User:Framboise Pye

Original BBC B Microcomputer owner (the week before Charles and Di got married!) Took ages to arrive. Learnt to code 6512 machine code, assembly language and BBC Basic... since mostly forgotten. The ability to directly address the VGA chip came to the attention of TV engineers - because it could replicate problems that regularly arise when troubleshooting TV equipment! The book that specified all the tricks you could simulate addressing each different VGA register I still possess - in pristine order. My BBC B, on the other hand, just hangs when I start it, sad to say. I have even thrown out all the TVs which I could have used as monitors!!! Now, the most technical I get is adding a Matrox TripleHead2Go to my Monster Computer!