Can you really get BBC News on a 40+ Year Old Acorn BBC Micro??

[@GlassTTY]

Great video glad you like Telstar and thanks for the 'shout out'. Seeing Le Modem in action was great as its one of the few I dont have.

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

I bought a ton of BBC stuff off someone local a while ago inc this issue 3 beeb and 'Le Modem' worked great! (After a re cap!!) Your Telstar system is just superb.

[@GlassTTY]

@@MatthewNorthMusic Thanks, did you try the Gateway and weather services? As an aside Telstar is still being developed and the next release is a complete rewrite this time in Go, so more services to come. Enjoy!

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

Not delved into it too deeply yet but will do soon too busy building things at the mo !!

[@connorgjere133]

Great video! Super cool to see that it still works and really cool channel!

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

Yes its very cool.

[@NathanGracie-Raitt]

Wow. Wasn't expecting to hear pulse-based dial sounds like @4:29, but in hindsight.... of course this all predates DTMF tones for phone dialling.

[@cdl0]

The modem has a standard RJ-11 telephone jack; however, it was forbidden to connect a modem to a BT line in the UK until some time after the first round of privatisation in 1984. All telephones were hard-wired to the line (no wall socket) until later in the 1980's, and had to be one of a few standard designs rented from BT, or the Post Office before the split in about 1982.

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

everyone had non approved modems and phones back then!!

[@cdl0]

@@MatthewNorthMusic Many rural folk had to suffer operator connected calls, so no modem for them. I had a three-digit number until well into the 1980's. There is still no mobile signal where I live, and the latest application for a mast was refused on the grounds it would be out of keeping with the area. Internet here is 6 Mb/s.

[@eliotmansfield]

very good

[@peymanx]

thanks for sharing 👍

[@Havanacuba1985]

Outstanding video Mathew , love my old 8 bits , wish I’d bought a bbc in the 80s , I always ended up with duds like the dragon 32 Enjoyed the Sinclair stuff the most . Didnt get a c64 til 89 when the price had come down to about £50 second hand . I was also foolish enough to buy a new Sony MSX around 85 on sale in Dixon’s , should have got a bbc .

[@rebeccamacgregor549]

Do you still have your Dragon? There is a lively retro scene for them too.

[@marchughes6161]

yeah great computer , great T-shirt 😄🙌

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

You Know it Dilly Dilly 😀🎸

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

0:16 wasnt it called macros? When the blackberry got hacked?

[@M0DB0Y]

Matthew have you ever sampled any sounds on a BBC? I'm getting back into programming. Need some better sounds for my games and music too.

[@ngbarnes]

The 'Le Modem' is not very common, and hasn't been documented. Any chance of you scanning the manual? I'd also like to see the internals of the modem to understand how it works, which UART, modem, dialler parts are in there.

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

Alot has changed since past few years, as they know i had to go through everything

[@rebeccamacgregor549]

Very cool. Are the calls expensive? I especially loved the pulse dialing and the Marillion t-shirt.

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

its a national call so not on for too long! google the telstar website.

[@meh3247]

My second computer was a Beeb. Great machine to learn programming on - shame programming turned out to be such an exploitative career.

[@Multiwizard]

A few years ago I played a bit with my Acorn Teletext Wedge, it was indeed great fun... :-D The Dutch Teletext is still active... :-D kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGWtYmmsbJKBjcU

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

Wow thats amazing.

[@BF4pawntard]

I clearly remember going online with a bbc micro at school in 1986 . Way before the internet became full of twats

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

You probably had an Econet network

[@ms-ex8em]

do u or any1 else know of a book which has got Grand Prix listing in basic ?? for the Dragon 32 ?? many thanks ive been looking since 1983 for this particular book i cannot recall what it was called though many thanks...........

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

Sadly no, I only ever knew one person with a dragon back in the day.