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True to his word, Alan, produced the ammended program for the BBC. First trial, did not go successful at first, until Alan advised to lift the front edge up of the BBC up a couple of centimetres and then drop it. After which, much to Owain's delight - it worked - the new system proved popular and was used during 1995-96, running on an old 286 with no harddisc. | True to his word, Alan, produced the ammended program for the BBC. First trial, did not go successful at first, until Alan advised to lift the front edge up of the BBC up a couple of centimetres and then drop it. After which, much to Owain's delight - it worked - the new system proved popular and was used during 1995-96, running on an old 286 with no harddisc. | ||
[[Image:OwainsScheduler.png|right|thumb|160px|Diary view scheduling introduced]] | |||
In a split role, the DOS code also included a simple driver for [[Tank UMatic]] which had been modified to include a set of wires in parallel with the front panel play/rewind/stop buttons, in principle allowing tapes to be scheduled out of hours. However, this was never seen to be working and support was later removed, leaving all hardware in control of the BBC Micro. | In a split role, the DOS code also included a simple driver for [[Tank UMatic]] which had been modified to include a set of wires in parallel with the front panel play/rewind/stop buttons, in principle allowing tapes to be scheduled out of hours. However, this was never seen to be working and support was later removed, leaving all hardware in control of the BBC Micro. | ||