Summer of '82 'Birthday Party' event at the Centre for Computing History

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tjewell
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Summer of '82 'Birthday Party' event at the Centre for Computing History

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Hi all! I'm organising an event for the Centre for Computing History to celebrate all the wonderful machines that went on sale in 1982 (this is part of their "Summer of '82" season). So that's the Spectrum, the C64, the Dragon 32 and many others - and the BBC Micro too! Yup, I know it was launched in 1981, but it didn't ship until January, so we think that counts :)

So ... we're looking for exhibitors, and what we'd really like to show is how these machines were used - and are still used. We'd love to find people who are still producing hardware and software for the Beeb, or any of the other systems from 1982. Memory upgrades, video enhancements, floppy disk emulators, you name it. We'd love to see systems full of period and modern enhancements.

There's more details here - http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/ ... -festival/ - if you've not exhibited before, these events are pretty laid back, a great opportunity to meet other enthusiasts and normally followed by beer and pizza. And even if you don't have anything to exhibit, please come along, meet us and help support the museum too!

Cheers, Tony
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Busy time that weekend. It's the WROCC 2022 show in Wakefield on the Saturday, 21 May.
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I would be interested and have been on display there before ;)
I make and port early 80s arcade games to the beeb as well as making a couple of joystick, paddle and ps/2 trackball adapters to go with my MMC adapters.
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I see the event is still on tomorrow - I noticed some photos from today posted over here:
https://retrochat.online/@jonn_blanchar ... 0838374202

Quite the variety of machines - Leako anyone?

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/ ... -May-2022/
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A fabulous array of machines that’s for sure. I’m not sure I’ve seen that variety together in the same room since the Computer shows of around 82/83 at Earls Court. That was a great day out in those days as well :D
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Just got back home after an excellent day out, lots of photos of machines from '82.

Met a few familiar faces, and also met a few new faces, plenty of good chat all round, top day out!
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