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Re: PDP 11/40 system manual

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From: Bill Findlay
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 22:49
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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>

-- 
Bill Findlay
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