All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #3, Saturday 16th May 2020, 9am - 9pm. Supporting CCfCH. 50 attendees max. NOW FULL!

[jgharston]

Should I be concerned that I watched the Wurzels video all the way through?

Not a patch on the Grumbleweeds.

(ducks, runs....)

[dominicbeesley]

Thanks to everyone again. I'm looking forward to the videos as I missed some of the afternoon.

We got our stuff from the ccfch gift shop today. Very happy except I got done over at top trumps by a 5 year old

[Kazzie]

I'm sorry I couldn't manage to attend for longer, but grumpy kids and a tetchy internet connection put paid to it in the end. I did really enjoy the talk on Steve Furber's Prototype (JudgeBeeb, maybe we could call it the "Furbertron"? ), as it mirrors the Acorn System stuff that I'm dabbling in at the moment. While restoring it to full working order may be unfeasible, I'd love to help reverse-engineer it, should I ever get down to a physical meet down there.

(did you guys notice you have an accent?)

Mine's a funny old mix of North-Walian, hints of Cardiff, and a generous dash of Torontonian, and is now accumulating bits of Derbyshire dialect from my wife and her family. It swings a lot depending on who I'm talking to and where I am: the last time I spend a month out in Toronto, when I came back my wife (fiancée at the time) said "what's happened to your vowels"!

We got our stuff from the ccfch gift shop today. Very happy except I got done over at top trumps by a 5 year old

Has she swiped the mug off my desk at work while I've been away?

[Dave Footitt]

Yes thoroughly enjoyable afternoon, thanks to everyone who did a presentation, clearly so much work had gone into them and it was great to see something so interesting and at a technical level I was interested in!

[Arcadian]

Sorry for the delay in sharing these links; the talks from the virtual event on the 16th May were uploaded to the Centre for Computing History's Youtube channel earlier in the week. Here's a handy playlist featuring all 10 talks.

The videos are also available via the new abug.org.uk domain.

[richardtoohey]

Looks like a good collection of videos with more to come!

Many thanks

[jgharston]

Add me. I'll probably be working on adding Trig/Log to PDP11 BASIC if I've found my "orange book"* by then.

*I can't remember what it's called, something like Introduction to Digital Computing, it has algorithms for various arithmetic computational functions. If not, I'll be falling back on Salas Hille and Anderson.

I think I might have found online my "orange book" that I used to write the arithmetic code in PDP11 BASIC, the cover certainly looks right, but How much, Granville????