Date   : Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:17:21 +0100
From   : joel@... (Joel Rowbottom)
Subject: Wakefield Acorn Show - 25th April

This sorta describes what I'm up to at the Wakefield Show. I'll probably
have a few curiosities there but it does depend on how much time I get
between now and then... believe it or not I've just started working at Pace
in Mike Cook's department (yes, *that* Mike Cook)!

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Do you remember the BBC Micro? Long for the days where you whiled away the
hours playing Elite and Chuckie Egg? If the answer is 'yes', then make sure
you pay a visit to the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Show on 25th April.

Enthusiast and collector Joel Rowbottom will be displaying an interactive
museum of Acorn hardware from the 1980s; giving you the opportunity to play
the games you remember, on the machines you once owned.

The centre-piece of the exhibition is the BBC Domesday Project, an rare
interactive snapshot of life in 1985 compiled by schools across the British
Isles. It is one of a handful of surviving laserdisc systems incorporating
photos, video and narrative to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the
original Domesday Book.

"The Domesday Project is always popular with visitors," says Joel.
"Frequently we find contributors who were 7 years old when it was written,
who can now finally see work they participated in over 20 years ago."

Also on show will be a working Acorn Econet network and a selection of BBC
computers from 1981 through to 1988.

For more information contact... etc.etc.

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