COW - Computer Originated World

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Hi Neil, good to see you here. Thanks for finding that video. My wife also showed me the switchover from the noddy to the COW on Facebook Reels. TVB Europe has covered the Welsh Cow: https://www.tvbeurope.com/live-productio...ve-to-1985

The BECG/Broadcast Engineering Museum will be getting a page in (I think) the April issue of TVB Europe.

Virtually all the faults in the COW at the Broadcast Engineering Museum have been failed 74LS377 chips. Since we still don't have extenders, diagnosis is not easy. I reckon it's got a recurring case of BSE

Neil, for posting pictures, one easy way is to go to "preview" and drag the image file into the box provided for the purpose.

I would like to publicly thank Neil for copying hundreds of EPROMs to files. I actually had to use one last week. I don't know when it went missing, but our COW didn't have one of the EPROMs in the test pattern part of sequence card #10. I managed to find a 27128 and burned a replacement. In fact a 27256 or 27512 (i have plenty of them) would have worked, putting the data in the top half or quarter.