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Mingle with legends for ?78

GeoffGeoff
edited April 2012 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
The BBC Micro team are celebrating 30 years this weekend and you can get to ARM's HQ party for ?78

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/03/19/bbc_micro_design_team_to_celebrate_historic_machines_30_years/

Mingle with Chris Curry, Herman Hauser, Sophie Wilson, Steve Furber, Nick Toop, Andy Hopper, Chris Turner and Allen Boothroyd.

Swap yarns with Richard Russell, John Radcliffe and Chris Serle.

Not invitation only like the 25 year bash.

10 GO TO Cambridge
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  • fogfog
    edited March 2012
    "Dress code : Smart casual."

    that cuts me out then ;) hehe
  • Paddy ColemanPaddy Coleman
    edited March 2012
    Geoff wrote: »
    The BBC Micro team are celebrating 30 years this weekend and you can get to ARM's HQ party for ?78

    http://www.reghardware.com/2012/03/19/bbc_micro_design_team_to_celebrate_historic_machines_30_years/

    Mingle with Chris Curry, Herman Hauser, Sophie Wilson, Steve Furber, Nick Toop, Andy Hopper, Chris Turner and Allen Boothroyd.

    Swap yarns with Richard Russell, John Radcliffe and Chris Serle.

    Not invitation only like the 25 year bash.

    10 GO TO Cambridge

    May be Sir Clive should throw a Sinclair party! Obviously the tickets will only be available by mail order and will turn up late (not in the 28 days stated). ;-)

    Mind you the tickets will be black, look more sexy and cost less than half the price of the BBC ones. :lol:

    And it would definately be a "black tie" event and Jet Set F****** Willy is not invited. :-)

    Paddy
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited March 2012
    I almost bought a ticket until I saw Chris Serles name...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • fogfog
    edited March 2012
    karingal wrote: »
    I almost bought a ticket until I saw Chris Serles name...

    he was at VCF didn't you go , wasn't too far for ya ?
  • perini-psperini-ps
    edited March 2012
    We've asked Sir Clive if he wants to come to our event (this one). Fingers crossed...


    Paddy Coleman wrote: »
    May be Sir Clive should throw a Sinclair party! Obviously the tickets will only be available by mail order and will turn up late (not in the 28 days stated). ;-)

    Mind you the tickets will be black, look more sexy and cost less than half the price of the BBC ones. :lol:

    And it would definately be a "black tie" event and Jet Set F****** Willy is not invited. :-)

    Paddy
  • WinstonWinston
    edited March 2012
    I wanted to go to the Beeb event but with the costs of staying in Cambridge (there seems to be a dearth of bed and breakfasts that charge reasonable rates) added to the cost of actually getting to Cambridge from here, it just got slightly too expensive. My retro travel budget priority is for Speccy stuff and events where I get to be an exhibitor.
  • GeoffGeoff
    edited April 2012
    People seem to have got their ?78 worth.

    BBC MicroMen scripts and props were on display, a ZX Spectrum emulator and lots of people and talks.

    Here is Hermann Hauser with his overview of waves and computer evolution. the two people startup that became ARM ( same number of transistors as a Z80)
    and some anecdotes about Sinclair and that cutting of the umblical cord moment in Micro Men.



    Lots of stuff online just search for Beeb@30
  • bversteebverstee
    edited April 2012
    Tickets should cost ?48...
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited April 2012
    Geoff wrote: »
    BBC MicroMen scripts and props were on display, a ZX Spectrum emulator and lots of people and talks.
    Which Spectrum emulator was it?
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • GeoffGeoff
    edited April 2012
    karingal wrote: »
    Which Spectrum emulator was it?

    It was Fuse on the Raspberry Pi

    http://connecteddigitalworld.com/2012/03/26/a-slice-of-raspberry-pi-at-beeb30/

    A nice picture of the team and Chris Serle here

    http://beeb30.havnet.positive-internet.com/

    The site that had photos of the Micro Men scripts is down (British IBM) but it didn't have the page with "Jet Set ****ing Willy" :-)
  • GeoffGeoff
    edited April 2012
    Talking of Micro Men, John Mathieson of Flare Atari Jaguar had a small appearance via this historic insert posted by the knowledgable QLvsJaguar



    John is the guy in front of the curtain in the grey suit. Seems he got a trip to Japan with the Prime Minister as a perk of working at Sinclair Research Ltd.

    The demo looks like the microdrive demos and the text says

    with
    o high resolution graphics
    o eight colours
    o sound generator
    o extended BASIC

    MIA :-)
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