I'm looking to recase a B+ into a rack mount style case, and rather than break up my B+ wondered if anyone had a spare working B+ board and PSU? The PSU may not be essential as I can probably use the PC power supply with suitable mods.
sil wrote: > I'm looking to recase a B+ into a rack mount style case, and rather > than > break up my B+ wondered if anyone had a spare working B+ board > and PSU? The PSU may not be essential as I can probably use the > PC power supply with suitable mods.
Might be just me, but seems to be a recent resurgence in reviving this old hardware. Clearly this is the right place for such discussion, but it does tend to get lost in between discussions about much later hardware. Whilst the topic doesn't really interest me, perhaps someone ought to put together a comprehensive resource for such issues (I'm assuming there isn't one). riscos.info isn't really suitable for this, but perhaps somewhere else, and maybe also a mailing list for BBC repair, etc.
One of the problems I tend to find, is that an expanded BBC B setup can become quite unwieldy, once you add one or more external drives, co-processor boxes, etc you've lost a fair bit of kit on your desktop.
Being able to rack mount a unit with disks can be a great space saver, although I'd prefer to do it in a reversable way, so I can go back to original spec if necessary.
I'm not keen on emulation, which is of course another way to go, because the appeal of these old systems is the old systems themselves. Thats just my $0.02 though.
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sil <URL:mailto:twe-15...@kaspop.com> wrote: > I'm looking to recase a B+ into a rack mount style case, and rather > than > break up my B+ wondered if anyone had a spare working B+ board > and PSU? The PSU may not be essential as I can probably use the > PC power supply with suitable mods.
Sorry can't help with BBC B+ but we do have some NEW unused (but very old stock!) BBC Master motherboards.
Chris Evans
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On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:55:04 -0700, sil wrote: > Being able to rack mount a unit with disks can be a great space saver, > although I'd prefer to do it in a reversable way, so I can go back to > original spec if necessary.
sil wrote: > One of the problems I tend to find, is that an expanded BBC B setup > can become quite unwieldy, once you add one or more external > drives, co-processor boxes, etc you've lost a fair bit of kit on > your desktop.
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Sorry, what? The threading indicates you followed up my post, but you didn't quote any of my message, to indicate why it was relevant, nor did you appear to reply to any of the points I made. Please follow regular usenet convention and quote relevant parts of the original, thanks.
peter wrote: > (I'm assuming there isn't one). riscos.info isn't really suitable for > this, but perhaps somewhere else, and maybe also a mailing list for BBC > repair, etc.
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On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:44:36 +0100, Jonathan Graham Harston wrote: > peter wrote: >> (I'm assuming there isn't one). riscos.info isn't really suitable for >> this, but perhaps somewhere else, and maybe also a mailing list for BBC >> repair, etc.
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