Information about MJPye.org.uk and the computer used here

MJPye.org.uk is part of the MJPye Network run by Matthew James Pye from Worcestershire, UK.

The MJPye Network currently has several working Acorn computers, the most recent one being a RiscPC 600 upgraded to StrongArm 202MHz. There is also a RiscPC 700 running RISC OS 3.60, an A5000, two A3020s, an A3010 and an A3000. As well as these RISC OS machines, there are also 4 BBC Masters, and a BBC model B.

The SA RiscPC has a StrongArm 202MHz processor, 64MB RAM + 2MB VRAM, 810MB IDE HardDisc, Sony IDE CD-ROM, a Power-tec SCSI card, 2GB external Conner SCSI HardDisc, i-cubed combo NIC, Atomwide triple serial port podule (removed), HCCS Vision 24 digitiser (removed), Mozart 16 bit sound upgrade and a second slice. It is running RISC OS 4.02. It also has a 486DX 100MHz PC card in it, which is running Windows 95. Currently connect via Serial is a HP DeskJet 500C. I did have a SCSI Mustek scanner, but this recently died.

The RiscPC 700 has an ARM 710 processor, 32MB RAM + 2MB VRAM, 400MB IDE HardDisc, 4speed IDE CDROM, Cumana SCSI card, i-cubed combo NIC and a second slice. The computer also have an x86 PC card in it, which was running Windows 3.11 and Windows 95 until I removed the hard disk that contained them. I'm hoping to revert this to a single slice machine to save space, but don't have any single height pins or a 2 slot back plane.

The A5000 has 4MB RAM, RISC OS 3.11, 81MB Hard disk, Castle SCSI card, i-cubed combo NIC, Watford hand scanner podule, Aleph1 PC 386/486 card, SCSI CDROM and SCSI MCD (Multimedia Cartridge Drive).

An Iyonix PC would be a nice addition to the collection, but at the moment I can't afford one. I was almost tempted by Castle's January Sale (Jan 2005), but the price still isn't quite low enough.

We also have several Windows PCs, the Main PC's specs are currently as follows: A7V333 (VIA KT333) RAID Mainboard, AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.6GHz 266MHz Bus) Processor, 512MB DDR PC2700 RAM, 2xMaxtor 120GB 7200rpm ATA133 Hard disks (RAID 0), 120GB 7200rpm ATA100 IBM Deskstar Hard Disk (total hard disk capacity 343GB), Matrox Millennium G450 32MB Dual Head Graphics Card, SoundBlaster Audigy 2, Pinnacle DC10+ Video Editing Card, Realtek RTL8139 Family 100MB PCI NIC, Freecom 16x DVD ROM, Freecom 32x10x40 CD RW, Sony DW-U18A 8x DVD +/-RW, Evesham branded PS/2 Keyboard, Microsoft Optical Internet Mouse, LG Flatron L1715S Analog 17" TFT with Microsoft Windows XP Pro (SP1). This machine is due to be replaced in the new few months.

This website is created in Microsoft FrontPage 2002 to save time, although it does seem to create some horrid code. MJPye.net is written by hand in notepad.

The RiscPC is connected to my Netgear DSL router and has full access to my ADSL connection.

You can contact me via e-mail to me@mjpye.net - More contact details available at www.mjpye.net