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MITH's Vintage Computers

22nd September 201011th March 2019

Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) have opened up their own Vintage Computer museum

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Yeah, but what pixels (NSFW)

1st September 2010

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

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The technology behind “Strike it Lucky” gameshow

8th August 20108th June 2020

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

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Addition – BBC Model A 16k

12th July 2010

Managed to pick up a rather special machine last week – a BBC Model A. It looks like this one has not been upgraded as

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Sophie Wilson will be at the next meeting of ROUGOL

18th April 201010th January 2021

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

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Gadget show live 2010 – the story so far…

8th April 20105th July 2017

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

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Acorn Electron World reviews Micro Men

26th February 20105th July 2017

Micro Men, a film about Sir Clive, inventor of the Sinclair Spectrum, and Chris Curry, inventor of the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, didn’t immediately

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Acorn speech system – audio sample

25th February 2010

Iv’e finally managed to have a play with the Acorn Speech system on my BBC Model B. Ive had these chips installed for some time,

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A few new machines added

2nd February 2010

Ive picked up the following machines over the last few days. They are Atari 800 BBC Model B with Econet Z80 Co Processor for the

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RetroClinic DualOS for the BBC Master 128k

1st December 200926th April 2020

I installed the “RetroClinic DualOS” for the BBC Master 128k today. The DualOS Master Board from RetroClinic replaces the original 1Mbit ROM on the BBC

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