480z system disk on ebayu

[Jules Richardson]

Witchy wrote:
> On Mon, October 3, 2005 5:05 pm, Jules Richardson said:
> 
>>Oh, it's worth keeping an eye out for a Nimbus Domesday system by the
>>way. They did exist, although I don't know of any survivors anywhere.
>>Other than that there's nothing really special about the Nimbus
>>hardware, it got boring after the 480Z days! (there's actually nothing
>>special about the Domesday Nimbus, except nobody seems to remember what
>>model of SCSI controller it needed)
> 
> 
> Given that I've got 2 Nimbus machines (nimbii? :) is this something I
> could build if we find out which SCSI controller was used?

I *think* so. The necessary software's in my loft back home (I assume 
it's the equivalent of the VFS ROM on the Beeb). I haven't found out how 
the trackerball connects yet, or if the Nimbus version even supported it 
(might have been keyboard-only, although there was a BBC User Port board 
available for the Nimbus)

Pete Chilvers *might* have a Nimbus with *a* SCSI controller; it's worth 
giving him a shout. Whether it's the right board is another question.

Adrian Pearce (who did the National Archives Domesday data conversion 
from the Beeb) is also trying to get a Nimbus version up and running, so 
picking his brains too would be worthwhile.

If you can wait until I'm back in the UK next month I can lay my mits on 
the software, manual, and all the relevant emails I'd scraped together! :)

(by all accounts the Nimbus version of the software isn't a patch on the 
BBC one by the way, so don't get too excited ;)