cable and I need
to make a lead.
I do collect pinout information myself
so if anyones got a monitor and
doesn't know the connections I may be
able to help especially Philips and
Microvitec.
One last question if a SVGA monitor
has two LEDS one marked Mode 1 and the
other Mode 2 and permanently on Mode
2 what does it mean? How do you select
Mode 1 and what does it do different
to Mode 2? Is it somehow selected by
the cable configuration. Possibly an
energy saving feature. Is mode 1 a
standby mode triggered by the computer
to save screen burn.