The Micro Museum, Ramsgate.

[Stephen Cole]

I visited The Micro Museum in Ramsgate today:

https://www.vintageapplemac.com/the-micro-museum-at-ramsgate-in-kent-uk/

A neat little place to add to your list of days out, and bang in the middle
of town too so easy to loop in with the beach, harbour and other Ramsgate
delights. Their Games Gallery area is closing next week (31st) and folding
back into the main museum, so if you have time with the kids to kill next
Saturday or Sunday here’s your answer.

--
M0TEY // STC
www.twitter.com/ukradioamateur

[Stephen Cole]

Sorry, I meant Friday or Saturday! Last day of Games Gallery exhibition is
Saturday 31st August.

[Wm]

this group is largely unused, silly boy

[Folderol]

Doesn't mean people aren't watching it.

--
W J G

[John Hall]

In message <qk8ckt$lrb$1...@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o...@yahoo.co.uk>
writes

But not totally unread.
--
John Hall
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come
sit next to me."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

[Wm]

On 29/08/2019 19:58, Huge wrote:
>> In message <qk8ckt$lrb$1...@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o...@yahoo.co.uk>
>> writes
>>> On 27/08/2019 06:20, Stephen Cole wrote:
>>>> Stephen Cole <use...@stephenthomascole.com> wrote:
>>>>> I visited The Micro Museum in Ramsgate today:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.vintageapplemac.com/the-micro-museum-at-ramsgate-in-kent-uk/
>>>>>
>>>>> A neat little place to add to your list of days out, and bang in the middle
>>>>> of town too so easy to loop in with the beach, harbour and other Ramsgate
>>>>> delights. Their Games Gallery area is closing next week (31st) and folding
>>>>> back into the main museum, so if you have time with the kids to kill next
>>>>> Saturday or Sunday here’s your answer.
>>>> Sorry, I meant Friday or Saturday! Last day of Games Gallery
>>>> exhibition is
>>>> Saturday 31st August.
>>>>
>>> this group is largely unused, silly boy
>

> Still ably justifying your killfile entry, I see.

Apparently not, you replied.

> Besides, what the
> fuck has it got to do with you?

STC has often said which groups he thinks ought to exist and ought not
to exist.

--
Wm

[Wm]

On 29/08/2019 16:34, John Hall wrote:


> But not totally unread.

Does anyone know where the conversation has moved too?

--
Wm

[Wm]

On 29/08/2019 14:02, Folderol wrote:

>> this group is largely unused, silly boy
>>
> Doesn't mean people aren't watching it.
>

I may be wrong but my records suggest we are looking at years rather
than days or months since this group last had a good conversation.

--
Wm

[Wm]

On 29/08/2019 19:58, Huge wrote:

>> In message <qk8ckt$lrb$1...@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o...@yahoo.co.uk>
>> writes
>>> On 27/08/2019 06:20, Stephen Cole wrote:
>>>> Stephen Cole <use...@stephenthomascole.com> wrote:
>>>>> I visited The Micro Museum in Ramsgate today:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.vintageapplemac.com/the-micro-museum-at-ramsgate-in-kent-uk/
>>>>>
>>>>> A neat little place to add to your list of days out, and bang in the middle
>>>>> of town too so easy to loop in with the beach, harbour and other Ramsgate
>>>>> delights. Their Games Gallery area is closing next week (31st) and folding
>>>>> back into the main museum, so if you have time with the kids to kill next
>>>>> Saturday or Sunday here’s your answer.
>>>> Sorry, I meant Friday or Saturday! Last day of Games Gallery
>>>> exhibition is
>>>> Saturday 31st August.
>>>>
>>> this group is largely unused, silly boy
>

> Still ably justifying your killfile entry, I see. Besides, what the

> fuck has it got to do with you?
>
>
>
>

It has occurred to me that I don't know who Huge is, I don't recall him
(probably, women tend not to call themselves that) having a positive or
prominent posting record in this ng.

So what?

--
Wm

[John Hall]

In message <qkarlu$v12$1...@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o...@yahoo.co.uk>
writes

>On 29/08/2019 16:34, John Hall wrote:
>
>
>> But not totally unread.
>
>Does anyone know where the conversation has moved too?
>

Given the limited number of people interested in vintage computers, it
may not have moved anywhere. I certainly don't recall ever seeing a
"heads up" from anyone saying that they had created a forum for the
subject. (And even forums seem to increasingly be viewed as being old
hat nowadays, having largely given way to Facebook, Twitter and - most
recently - Discord.)

[Charles Lindsey]

On 30/08/2019 16:44, John Hall wrote:
> In message <qkarlu$v12$1...@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o...@yahoo.co.uk> writes
>> On 29/08/2019 16:34, John Hall wrote:
>>
>>
>>> But not totally unread.
>>
>> Does anyone know where the conversation has moved too?
>>
>
> Given the limited number of people interested in vintage computers, it may not
> have moved anywhere. I certainly don't recall ever seeing a "heads up" from
> anyone saying that they had created a forum for the subject. (And even forums
> seem to increasingly be viewed as being old hat nowadays, having largely given
> way to Facebook, Twitter and - most recently - Discord.)

Well the Computer Conservation Society (www.computerconservationsociety.org) is
very active in this area. Perhaps it should raise its head in here from time to
time.

--
Charles H. Lindsey ---------At my New Home, still doing my own thing-----------
Tel: +44 161 488 1845 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl
Email: c...@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 40 SK8 5BF, U.K.
PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5

[Folderol]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:21:01 +0100
Charles Lindsey <c...@clerew.man.ac.uk> wrote:

>On 30/08/2019 16:44, John Hall wrote:
>> In message <qkarlu$v12$1...@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o...@yahoo.co.uk> writes
>>> On 29/08/2019 16:34, John Hall wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> But not totally unread.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know where the conversation has moved too?
>>>
>>
>> Given the limited number of people interested in vintage computers, it may not
>> have moved anywhere. I certainly don't recall ever seeing a "heads up" from
>> anyone saying that they had created a forum for the subject. (And even forums
>> seem to increasingly be viewed as being old hat nowadays, having largely given
>> way to Facebook, Twitter and - most recently - Discord.)
>
>Well the Computer Conservation Society (www.computerconservationsociety.org) is
>very active in this area. Perhaps it should raise its head in here from time to
>time.

I would think so. I'd never heard of them before!

--
W J G

[John Hall]

In message <9f55d7ee-79b2-90e9...@clerew.man.ac.uk>,
Charles Lindsey <c...@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes

>
>Well the Computer Conservation Society
>(www.computerconservationsociety.org) is very active in this area.
>Perhaps it should raise its head in here from time to time.
>

Thanks for the link. I was interested to see under "Next Events":

The History of ICL Revisited
September 19th 2019 - London

I might have gone to that, having used the ICL 1900 series and 2900
series at work over many years, but unfortunately I'll be abroad on
holiday.

[Stephen Cole]

John Hall <john_...@jhall.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <qkarlu$v12$1...@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o...@yahoo.co.uk>
> writes
>> On 29/08/2019 16:34, John Hall wrote:
>>
>>
>>> But not totally unread.
>>
>> Does anyone know where the conversation has moved too?
>>
>
> Given the limited number of people interested in vintage computers, it
> may not have moved anywhere. I certainly don't recall ever seeing a
> "heads up" from anyone saying that they had created a forum for the
> subject. (And even forums seem to increasingly be viewed as being old
> hat nowadays, having largely given way to Facebook, Twitter and - most
> recently - Discord.)

I’m just starting to dip my toe into Discord; so far it seems to be a
slightly fancier IRC. Twitter is *fantastic* for retrocomputing, there’s a
few really good accounts with a lot of followers that generate excellent
content.

[Stephen Cole]

Then I have done the group a good turn in instigating this one! Cheers!

[Vir Campestris]

On 31/08/2019 10:41, John Hall wrote:
>>
> Thanks for the link. I was interested to see under "Next Events":
>
> The History of ICL Revisited
> September 19th 2019 - London
>
> I might have gone to that, having used the ICL 1900 series and 2900
> series at work over many years, but unfortunately I'll be abroad on
> holiday.

Damn. I'm tempted - but 14:30 in London basically means for me a whole
day by the time I've got there.

I started my career in ICL with 2900s with a meg or two of memory,
running at most 1MIP. At the other end I now have machines that sit on
my palm, have a gig or two of memory, and run in the gigahertz range...
and yet some things are just the same.

Andy

[Wm]

On 31/08/2019 10:41, John Hall wrote:

> In message <9f55d7ee-79b2-90e9...@clerew.man.ac.uk>,
> Charles Lindsey <c...@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes
>>
>> Well the Computer Conservation Society
>> (www.computerconservationsociety.org) is very active in this area.
>> Perhaps it should raise its head in here from time to time.
>>
> Thanks for the link. I was interested to see under "Next Events":
>
> The History of ICL Revisited
> September 19th 2019 - London
>
> I might have gone to that, having used the ICL 1900 series and 2900
> series at work over many years, but unfortunately I'll be abroad on
> holiday.

*all* mag tape and punched cards are on holiday.

--
Wm

[Wm]

On 01/09/2019 20:54, Vir Campestris wrote:
> On 31/08/2019 10:41, John Hall wrote:
>>>
>> Thanks for the link. I was interested to see under "Next Events":
>>
>> The History of ICL Revisited
>> September 19th 2019 - London
>>
>> I might have gone to that, having used the ICL 1900 series and 2900
>> series at work over many years, but unfortunately I'll be abroad on
>> holiday.
>
> Damn. I'm tempted - but 14:30 in London basically means for me a whole
> day by the time I've got there.

there are other things to do in London and affordable accommodation if
you plan ahead.

Chas is firmly Manchester, I admire that, other people like the rest of
the world.

--
Wm

[Wm]

On 31/08/2019 14:50, Stephen Cole wrote:

> I’m just starting to dip my toe into Discord; so far it seems to be a
> slightly fancier IRC. Twitter is *fantastic* for retrocomputing, there’s a
> few really good accounts with a lot of followers that generate excellent
> content.
>

Go back to where you came from

--
Wm

[John Hall]

In message <qkj3mu$80t$1...@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o...@yahoo.co.uk>
writes

I get much amusement from SF TV programmes and films made in the 1960s
supposedly featuring computers from hundreds of years in the future. One
always sees the computer occupying a large room, with banks of magnetic
tape drives with tapes whirring round. I suppose it was an easy way of
getting across to their audiences that what they were looking at was a
computer.

[John Hall]

In message <qkj42r$a2r$2...@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o...@yahoo.co.uk>
writes

I didn't expect to find myself defending STC, but that seems
unnecessarily confrontational given that his behaviour here has so far
been beyond reproach.

[John Hall]

In message <gt6s74...@mid.individual.net>, Huge
<Hu...@nowhere.much.invalid> writes
>The computers in SF films still annoy me. I expect something much more
>along the lines of Iain M Banks' "Minds", and I'm generally
>disappointed (ditto with weapons - where are the antimatter bombs, the
>relativistic railguns and the like?)

And however far in the future the film is set, the baddies still can't
shoot straight. Homing weapons seem to be unknown.