[Blackpool] Control-Alt-Obsolete

[Les Pounder]

Does anyone fancy a day out to Manchester this Saturday?

MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) has an interesting event.

*Sat 2 June
**Control-Alt-Obsolete
*In the computer world it doesn't take long for the hottest, newest model
to be cast aside for something even newer and better. Join Computer
Scientists from the University of Salford at our retro computer lab to have
a go on a range of forgotten classics, programme your own piece of software
and decode a cryptic message on a modern touch-screen version of the famous
Enigma machine. Check out the list of what you will be running here:
*Ages 4+*

   - Dragon 32
   - BBC B Micro
   - ZX-81
   - Spectrum 48k
   - Commodore Pet 2001
   - Commodore VIC 20
   - Commodore 64
   - Commodore Amiga 500+
   - Archimedes 3010
   - Texas Instruments TI-99/4
   - Compaq portable
   - Atari 2600
   - RM-386 running Windows 2.03 !
   - Toshiba "laptop" running Windows 3.0 and 3.1
   - Mac SE/30, Mac Classic
   - Silicon Graphics Personal Iris 4D
   - Microsoft Surface
   - Simulated WWII Enigma code machine
   - Raspberry Pi

More details here
http://ht.ly/bbT2A

Thanks
Les

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