[tech] Fwd: Re: BBC LV-ROM player

[Adrian Chadd]

If someone can transport it to SF then I can find a permanent home for it here?


-a


On 19 June 2017 at 11:03, Nick Bannon <nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 01:44:17PM +0100, Patrick Coleman wrote:
>> I can probably transport it for free to some combination of the UK or San
>> Francisco if it's packed into something <= suitcase sized. Unsure when I'll
>> be in Australia next, but hopefully in the next 3-4 months or so.
>> -Patrick
>
>> On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > hm, has anyone contacted the computer history museum here in the bay area?
>> > (I have a BBC master somewhere, but hm, doesn't it require some other
>> > interface thing?)
>
> Good to know!
>
> For reference, it's a Philips VP415/05, like this:
> http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/Domesday.html
>         http://archive.is/ViqK2
> http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/43817/Philips%20VP415/05%20LV-ROM%20Laserdisc%20Player/
>
> It would have been connected by 50-pin SCSI and genlocked video to a
> BBC Master Turbo, with a video filing system ROM.
>
> It's still here, stored on the west side of the clubroom. (opposite
> the door)
>
> Nick.
>
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