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The BBC and Master Computer Public Domain Library

Master Compact Welcome Guide
OCRed by Martin Hodgson

This is the BBC Master Compact Welcome Guide Scanned by Chris Richardson, OCRed and converted to HTML by Martin Hodgson.

Each HTML file corresponds to one page of the Guide, the file name corresponding to the page designations in the guide.

The original order is as follows :

Addendum 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Addendum 11                  
Cover (Title) page 1                  
Contents 1 2 3              
Foreword 1                  
Introduction 1                  
A A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 A10
A A11 A12 A13 A14            
B B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10
B B11 B12 B13 B14 B15 B16 B17 B18 B19 B20
C C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10
C C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20
C C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30
C C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36 C37 C38 C39 C40
C C41 C42 C43 C44 C45 C46 C47 C48 C49 C50
C C51 C52 C53 C54 C55 C56 C57 C58 C59 C60
C C61 C62 C63 C64 C65 C66 C67 C68    
D D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 D10
D D11 D12 D13 D14 D15 D16 D17 D18 D19 D20
D D21 D22 D23 D24            
E E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8 E9 E10
E E11 E12 E13 E14            
F F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10
F F11 F12 F13 F14 F15 F16 F17 F18 F19 F20
F F21 F22 F23 F24            
G G1 G2 G3 G4            
Appendix 1 1-1 1-2                
Appendix 2 2-1 2-2 2-3 2-4 2-5 2-6 2-7 2-8    
Appendix 3 3-1 3-2 3-3 3-4 3-5          
Appendix 4 4-1 4-2 4-3 4-4 4-5 4-6 4-7 4-8    
Appendix 5 5-1 5-2 5-3 5-4 5-5          
Appendix 6 6-1 6-2 6-3 6-4 6-5 6-6 6-7 6-8 6-9  
Appendix 7 7-1 7-2 7-3 7-4            
Appendix 8 8-1 8-2                
Appendix 9 9-1 9-2 9-3 9-4            
Appendix 10 10-1 10-2                
Appendix 11 11-1 11-2 11-3              
Index 1 2 3 4 5          

 

A note concerning readability of these HTML pages: Browsers on the 32 bit Acorn computers (RISC PC etc.) default to the Corpus (Courier) and Trinity (Times) fonts. Given those fonts (built into the OS) and the Acorn font display technology, these pages are very clear and easy to read (tested in Oregano and WebsterXL).

On Widows PCs, using Internet Explorer v.6, Widows 68 SE, and MS display technology, the picture is nowhere near so clear (literally). MSIE defaults to the acceptable Courier as the 'TT' font, but does not seem to have access to a decent body text font.

If you do have more fonts installed than the basic set I strongly suggest you try some of the others (on the Tools menu select the General tab, click Fonts).

The main text on the page should be clearly differentiated from that text which the book is saying you type in, e.g. the programming examples. On Apple Macs I am not able to advise. I would expect them to be better than Windows PCs.

Martin Hodgson


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