BBC's Historic Mainframe Arrives!! (Quantel Paintbox DPB 700

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BBC's Historic Mainframe Arrives!! (Quantel Paintbox DPB 700

Post by RetroGamerVX » Mon Aug 20, 2012 3:58 pm

Hi all,

Some really good news that I've just had, very kindly donated to me, a Quantel DPB 7000 mainframe computer from around 1988 (system age) This was a pioneering broadcast computer graphics system and this particular one came out of the BBC Studios at Ellstree! The system still has much of it's original 8 inch floppies with it that contain files belonging to Eastenders etc and it's believe there are more on the hard drive once it's powered up :o)

Anyway, I've done a video on my channel, so please have a look and leave any technical advice / comments you wish :o)

Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw0Uv6Nk7m4

Best regards

Steve[/url]

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