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From: Pd on 19 Jun 2010 13:15 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > <http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk/VCF2010/index.html> > > Not great pictures, but a very enjoyable day out. Still on tomorrow if > anyone's insterested. I had a Sanyo quite similar to that Commodore portable (5897), but with twin vertical disk drives. That Superbrain reminded me of the TRS-80 Model III I used to program cash registers in the early 80s. I really had no sense of the big picture back then - computers were exciting and fun, but I was too stupid to see trends. I had one of the first IBM-PCs at work, phenomenally expensive, but no idea that they would become such a dominant system. I remember the feeling when I first met a Lisa, and then took a Macintosh back to my hotel room overnight (whoar). I knew then that I simply must have one of these incredible machines. That 40's Digital Clock looks really steampunk. -- Pd
From: jim on 19 Jun 2010 13:16 SteveH <italiancar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> <http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk/VCF2010/index.html> >> >> Not great pictures, but a very enjoyable day out. Still on tomorrow > > if >> anyone's insterested. > > Wow. > > Dragon 'Professional'. > > Want. > > Really badly want. Me too. I made an offer that was, basically, the contents of my wallet including credit cards, but they were oddly unforthcoming. I don't think they believed me... Jim -- Sent from Jim's iPad
From: Ian Piper on 19 Jun 2010 13:35 On 2010-06-19 16:36:42 +0100, jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) said: > <http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk/VCF2010/index.html> > > Not great pictures, but a very enjoyable day out. Still on tomorrow if > anyone's insterested. > > Jim You must have been standing next to me :-) http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/2842974/1/Bletchley%20Park%2020100619?h=6d019f It was a real walk down memory lane... I saw an example of more or less every computer I've owned or enjoyed using: an Apple II, an original Mac, a PowerBook 180, an Amstrad 1512, a Sinclair QL (working unlike my old pile of junk), an Acorn 3010 (a lovely computer), loads of BBC micros, a DEC MicroVAX(!), a PDP11, an Apple Lisa (if I could only get my hands on one of these), a surprising number of Commodore PETs, even old calculators (my old Sinclair Cambridge - well, not exactly mine, you understand, but one just like it), and so on. The Enigma and Lorenz exhibits were very good. I have to say that BP in general is a huge improvement over the way it was when I first went there 7 or 8 eight years ago. They've put a lot of work in and spruced it up a lot. They could still do more I think, but money must be a big issue. They actually have a GCHQ exhibit now, with a peculiar photo showing an Enigma machine morphing into a PowerBook. What *can* they mean by that? Ian. -- Ian Piper Author of "Learn Xcode Tools for Mac OS X and iPhone Development", Apress, December 2009 Learn more here: http://learnxcodebook.com/� --�
From: Ian Piper on 19 Jun 2010 15:01 On 2010-06-19 17:12:19 +0100, Adrian C <email(a)here.invalid> said: > On 19/06/2010 16:36, Jim wrote: >> <http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk/VCF2010/index.html> >> >> Not great pictures, but a very enjoyable day out. Still on tomorrow if >> anyone's insterested. >> >> Jim > > Also, there's an Amateur Radio rally planned there on the August bank > holiday weekend (Sunday 29th August 2010) > > http://www.mkars.org.uk/rally.html > > Plenty of computer wreaks (equipment and visitors) will turn up there > as well - and me. I'm a computer wreak. There was a marquee there today that was something to do with a local radio club. Ian. -- Ian Piper Author of "Learn Xcode Tools for Mac OS X and iPhone Development", Apress, December 2009 Learn more here: http://learnxcodebook.com/� --�
From: smurf on 19 Jun 2010 15:21
Jim wrote: > <http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk/VCF2010/index.html> > > Not great pictures, but a very enjoyable day out. Still on tomorrow if > anyone's insterested. > > Jim The Atari with the wooden trim, so classy, it brings a tear to my eye. An iphone networked app of Tanks is surely now long overdue. http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk/VCF2010/Pages/80.html |