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  • Centre for Computing History museum.

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 8 19:48:23 2024
    We spent the last week in Cambridge and I had to of course visit while
    my better half went shopping. Relatively small but I still managed to
    spend over three hours there, looking at the various computers (many of
    which I'd never heard of) and playing some games. So Bomber Jack on the
    Specky 48k, Drop Zone on the C64, Xenon on the Atari ST (I forgot how
    much I loved this game), Pong on Binatone and Centipede on an arcade
    machine plus some others.

    The Megaprocessor is so cool, basically take what a CPU is and then
    build it from more discrete parts. So some picture of various things and
    a link to the museum.

    https://imgur.com/a/computers-qgrXxWW

    https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Mon Jun 10 07:59:03 2024
    On 10/06/2024 00:42, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 19:48:23 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

    We spent the last week in Cambridge and I had to of course visit while
    my better half went shopping. Relatively small but I still managed to
    spend over three hours there, looking at the various computers (many of
    which I'd never heard of) and playing some games. So Bomber Jack on the
    Specky 48k, Drop Zone on the C64, Xenon on the Atari ST (I forgot how
    much I loved this game), Pong on Binatone and Centipede on an arcade
    machine plus some others.



    https://imgur.com/a/computers-qgrXxWW

    https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/

    If you want a more hands-on experience (albeit smaller and more
    focused on home PCs and gaming devices) there's also the RMC Cave in Chaldford.

    https://www.rmcretro.com/


    This one does have a lot of hands on experience (playing games) and is a
    mix of home computers, dedicated games machine (arcade and consoles) and
    more historic content.

    They also seem to have a focus on the educational side so they have a
    small lab set-up where you can try you hand at programming on BBC
    micros. The Megaprocessor is part of that as it helps explain what goes
    into a computer. Oh and you can play Tetris on it as well.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Mandrake on Tue Jun 11 08:29:47 2024
    On 11/06/2024 05:45, Mandrake wrote:
    JAB wrote:
    On 10/06/2024 00:42, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 19:48:23 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

    We spent the last week in Cambridge and I had to of course visit while >>>> my better half went shopping. Relatively small but I still managed to
    spend over three hours there, looking at the various computers (many of >>>> which I'd never heard of) and playing some games. So Bomber Jack on the >>>> Specky 48k, Drop Zone on the C64, Xenon on the Atari ST (I forgot how
    much I loved this game), Pong on Binatone and Centipede on an arcade
    machine plus some others.



    https://imgur.com/a/computers-qgrXxWW

    https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/

    If you want a more hands-on experience (albeit smaller and more
    focused on home PCs and gaming devices) there's also the RMC Cave in
    Chaldford.

    https://www.rmcretro.com/


    This one does have a lot of hands on experience (playing games) and is
    a mix of home computers, dedicated games machine (arcade and consoles)
    and more historic content.

    They also seem to have a focus on the educational side so they have a
    small lab set-up where you can try you hand at programming on BBC
    micros. The Megaprocessor is part of that as it helps explain what
    goes into a computer. Oh and you can play Tetris on it as well.

    Are any of the BBC micros attached to motors?


    Not as far as I saw.

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