Tank Umatic - Revision history

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	The Tank Umatic was probably the oldest Umatic player owned by YSTV. From around 1994/95 it had the job of playing adverts to network and was controlled by the [[Grapevine]] BBC computer. It did not have great looks and was treated with little reverence as it made an ideal footrest for whoever was operating the graphics computer (BBC or Amiga) in the control room. The BBC was dislodged from [[Grapevine]] duties during 1996 and control was handed over to the already established [[BBC Schedula]] which at the time was using a PC as the front end. [[Owain Davies]] attempted to incorporate the control of the Tank into the program running on the PC by using the parallel port as the method for device control. This should have been a relative simple task, but for some unknown reason it was unsuccessful.		The Tank Umatic was probably the oldest Umatic player owned by YSTV. From around 1994/95 it had the job of playing adverts to network and was controlled by the [[Grapevine]] BBC computer. It did not have great looks and was treated with little reverence as it made an ideal footrest for whoever was operating the graphics computer (BBC or Amiga) in the control room. The BBC was dislodged from [[Grapevine]] duties during 1996 and control was handed over to the already established [[BBC Schedula]] which at the time was using a PC as the front end. [[Owain Davies]] attempted to incorporate the control of the Tank into the program running on the PC by using the parallel port as the method for device control. This should have been a relative simple task, but for some unknown reason it was unsuccessful.
	[[Image:199507-- goodricke-studio owain-davies.jpg\|thumb\|800px\|Control room in the summer of July 1995, the tank can just be seen under the control desk]]		[[Image:199507-- goodricke-studio owain-davies.jpg\|thumb\|800px\|Control room in the summer of July 1995, the tank can just be seen under the control desk]]
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Dummy User: spelling: "oldest" not "eldest"

2007-07-02T16:02:08Z

spelling: "oldest" not "eldest"

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	The Tank Umatic was probably the ~~eldest~~ Umatic player owned by YSTV. From around 1994/95 it had the job of playing adverts to network and was controlled by the [[Grapevine]] BBC computer. It did not have great looks and was treated with little reverence as it made an ideal footrest for whoever was operating the graphics computer (BBC or Amiga) in the control room. The BBC was dislodged from [[Grapevine]] duties during 1996 and control was handed over to the already established [[BBC Schedula]] which at the time was using a PC as the front end. [[Owain Davies]] attempted to incorporate the control of the Tank into the program running on the PC by using the parallel port as the method for device control. This should have been a relative simple task, but for some unknown reason it was unsuccessful.		The Tank Umatic was probably the oldest Umatic player owned by YSTV. From around 1994/95 it had the job of playing adverts to network and was controlled by the [[Grapevine]] BBC computer. It did not have great looks and was treated with little reverence as it made an ideal footrest for whoever was operating the graphics computer (BBC or Amiga) in the control room. The BBC was dislodged from [[Grapevine]] duties during 1996 and control was handed over to the already established [[BBC Schedula]] which at the time was using a PC as the front end. [[Owain Davies]] attempted to incorporate the control of the Tank into the program running on the PC by using the parallel port as the method for device control. This should have been a relative simple task, but for some unknown reason it was unsuccessful.
	[[Image:199507-- goodricke-studio owain-davies.jpg\|thumb\|800px\|Control room in the summer of July 1995, the tank can just be seen under the control desk]]		[[Image:199507-- goodricke-studio owain-davies.jpg\|thumb\|800px\|Control room in the summer of July 1995, the tank can just be seen under the control desk]]
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2007-06-04T18:01:05Z

add to category

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	The Tank Umatic was probably the eldest Umatic player owned by YSTV. From around 1994/95 it had the job of playing adverts to network and was controlled by the [[Grapevine]] BBC computer. It did not have great looks and was treated with little reverence as it made an ideal footrest for whoever was operating the graphics computer (BBC or Amiga) in the control room. The BBC was dislodged from [[Grapevine]] duties during 1996 and control was handed over to the already established [[BBC Schedula]] which at the time was using a PC as the front end. [[Owain Davies]] attempted to incorporate the control of the Tank into the program running on the PC by using the parallel port as the method for device control. This should have been a relative simple task, but for some unknown reason it was unsuccessful.		The Tank Umatic was probably the eldest Umatic player owned by YSTV. From around 1994/95 it had the job of playing adverts to network and was controlled by the [[Grapevine]] BBC computer. It did not have great looks and was treated with little reverence as it made an ideal footrest for whoever was operating the graphics computer (BBC or Amiga) in the control room. The BBC was dislodged from [[Grapevine]] duties during 1996 and control was handed over to the already established [[BBC Schedula]] which at the time was using a PC as the front end. [[Owain Davies]] attempted to incorporate the control of the Tank into the program running on the PC by using the parallel port as the method for device control. This should have been a relative simple task, but for some unknown reason it was unsuccessful.
	[[Image:199507-- goodricke-studio owain-davies.jpg\|thumb\|800px\|Control room in the summer of July 1995, the tank can just be seen under the control desk]]		[[Image:199507-- goodricke-studio owain-davies.jpg\|thumb\|800px\|Control room in the summer of July 1995, the tank can just be seen under the control desk]]
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Dummy User: picture of tank

2007-05-22T00:17:18Z

picture of tank

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	The Tank Umatic was probably the eldest Umatic player owned by YSTV. From around 1994/95 it had the job of playing adverts to network and was controlled by the [[Grapevine]] BBC computer. It did not have great looks and was treated with little reverence as it made an ideal footrest for whoever was operating the graphics computer (BBC or Amiga) in the control room. The BBC was dislodged from [[Grapevine]] duties during 1996 and control was handed over to the already established [[BBC Schedula]] which at the time was using a PC as the front end. [[Owain Davies]] attempted to incorporate the control of the Tank into the program running on the PC by using the parallel port as the method for device control. This should have been a relative simple task, but for some unknown reason it was unsuccessful.		The Tank Umatic was probably the eldest Umatic player owned by YSTV. From around 1994/95 it had the job of playing adverts to network and was controlled by the [[Grapevine]] BBC computer. It did not have great looks and was treated with little reverence as it made an ideal footrest for whoever was operating the graphics computer (BBC or Amiga) in the control room. The BBC was dislodged from [[Grapevine]] duties during 1996 and control was handed over to the already established [[BBC Schedula]] which at the time was using a PC as the front end. [[Owain Davies]] attempted to incorporate the control of the Tank into the program running on the PC by using the parallel port as the method for device control. This should have been a relative simple task, but for some unknown reason it was unsuccessful.
	[[Image:199507-- goodricke-studio owain-davies.jpg]]		[[Image:199507-- goodricke-studio owain-davies.jpg\|thumb\|800px\|Control room in the summer of July 1995, the tank can just be seen under the control desk]]

Dummy User: picture of tank

2007-05-22T00:10:09Z

picture of tank

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	The Tank Umatic was probably the eldest Umatic player owned by YSTV. From around 1994/95 it had the job of playing adverts to network and was controlled by the [[Grapevine]] BBC computer. It did not have great looks and was treated with little reverence as it made an ideal footrest for whoever was operating the graphics computer (BBC or Amiga) in the control room. The BBC was dislodged from [[Grapevine]] duties during 1996 and control was handed over to the already established [[BBC Schedula]] which at the time was using a PC as the front end. [[Owain Davies]] attempted to incorporate the control of the Tank into the program running on the PC by using the parallel port as the method for device control. This should have been a relative simple task, but for some unknown reason it was unsuccessful.		The Tank Umatic was probably the eldest Umatic player owned by YSTV. From around 1994/95 it had the job of playing adverts to network and was controlled by the [[Grapevine]] BBC computer. It did not have great looks and was treated with little reverence as it made an ideal footrest for whoever was operating the graphics computer (BBC or Amiga) in the control room. The BBC was dislodged from [[Grapevine]] duties during 1996 and control was handed over to the already established [[BBC Schedula]] which at the time was using a PC as the front end. [[Owain Davies]] attempted to incorporate the control of the Tank into the program running on the PC by using the parallel port as the method for device control. This should have been a relative simple task, but for some unknown reason it was unsuccessful.
			[[Image:199507-- goodricke-studio owain-davies.jpg]]

Dummy User: tank umatic details

2007-05-21T23:59:38Z

tank umatic details

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The Tank Umatic was probably the eldest Umatic player owned by YSTV. From around 1994/95 it had the job of playing adverts to network and was controlled by the [[Grapevine]] BBC computer. It did not have great looks and was treated with little reverence as it made an ideal footrest for whoever was operating the graphics computer (BBC or Amiga) in the control room. The BBC was dislodged from [[Grapevine]] duties during 1996 and control was handed over to the already established [[BBC Schedula]] which at the time was using a PC as the front end. [[Owain Davies]] attempted to incorporate the control of the Tank into the program running on the PC by using the parallel port as the method for device control. This should have been a relative simple task, but for some unknown reason it was unsuccessful.