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Are BBC Micros or other Acorn machines generally available outside of the UK? I don't recall having seen one on eBay in the US (at least, not when I went lookin
by salgernon 9y ago
Are BBC Micros or other Acorn machines generally available outside of the UK? I don't recall having seen one on eBay in the US (at least, not when I went looking..) I would imagine 80s systems were designed to use PAL rather than digital output?
- digi_owl 9y agoNot just designed. IIRC, C64 games often ran slower on the European variant. This because the CPU clock had to be synced with the video output.
- myelin 9y agoI've seen a few from US-based sellers on eBay, but most are in the UK. Pretty much everyone I've met in the USA with Acorn hardware grew up in the UK and moved here. I use an RGB-to-HDMI converter (this one -- https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2553/acorn-electron-to-vga-hdmi/2968#2968 https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2553/acor... ) and connect my BBC and Electron up to a normal HDMI monitor. The native video format is 1-bit RGB with TTL levels, with a 50Hz refresh rate (possibly interlaced -- I forget).
- jburgess777 9y agoThere was a special US variant of the BBC Model B but not many were sold: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/33658/US-BBC-Micro-(UNB09)/ http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/33658/US-BBC-Micro-(U... http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/BBCBUS.html http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/BBCBUS....