Freecycle Comes Good

[TheNeil]

OK so it's not exactly a Mac (well it's in no way a Mac in any sense and has no connection with Macs, Apples, Cupertino or Lord Jobs) but picked up a cardboard box last night through Freecycle. So, for zero cash, I scored...

BBC Micro Model B

Manuals

5.25" disk drive (with all cables to hook it up)

A box of used 5.25" disks (sadly all dull database and office type stuff - no games )

A box of shrink-wrapped 5.25" floppy disks

As if that wasn't enough, the little chap double-beeped straight into life. It was like being seven years old all over again

 

[Bunsen]

Waaaaaahhhhh :'(

 

[MacMan]

Nice one! A good place to look for tape games is charity shops, I've scored dozens of them over the last few years for very little money. I always think of the BBC having a connection with Macs because when I was at school there was generally one BBC and one Mac (LC, Classic or similar) in each classroom. I'm pretty certain that the first computer I ever used was a BBC Model B.

 

[TheNeil]

Nice one! A good place to look for tape games is charity shops, I've scored dozens of them over the last few years for very little money. I always think of the BBC having a connection with Macs because when I was at school there was generally one BBC and one Mac (LC, Classic or similar) in each classroom. I'm pretty certain that the first computer I ever used was a BBC Model B.

The price was right so I couldn't resist

I also like the Mac connection (although the first, and only, computer at my school was a Beeb - No Macs in sight :'( )(then again, this before the Mac was released so maybe that would explain why...) so I'll say that that justifies me posting about it

 

[Bunsen]

Don't they use the same CPU as the //s?

 

[MacMan]

Don't they use the same CPU as the //s?

Yep, they're 6502 based.

 

[Dennis Nedry]

It's also used in various Commodores and Ataris. The Nintendo has one too although its packaged differently.