The Centre for Computing History has received some fantastic documentation, letters and newspaper cuttings regarding The Domesday Project.
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MITH's Vintage Computers
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) have opened up their own Vintage Computer museum
Acorn System 1 arrives at The Centre for Computing History
The System 1 was the first commercially available computer produced by CPU Ltd under the trading name of Acorn Computers Ltd. It was designed by Roger Wilson and marketed as the Acorn Microcomputer in 1979.
Computing History Addition – Olivetti M380/C
Olivetti 380/C Personal Computer used in the Pandora Project Machine type: XP 1050 Serial No: 3929437 1988 ME916 4MB RAM Card GO723 – HD/FD Controller
Yeah, but what pixels (NSFW)
The following article contains material that some people may find offensive. Please only follow the link if you don’t mind a little bit of 8-bit
The technology behind “Strike it Lucky” gameshow
Thanks to John of http://www.dirtyfeed.org/ he has scanned in a article from BBC Acorn User May 1990. The article describes the computer setup behind the
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
Sophie Wilson will be at the next meeting of ROUGOL
According to bbcmicro.com, Sophie Wilson will be at the next meeting of RISC OS User Group Of London on the 19th April 2010. From Bryan
Gadget show live 2010 – the story so far…
Today saw the end of day two of “Gadget Show Live 2010” at the NEC in Birmingham. And what a manic 2 days it has