RiscPC 30th Birthday at ROUGOL, Mon 15th April 2024

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This month's meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be:

RiscPC 30th Birthday, party time!
Monday 15th April 2024, 7.45pm

The Duke of Sussex (upstairs in the Chichester or Petworth Room from 6.30pm)
23 Baylis Road, London, SE1 7AY
https://rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html

Also online via Zoom from 7.30pm.

https://rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/index.html

In a bit of fortuitous timing, this month’s ROUGOL meeting coincides with the 30th birthday of the RiscPC, which was launched on 15th April 1994. We will be having a party (well, drinks and food, we are in a pub after all) to celebrate its legacy and/or whinge about its failings.

The direction of the meeting is very much up to you. What are your memories and stories about the RiscPC. Were you (like me!) at the launch event in the Cumberland Hotel near Marble Arch in London? Did you have any unusual uses, special software or hardware? Do you still have a RiscPC in use because it’s doing a particular job which can’t be transferred to a modern RISC OS machine? Sibelius springs to mind, but there are bound to be other custom systems still going.

We should have a RiscPC in the pub (if anyone can bring one to save me lugging mine on the bus, let me know!) for everyone to play with. Feel free to bring along your own kit too, or if you can’t make it to the pub, show it off over Zoom. Please reply below if you plan to bring/show something. You will have to provide your own birthday cake!

RISCOSitory published an excellent article on the history of the RiscPC for its 20th birthday which is well worth a read – https://www.riscository.com/2014/happy- ... ay-riscpc/

Our venue is right next to Waterloo Station and there is parking directly outside. Directions here - https://rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html

For any queries or to receive the Zoom link (same as previous months) contact us – https://rougol.jellybaby.net/contacts/

Bryan.

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Reminder this is tonight. We have some interesting inside information on the development process of the RiscPC to share, plus some rare hardware and software on show.

Join us in the pub if you can, so I’m not wasting my time carrying my RiscPC there!

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Happy Birthday RISCPC

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