On the way back from my holiday in Devon, I took the opportunity to pop into the Museum of Computing in Swindon. The museum is
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Cassette 50: the interview
I found this interesting interview with one of the developers who had one of his games included in the Cassette 50 games tape. I’m pretty
The Centre for Computing History gets a BCL Susie
Last week, The Centre for Computing History added a BCL Susie to the museums collection BCL Susie (Stock Updating Sales Invoicing Electronically) used a magnetic
RISC OS on the Bush IBX200 Internet.tv box
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?
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
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.
Retro computer of the day – Toshiba HX-10 MSX
Old-Computers.com says the following about this machine. The HX-10 was a classic MSX 1 computer with no special feature… But it was one of the