Archive for July, 2010
The Centre for Computing History gets a BCL Susie
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Last week, The Centre for Computing History added a BCL Susie to the museums collection
BCL Susie (Stock Updating Sales Invoicing Electronically) used a magnetic drum store and the Molecular18 computer system which was was an 18 bit, dual accumulator, programmable computer, with a typical minicomputer architecture. The Molecular could address up to 64K words of memory. In later models, memory extensions were made available by the use of bank switching.
RISC OS on the Bush IBX200 Internet.tv box
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Thanks to the Peter(fibble) over at the stairwaytohell.com BBC Micro forums, he gave The Centre for Computing History a Bush IBX200. The internet service hosted by Bush and Virgin.net is no longer available – so the box is quite useless…. or is it?
RCM Gaming Event / Open Day – October 31st 2010
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
RCM are proud to announce their 5th Retro Gaming Day
Venue is:- The Institute, Main Street, Swannington, Coalville LE67 8QL
Date and Time:- Sunday 31st October 2010 from 10.30am – 5.00pm
Ticket Prices:- £5.00 for adults, £1.00 for children for pre-ticket sales and £7.00 for adults, £2.00 for children on the day ticket sales.
Tickets will be available from August 1st and can be purchased either by clicking on our donate button which is at the top left hand side of our website, which will in turn take you to our paypal account or on the day at the venue (at the higher cost). If you wish to pay by other means please contact us via the RCM Website http://www.retrocomputermuseum.co.uk. The closing date for pre-ticket sales will be October 14th. We will send out the purchased tickets two weeks before the event. If anybody needs any more information please do not hesitate to ask!
Addition – BBC Model A 16k
Monday, July 12th, 2010Managed to pick up a rather special machine last week – a BBC Model A. It looks like this one has not been upgraded as it only has the printer port. No tube, disk drive, RGB, Econet, user or analog ports either!
Im still in the process of cleaning it. I’ve run out of my ‘special’ cleaning stuff. It was brown with over the top school markings on.
You can see the rest of the photos on Flickr! and read more about the BBC Model A here.