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Some people clearly have more storage space than I do! Restoring a 1960s BBC OB truck, which means this is a mixture of the usual dismantling-siezed-wheel-hubs with fixing and recalibrating CCUs...
to bbc broadcast mechanica ob restoration ... on 23 November 2014
Canadian Military Pattern Home Page edit / delete
Restoring a Canadian (Land-Rover-ish) military vehicle used by the BBC at the end of WW2. Then another two of them, presumably because once you've figured out how to take one of them apart...
to bbc car mechanica restoration retrotech vehicle ... on 23 November 2014
Old BBC Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories - Home Page edit / delete
Impressively comprehensive site about BBC facilities up to the 1980s -- including a detailed tour of Broadcasting House as originally built.
to audio bbc broadcast electronics london radio recording retrotech studio ... on 23 November 2014
Ian Bell's BBC Elite Page edit / delete
Source code for the BBC version of Elite.
Documentation on Acorn Computers edit / delete
Lots of Acorn technical documentation -- I found some useful stuff about ADFS here.
to acorn archimedes arm bbc documentation retrocomputing riscos ... on 05 January 2014
Elite: Claims about numbers sold etc. (very poorly researched Guardian article from very poorly researched material by Francis Spufford) edit / delete
Criticism of the oft-repeated rubbish about Elite selling more copies than there were BBC Micros.
to acorn ag0700 bbc elite games history retrocomputing sales ... on 15 December 2013
Exile disassembly edit / delete
The classic BBC Micro game.
to 6502 acorn bbc exile retrocomputing reverse-engineering ... on 14 December 2013
Delia Derbyshire Audiological Chronology edit / delete
The site the Wiki is being built from; this also gives a quick overview of her recorded works. I was pleased to discover that I've actually got some I wasn't aware of on BBC effects tapes that came from Sevenoaks Library...
to bbc delia-derbyshire electronic history music ... on 24 March 2013
Spectacularly comprehensive Wiki about Delia Derbyshire -- e.g. a catalogue of all her papers and works. Fascinating stuff.
to bbc delia-derbyshire electronic history music ... on 24 March 2013
regregex.bbcmicro.net edit / delete
Various BBC Micro stuff -- including a neat package of tools for working with UUencoded files, and doing things like sending a UUencoded disk image over the serial link. Also Opus DDOS patches.
to acorn bbc dos electron imaging retrocomputing software ... on 31 January 2013
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tasty by Adam Sampson.