Date   : Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:48:31 +0100
From   : joel@... (Joel Rowbottom)
Subject: Wakefield Acorn Show Redux

Hi all --

For those of you who couldn't make it, here's what you missed out on:
  <http://photos.jml.net/p57783227.html>

The show was a *lot* better attended this year, there were even a few 
Econet bits on the charity stall (tho not much else 8-bit). Lots of 
interest in the CF card drive so I think Mark can expect a few emails, the 
Econet stayed up the entire time, and the Domesday only needed one reboot 
when the player itself crashed.

We found out during the day that domesday1986.com has disappeared, 
therefore I am resolved to step up my preservation efforts.

JGH demo'd his relocatable module stuff for the ARM7 by getting BBC BASIC 
running under a Z80 emulator on an ARM7 hosted by a Beeb, I'm sure it can 
get more convoluted than that but I'm not sure by how much!

I promise next time we'll have Chuckie Egg running (both myself and Ian had 
a go at fixing it but to no avail), although Granny's Garden and Podd were 
popular.

Special mention to JGH, whose power supply exploded and smoked in a rather 
spectacular fashion, threatening to fill the exhibition hall with acrid 
smoke. Be interesting to see if that'll work again.

Final note: a rather nice chap showed up with a brown A4 envelope of 
goodies - an *unused* Domesday submission kit including teachers' notes, 
two 5.25" floppies for compiling a school's Domesday pages, pupil notes and 
user manuals. Both myself and Ian took immediate copies of the floppies but 
I will make available DSD files of these if anyone wants a looksee, and 
scan in the documentation.

I'll write a proper report at http://blog.joel.co.uk when I get chance, but 
for the moment I need to wire my Econet back up and set the Northern side 
of the Community Disc copying to CF :)


j