Post pictures of your beeb setup

[brain]

Hi all,

I love to see how people set up their beeb environments, so to start the ball rolling i am posting a pic of my current setup. I am sure this is set to exapand, BITD when i lived at my parents place my beeb setup took over the entire desk and shelves, but then i didn't have PC equipment to contend with.

So, i've shown you mine, will you show me yours?

[sweh]

http://sweh.spuddy.org/Beeb/growing.html



(I should update this a little now I have Econet, video switch boxes, etc)

[brain]

blimey, my wife would probably flip out if i filled our bedroom with that much stuff!

Just look at the size of the power strip going up the side of that rack, lol

Nice haul sweh!

[sydney]

My stuff is usually boxed up and brought out when I use it. I'll post a photo on Monday but you can see it in use at Wakefield here

[denni505]

those pictures of your set ups are nice mine is a model b with dual drives and a turbo mmc just started to get to grips with it
getting a rs232 cable to use to transfer to beep and back got loads of floppys more to come through the post sorting them out at the moment got a few that throws up errors loads of education utils

[flaxcottage]

loads of education utils

[denni505]

just a update education utils and programs some say strathclyde region education division
and Cambridge uni a few have docs on got about 250 to sort out
take me awhile but not doing anything at the moment lol

[sydney]

those pictures of your set ups are nice mine is a model b with dual drives and a turbo mmc just started to get to grips with it
getting a rs232 cable to use to transfer to beep and back got loads of floppys more to come through the post sorting them out at the moment got a few that throws up errors loads of education utils

Search the forum and the internet in general for upurs, it's much faster than serial for transferring dfs floppies.

[denni505]

thanks just waiting to get wage then will pay for them also got dfs explorer just waiting for my code
were shall i put them when finished if anyone wants a copy can sort when all done

[CMcDougall]

still the sort of same as this:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1256&hilit=your+setup#p6821
but now all over the floor when kids /wife go to bed!

[danielj]

A temporary arrangement...

Need to have a think about how to add in two arcs, an elk and a c64...

d.

[tricky]

It seemed like a good idea at the time

It seemed like a good idea at the time :(

[aerworuld]

Here's my beloved Elk and all the various attachments

[denni505]

nice pity upside down lol

[aerworuld]

nice pity upside down lol

Looks right to me but then I'm on my phone hehe

[brain]

The forum software is ignoring the exif rotation data. If you click thru to the image it displays fine for me

[steve3000]

Sorry no beebs here, just a bunch of Arcs, although the beeb's 5.25" drive is visable. The beeb's are currently packed below our bed, which is in the other corner of the room

Steve

[DutchAcorn]

My beeb setup is basically quite modest.

But behind me is this:

No, that big tower is not a PC, it is just home to 2 SCSI harddrives and 2 SyQuest drives, for the Arc.

And next to me is this:

Lots of floppies

[brain]

DutchAcorn, nice, what external cheese wedge do you have plugged into the beeb?

[DutchAcorn]

DutchAcorn, nice, what external cheese wedge do you have plugged into the beeb?

It's a 6502 Second Processor.

[flaxcottage]

Sorry no beebs here, just a bunch of Arcs, although the beeb's 5.25" drive is visable. The beeb's are currently packed below our bed, which is in the other corner of the room
Steve

And you get away with that?

Mrs FlaxCottage won't have wires in the bedroom (unless it is to her DVD/TV set up )

The set up is very neat, though. Just like my man cave.

[KarateEd]

My setup is very humble....I after all live an ocean away from all the frantic Beeb action......

Ed......

[jgharston]

My main setup:


I also have a Master with 32016 CoPro and am A7000 in the basement. All Econetted to the MDFS server.

[brain]

My main setup:


I also have a Master with 32016 CoPro and am A7000 in the basement. All Econetted to the MDFS server.

Nice, what are those countdowns on the screens?

Also how rare is the 32016? I always wanted one as a kid...

[jgharston]

Nice, what are those countdowns on the screens?

To have something displayed on the screen, I used VTClock.

Also how rare is the 32016? I always wanted one as a kid...

I don't know how you measure "rareness". It's described as "the rarest" of Acorn second processors, but I would have thought the A500 was rarer as I thought only a few were made and used within Acorn to bootstrap development of the Archimedes.

[Advance]

http://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewto ... =11&t=4031

Maybe you'll have more luck getting Mr Haysman to show and tell his new playroom When I started this topic he was obviously too busy pulling the keyswitches off Elks to show but a single pic. Now he's gone ultrasonic he might have more time.
Hugh

[brain]

Advance, now that's a setup I would like to see

[Arcadian]

I don't know how you measure "rareness". It's described as "the rarest" of Acorn second processors, but I would have thought the A500 was rarer as I thought only a few were made and used within Acorn to bootstrap development of the Archimedes.

Aye, in terms of co-processor rarity I'd say the 32016 was in third place, with the ARM Evaluation system (estimated < 100 made) in second, with the most rare one being the A500 co-pro, as Jonathan suggests.

I have a fully-functioning A500 co-pro, which I acquired from Paul Fellows (ex-Acorn). At the time he mentioned that there only would have been 2-3 of these boards produced. I've only ever known of one other board in existence - the one listed on Chris Whitehead's page (which unfortunately is missing most of the chips): http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/8bit_Upgrad ... dProc.html

Edit: I should add that around 10 years ago I saw a 65C102 Co-Processor (i.e. the one used in the Master Turbo) in a Cheese Wedge go on eBay. The brown label across the front of the co-pro definitely said "65C102 Co-Processor" (i.e. it wasn't Acorn's "Universal" Co-processor case) and it's the only time I've ever seen one advertised for sale. So you could say this particular co-pro + case is even rarer than the 32016 and ARM Evaluation system - as I've seen several of each of those go on eBay. Unfortunately I didn't win the auction for the 65C102 box ...

[martinw]

Here's my "man/geek cave" as it stands at the moment, there are a few Acorn bits missing from the pictures under the desks (i.e. another 5 Beebs, another Master, another Electron with a plus 3, an Atom, among other things ) and I'm just waiting on my second external data centre for the Beeb on the desk (I know I'm greedy thank you Mark ) and they're all connected together on an Econet network

Martin

[martinw]

And my non Beeb kit, but equally useful

Martin