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From: Jim on 10 Jun 2010 09:32 On 2010-06-10, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-06-10, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> 1) You what? > > There's an event at Bletchley Park on the 19th and 20th June - the Bletchley > Park Vintage Computer Festival. There's going to be at least one ex-Acorn > person there. Specifically Sophie (Roger) Wilson, co-designer of the BBC micro. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: address_is on 10 Jun 2010 12:19 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-06-10, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >> On 2010-06-10, Rowland McDonnell > > <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >>> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>> 1) You what? >> >> There's an event at Bletchley Park on the 19th and 20th June - the > > Bletchley >> Park Vintage Computer Festival. There's going to be at least one > > ex-Acorn >> person there. > > Specifically Sophie (Roger) Wilson, co-designer of the BBC micro. Sophie roger Wilson is quite an unusual name. I guess their parents were hedging their bets on that one -- Woody
From: Jim on 10 Jun 2010 12:31 On 2010-06-10, <address_is(a)invalid.invalid> <address_is(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >>>> 1) You what? >>> >>> There's an event at Bletchley Park on the 19th and 20th June - the >> > Bletchley >>> Park Vintage Computer Festival. There's going to be at least one >> > ex-Acorn >>> person there. >> >> Specifically Sophie (Roger) Wilson, co-designer of the BBC micro. > > Sophie roger Wilson is quite an unusual name. I guess their parents were > hedging their bets on that one Born Roger, than had a small-but-significant operation. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Ian Piper on 10 Jun 2010 12:28 On 2010-06-10 14:32:32 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> said: >> There's an event at Bletchley Park on the 19th and 20th June - the Bletchley >> Park Vintage Computer Festival. There's going to be at least one ex-Acorn >> person there. Ooh, that's one for me. Thanks for mentioning it. 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: Chris Ridd on 10 Jun 2010 12:29
On 2010-06-10 17:19:30 +0100, <address_is(a)invalid.invalid> said: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >> On 2010-06-10, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >>> On 2010-06-10, Rowland McDonnell >>> <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >>>> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> [snip] >>>> >>>> 1) You what? >>> >>> There's an event at Bletchley Park on the 19th and 20th June - the >>> Bletchley >>> Park Vintage Computer Festival. There's going to be at least one >>> ex-Acorn >>> person there. >> >> Specifically Sophie (Roger) Wilson, co-designer of the BBC micro. > > Sophie roger Wilson is quite an unusual name. I guess their parents were > hedging their bets on that one No, she changed gender at some point after designing the BBC micro. She was born Roger Wilson. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson> -- Chris |