What are the really unusual or weird computers?

Rob robert at irrelevant.com
Sun Jul 1 17:01:47 CDT 2007


On 01/07/07, Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 23:57 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:

> > You can get later than that, even sticking with the ARM chip. I am pretty
> > sure the Bush internet set-top box has BBC BASIC In ROM (I forget the key
> > combination to get the '*' prompt, but it'll be on the web somewhere).
>
> It does; I have one and I've had BBC Basic out of it.  Apparently if
> you've got a parallel-port Zip disk you can boot plain ordinary RiscOS
> on it.  Good fun.  Internally it's basically an Arm development board
> with a few unpopulated sockets.

Ooh. I never knew that - the number of those I've ignored as
uninteresting...  I'll have to snag the next one (and the next zip
drive) I see...

So.. How do I add an econet interface to it?  ;-)

Rob


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