Thanks to the Peter(fibble) over at the stairwaytohell.com BBC Micro forums, he gave The Centre for Computing History a Bush IBX200. The internet service hosted by Bush and Virgin.net is no longer available – so the box is quite useless…. or is it?
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RCM Gaming Event / Open Day – October 31st 2010
RCM are proud to announce their 5th Retro Gaming Day Venue is:- The Institute, Main Street, Swannington, Coalville LE67 8QL Date and Time:- Sunday 31st October 2010
Addition – BBC Model A 16k
Managed to pick up a rather special machine last week – a BBC Model A. It looks like this one has not been upgraded as
Vintage Computer Festival 2010 – What a weekend!
Last weekend saw the first Vintage Computer Festival in the UK. It was hosted at Bletchley Park by The National Museum of Computing. Over the
Sinclair ZX80 playing Space Invaders at VCF 2010
Here is a video of a real Sinclair ZX80 computer playing Space Invaders at the Vintage Computer Festival 2010 at Bletchley Park. You can see that the screen does not flicker when a key is pressed.
Vintage Computer Festival 2010 is this weekend!
This weekend (19th and 20th June) sees the Vintage Computer Festival visiting the UK for the very first time.
Computer list update
I’ve just updated my list of computers to include the following machines. RM 380Z Commodore PET 4032 A couple of machines have also been removed.
Addition – Research Machines 380Z
I have been donated a fantastic ‘little’ machine today. I’ts a Research Machines 380Z. This machine is based on the Z80 CPU running at 4mhz.
Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ PBS Executive IV
Computing history have a new and interesting addition to their collection – the Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ PBS Executive IV. ZX Spectrum+ planning started in June
Vintage Computer Club – Wattisfield Meeting 17th July 2010
Sean from http://vintagecomputerclub.org.uk/ is organising their first meetup. Here are the details from the clubs website. I may be able to attent this meetup myself. For