Date   : Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:49:03 -0500
From   : jules.richardson99@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Beeb articles on BBC Online

Tim Matthews wrote:
> There will be an Acorn exhibition at the Science Museum in 2009.

That's interesting to hear!

> Sophie was there - great stories from her about building the prototype 
> while the Charles and Di wedding was on!! And about how the machine existed
> only in her head when Hauser promised to show the BBC something. 

I had a good chat with David Allen a few months ago - he had a lot of 
interesting stuff to tell about those days (including the vastly different 
attitudes between Acorn and Sinclair)

> There were
> about three Atoms, three Electrons, a few Model Bs, some Masters and an
> Archimedes. They also had the secondary CPU unit

I think tNMoC supplied all the hardware, but I'm not sure which copro was sent 
in the end. I was trying to get the powers-that-be to send the System One too, 
but by the sounds of it that didn't happen - it seems weird to me not to have 
the 'first' on display as part of the event!

Did the Domesday system not make it? That was supposed to be there, too.

Consider me grumpy at being too far away to be able to attend :-) I'm not 
really into the CCS goings-on most of the time, but this is one I would have 
liked to have gone to.

cheers

Jules