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Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter

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In article <jcka0j$646$1@speranza.aioe.org>, Someone Somewhere
<nntpac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/12/2011 08:08, Tim Hill wrote:
> > In article<mpro.lw7nuq00001hi00za@ypical.nospam.invalid>, Fred
> > Bambrough <fred@[127.0.0.1]>  wrote:
> >> In message<4ee8ee01$0$2498$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr>  Rick
> >>       Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
> >
> >>> On 14/12/2011 18:17, Graham Thurlwell wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>>> icon on the icon bar. Later A3000s were branded as Acorn.
> >>>>> I'm pretty certain they weren't!
> >>>
> >>>     Pictures, or it didn't happen.
> >
> [Different snip to make quoting more relevant]
> >
> > Can't you people use a search engine?  ;-)
> >
> > BBC A3000 with BBC logo:
> >
> > http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Computers/A3000.html
> >
> The question was that some A3000s were purely Acorn branded,  not that
> they were BBC branded (or that they had dual Acorn and BBC branding)

Well, that wasn't clear to me,  obviously.

Particularly as they were ALL branded as Acorn! Hard to read things that
aren't there. Oh, that above means "Later A3000s were branded [ONLY] as
Acorn". It maybe what was meant but it doesn't say that.  :-p

I misread what was miswrote, sorry.

ISTR that some export models also had more internal metal shielding to
meet foreign RF emission standards so they weren't exactly the same on
the inside were they? I daresay a difference in external labelling may
have been helpful to them. Weren't later UK models sprayed with metallic
paint on the inside or somesuch? Or was that the A3010? What about the
A3000 PSU? Was that different for different countries? And what about the
60Hz TV mob? Were there other hardware differences too? Labels seem
almost unimportant by comparison even though most nationalities would
associate BBC with Auntie Beeb and not an obscure (sorry!) Swiss BBC
engineering firm which likes to think it could have been mistaken as the
specifier and promoter of a BBC Micro, but didn't want to be associated
with it (outside the UK) in case it flopped. I think our BBC and Acorn
should have stuck to their guns and merely agreed not to market the
things in Switzerland, rather than sticking only to the Empire, where --
on labels at least -- BBC Micro was usually spelt out in full words
anyway.

Anyone who has an A3000 doesn't need a bitmap editor to 'photoshop' a
fake not-a-BBC-Microcomputer image, just remove the label or obliterate
the Owl with something else. A felt pen or a playmobile person perhaps.
:-)

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The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-11-30 20:09 +0000
  Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> - 2011-11-30 22:10 +0000
    Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-11-30 22:20 +0000
      Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Graham Thurlwell <nospam@jades.org> - 2011-12-12 17:04 +0000
        Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-13 06:19 +0100
          Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Graham Thurlwell <nospam@jades.org> - 2011-12-14 17:14 +0000
        Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2011-12-14 10:31 +0000
          Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-14 15:28 +0000
          Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Graham Thurlwell <nospam@jades.org> - 2011-12-14 17:17 +0000
            Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter charles <charles@charleshope.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-14 17:27 +0000
            Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-14 19:42 +0100
              Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Fred Bambrough <fred@[127.0.0.1]> - 2011-12-14 20:35 +0000
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2011-12-14 21:02 +0000
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Martin Wynn <m.wynn@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-12-14 21:56 +0000
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter charles <charles@charleshope.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-14 21:06 +0000
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-15 07:21 +0100
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2011-12-18 08:08 +0000
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Someone Somewhere <nntpac@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 08:59 +0000
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2011-12-18 09:50 +0000
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-20 06:15 +0100
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2011-12-24 12:47 +0000
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Steffen Huber <spam@huber-net.de> - 2012-03-20 15:51 +0100
          Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Steffen Huber <spam@huber-net.de> - 2011-12-15 11:29 +0100
            Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2011-12-15 10:50 +0000
              Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2011-12-15 12:41 +0000
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Tony Moore <old_coaster@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-15 13:12 +0000
            Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter charles <charles@charleshope.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-15 10:32 +0000
            Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Steffen Huber <spam@huber-net.de> - 2012-03-20 15:52 +0100
              Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Harriet Bazley <bazley@feathermail.co.uk> - 2012-03-28 13:38 +0100
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-28 14:19 +0000
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter John Kortink <kortink@inter.nl.net> - 2012-03-28 17:38 +0200
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-28 20:44 +0000
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter John Kortink <kortink@inter.nl.net> - 2012-03-29 01:25 +0200
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Steffen Huber <spam@huber-net.de> - 2012-04-09 17:29 +0200
                Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter John Kortink <kortink@inter.nl.net> - 2012-04-09 19:32 +0200
  Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-01 07:17 +0100
    Re: The BBC Micro turns 30 on The Regsiter Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2011-12-01 10:28 +0000

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