Date   : Mon, 08 May 2006 22:39:25 +0100
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Back in circulation

Philip Pemberton wrote:
> In message <445E7D39.9080505@...>
>           Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> wrote:
> 
>> Mark Usher wrote:
>>>>> See you at Wakefield next weekend!
>>>> Indeed you will. Any other listmembers going?
>>> Ooh, that is just down the road.... Err I had missed out on it, what
exactly
>>> is happening there etc?
>> I didn't know when it was either. Any old 8 bit stuff there, or is it
just a 
>> modern trade fair? If there are "real" 8 bitters there I'll make an ef
fort to 
>> go next time around!
> 
> <http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/>
> 
> Put simply, it's the biggest Acorn / RISC OS show in the north of Engla
nd.
> 
> Apparently "Witchy" from BinaryDinosaurs is going to be there with his
> Domesday machine. 

He's got a nice LVROM player that's marked as being from Philips' labs in
 the 
Netherlands; unfortunately no details are available as to what possibly 
interesting story it had behind it.

 > The charity stall is usually worth a look - there's often a
> bit of 8-bit kit there hidden in with the RISC OS hardware.

Any other shows coming up soon? I'd quite like to get all my stuff out of
 the 
cupboard and dust it off - I'm only in the UK from the middle of next mon
th 
for about three months, though.

> No BBC micros
> though, thanks to the WEEE regs and the bar-steward^W nice chap who dum
ped a
> load of 486 PCs at the stall that WROCC had to pay to dispose of...

Grr!

> You've just missed the deadline for advance tickets, but they sell them
 for
> £6 on the door anyway so no biggie...

Well I'll be 4000 miles away anyway... :)

>> If it's just a 32 bit event - anyone up for an 8 bit equivalent one da
y? I'm 
>> sure I could swing something at Bletchley in the future where people w
ould be 
>> able to run their own stands with their own kit if they wanted....
> 
> That would be neat - I've got a few hardware projects planned for this
> summer, a few based around my Master 128. I might consider getting a st
and
> set up if it all comes to fruition. 

Well it's certainly the sort of thing we should be doing - and the space
is 
there; we'd have to swing it with the Park Trust though, but hopefully th
ey'd 
see the publicity benefits of it rather than taking a short-term profit v
iew 
of things and trying to charge people for having a stand! Nothing can rea
lly 
happen for a couple of years; this year things are flat-out working on th
e 
national comp. museum, and next year will just be an exercise in feet-fin
ding 
I expect! :-)

> Not 100% sure if I could make it down to
> Bletchley (I'm in Leeds) but it sounds like it could be quite fun.

No transport? One of our guys lives in Leeds and comes down to help out 
occasionally; maybe something could be worked out when the time comes...

cheers

Jules