BBC Micro Export edition: information drop

[@mikeh_nz]

Excellent work! Very interesting. I’m in the states I wonder if I’ll ever see a USA Beeb appear on eBay? Meanwhile I’ll continue with my childhood uk one.

[@danielflakelar8193]

Awesome. Somehow one of these found its way to Australia, Had it on the bench in front of me and well..... It was a bit of a mess. Some of the Links and Jumpers were not fitted but act the correct way (Video cct). It was putting out pal I not NTSC or Pal BG. Interesting is the row of sockets for tape and RGB etc are hard sockets on this one not flyleads like yours.

[@nigelsretroworkshop]

The ones with fixed sockets at the rear are usually the standard model rather than export.. Check the printed part number on the pcb, mine is 223,000 issue 1. Also the serial number on the underside of the case might help if it's still there

[@G7VFY]

Didn't the USA version have the speech system as standard?

[@nigelsretroworkshop]

Yes, with an American accent. When they re-imported them the UK phrom was swapped in.

[@74Gee]

I remember typing something like * config lang 11 on one of those and it really buggered it up.

[@nigelsretroworkshop]

You're probably thinking of the BBC Master.

[@74Gee]

@@nigelsretroworkshopYes you're right, it was indeed. It was my lunchtimes and break times as a first year in high school sneaking into the computer lab that solidified my life long passion in computers. A couple of other things I used to use was `* remote 254`, `* prot ???` Sadly they expelled me before I could get to the third year (when we were allowed to use computers), something to do with making explosive compounds and improving my arch nemesis's test scores beyond the realm of possibility. I'm 49 now and I've spent around 150k hours totally enamored with computers. I just hope I'm not too old for the certainty of AI confinement escape. Thanks for the memories Nigel :)