🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 23:49:58 +0100, Bill Findlay wrote:

> On 10 Aug 2018, Huge wrote (in article
> <ft6eqe...@mid.individual.net>):
> 
>> On 2018-08-10, Bob Eager<news...@eager.cx>  wrote:
>> > On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:45:34 +0000, Huge wrote:
>> >
>> > > On 2018-08-10, Bob Eager<news...@eager.cx>  wrote:
>> > > > On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:46:30 +0000, Huge wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > On 2018-08-10, David Wade<g4ugm@dave.invalid>  wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > [24 lines snipped]
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > If one is looking for elegance in early machines, then the
>> > > > > > Ferranti Pegasus is an interesting starting point. According
>> > > > > > to Simon Lavington's book
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pegasus-Story-History-Vintage-
Computer/
>> > > > dp/1900747405
>> > > > > Fascinating. Thank you!
>> > > >
>> > > > Must get that. Simon is great fun, and we have spent time in the
>> > > > pub together on more than one occasion.
>> > > >
>> > > > (Computer Conservation Society, monthly meetings near Covent
>> > > > Garden)
>> > >
>> > > When and where? I might be persuaded to schlep in from Norfolk for
>> > > that!
>> >
>> > Southampton Street (BCS London offices).
>> >
>> > http://computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/current/lecture.htm
>> >
>> > I quite often go. Whatever the talk is, it's interesting. And so are
>> > the people. Sometimes end up in the pub afterwards.
>>
>> Ta!
> 
> There will be a talk on ICL 1900 Series resurrection next month:
> 
> Title: ICL 1900 Software Recovery Speaker: Bill Gallagher, Delwyn
> Holroyd &  Brian Spoor Date: Thursday 20th September 2018 Time: 14:30
> Location: BCS, 5 Southampton St, London WC2E 7HA
> 
> I will be in the audience, having contributed to the restoration of 1900
> Pascal:
> 
> <http://www.findlayw.plus.com/ICL1900/index.html>

More details on my link above!

I'll be there too. I'm the tall one with very untidy white hair and a 
check shirt!

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