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On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 09:51:18 +0000, Huge wrote:

> On 2018-08-10, Bill Findlay <findl...@blueyonder.co.uk> 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>
> 
> [Makes note.]
> 
> Since I've actually used a 1900, that one looks interesting, thank you.

I should have said...so have I. I spent two summers working at the 
University of Sussex, including some PLAN programming. And then, nearly a 
decade later, doing consultancy work for BT (more PLAN).

To be fair, the latter was on a 2900 running DME.



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