Acorn 8 Bit Machine Motherboard Scans

From Chris Richardson
8-Bit Software
The BBC and Master User Group and Public Domain Library
17 Lambert Park Road
Hedon
Hull
HU12 8HF
UK

01482 896868

chris@8bs.karoo.co.uk
http://www.karoo.net/8bs


Presently there are 7 scanned images of motherboards available.

1. BBC B
2. BBC B with Econet
3. BBC B+
4. Electron and Electron Power Converter
5. Master 128
6. Master Compact


Scanning the motherboards was a tricky affair as three of them were larger than the scanner. I got around this by scanning in 2 stages. Then joining the two halves together. Unfortunately the joins show sometimes. There was also a problem with the BBC B+ that it would not lie flat on the scanner due to the 64K RAM board stood on end at one edge. This caused a bit of distortion. With a lot of jiggery pokery in Corel Paint I managed to get everything to more or less fit.

Smaller versions of these images are to be found on the 8BS website where I have mapped them and linked them to descriptions of individual components on the boards. Unfortunately a lot of definition has had to be lost on the smaller versions to speed up loading time.

Many thanks to Robert Schmidt of The BBC Lives! for hosting these large files.

Chris Richardson