Limelight for the STC Executel
It looks like our STC Executel has found a well deserved bit of limelight on the New Scientist website. < See Here > It's part of an article about how valuable computer museums are and that they need to be supported. I totally agree. Anyone wanting to support The Centre for Computing History would be very welcome! Please contact them ...Posted 24th September 2009 | (0 Comments)
Apple Mac Rescue Mission
What a nightmare :-( An original Apple Mac that we hired to a TV company has thrown a wobbly. They are shooting tommorrow and they came to set it all up today ind it wouldn't boot from the floppy disk. I had to drive down to London with a Mac Plus as a backup and a couple more boot disks. When I got there, it didin't want to boot from the disk supplied, so I tried the replacement that I bought with no joy. I tried the other replacement and it booted. WHY????? The disks were all the same !!! Hey ho, it least it worked. Fingers crossed it'll work when they film tommorrow ...Posted 22nd September 2009 | (0 Comments)
Back from Retro Reunited
Had a great weekend at the Retro Reunited & Acorn Word event. I took displays on behalf of the Centre for Computing History but the event was on the first floor so had to carry everything up two flights of stairs. Nightmare!!!Had the great pleasure of listening to a presentation made by Steve Furber of Acorn / ARM / Spinnaker fame. I recently interviewed him for the museum, but his presentation complimented the interview quite nicely. I have filmed it for release on the museum website very soon ...
See : Retro Reunited and Acorn World Show Report
Posted 15th September 2009 | (0 Comments)
T3 Toys
Sent off a load of retro gadgets today to T3 magazine. They're doing a feature of the top 50 most important gadgets or something along those lines. Hopefully they'll add a paragraph about the museum too ...Posted 8th September 2009 | (0 Comments)
Steve Furber Interview - Now Online
My interview with Steve Furber is now online. Its being really well recieved and some great comments posted but our server is taking a bit of a hammering!! 45Gb in 2 days Oucho!! Click the image below to give it a watch ...
Posted 4th September 2009 | (0 Comments)
Cash in Your Gadgets
Been on the phone today to GS talking about a feature to be in one of the forthcoming episodes. They'll be talking about old gadgets that you have in the loft that are now worth a few quid on places like eBay. It'll feature the ZX80, the first iPods, Commodore LED watch and Speak & Spell amoungst others. I put the Speak & Spell in the mix because although they don't fetch a massive amount they are abused for circuit bending which I thought might make for an interesting feature ...Posted 2nd September 2009 | (0 Comments)
Apple Mac 128
A TV company has asked for an original Apple Mac running System 1.0. They're doing a documentary for BBC2 about design classics. It poses a bit of a problem as our Mac 128 has no system disks and they're practically impossible to download. Hopefully one of the other volunteers at the museum will be able to pull something out of the bag. Where there's a will theres a way!!!
Posted 1st September 2009 | (0 Comments)