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[Marks DTM Calib]

The RS data library was a prize possesion.........and bloody expensive.

Whe I was working at Alstom (13 years ago?), it was the RS 50th anniversary (or similar) of thier catalogue being available and they were offering a magnum of champagne to anybody who had a copy of the first one (tiny little paper back thing)........we found 11 at work!

You get realy bored of champagne after that much and realise just how crap it is!

[TheBoy]

LOL, the resources I had were the Craplins catalogue and an out of date RS catalogue  

[Taxi_Driver]

The RS data library was a prize possesion.........and bloody expensive.

Whe I was working at Alstom (13 years ago?), it was the RS 50th anniversary (or similar) of thier catalogue being available and they were offering a magnum of champagne to anybody who had a copy of the first one (tiny little paper back thing)........we found 11 at work!

You get realy bored of champagne after that much and realise just how crap it is!

Think ive still got a set somewhere......2 red A4 binders iirc....unless I chucked them out  :-/

[Kevin Wood]

The RS data library was a prize possesion.........and bloody expensive.

Whe I was working at Alstom (13 years ago?), it was the RS 50th anniversary (or similar) of thier catalogue being available and they were offering a magnum of champagne to anybody who had a copy of the first one (tiny little paper back thing)........we found 11 at work!

You get realy bored of champagne after that much and realise just how crap it is!

Think ive still got a set somewhere......2 red A4 binders iirc....unless I chucked them out  :-/

That's the one.

Kevin

[jereboam]

A BBC micro and an acoustic modem didn't really cut the mustard,

Is my memory playing tricks, or was there at one point a software/hardware kit you could get for the BBC micro which would let you use it as limited functionality oscilloscope?

[Kevin Wood]

A BBC micro and an acoustic modem didn't really cut the mustard,

Is my memory playing tricks, or was there at one point a software/hardware kit you could get for the BBC micro which would let you use it as limited functionality oscilloscope?

It had analogue inputs but the conversion rate was too slow to do anything serious with - other than watch the weather. I do have a feeling someone made an external fast analogue interface, though.

Kevin

[TheBoy]

A BBC micro and an acoustic modem didn't really cut the mustard,

Is my memory playing tricks, or was there at one point a software/hardware kit you could get for the BBC micro which would let you use it as limited functionality oscilloscope?

Yup, but it was shite

[TheBoy]

A BBC micro and an acoustic modem didn't really cut the mustard,

Is my memory playing tricks, or was there at one point a software/hardware kit you could get for the BBC micro which would let you use it as limited functionality oscilloscope?

It had analogue inputs but the conversion rate was too slow to do anything serious with - other than watch the weather. I do have a feeling someone made an external fast analogue interface, though.

Kevin

We had some stuff that plugged into the 'tube' (think thats what it was called) port that made it pretty good (for its time)