Retro Computers

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!

The Retro Computer Museum will be holding its November openday on the 15th November 2009.

Venue is:-
The Institute, Main Street, Swannington, Coalville LE67 8QL
Date and Time:-
Sunday 15th November 2009 from 10.30am – 5.00pm
Ticket Prices:-
£4.50 for adults, £1.00 for children for pre-ticket sales
£6.00 for adults, £1.00 for children on the day ticket sales.

You can purchase tickets from the RCM website here. using the donate button. Just pop your name and address in with your paypal purchase.

I will be there, but ive not decied what machines I will be taking yet. Let me know if there is anything you would like to see at the event!

Here are some photos of machines I took to the last event in May.

Hello everybody – just to let you know our next event is on May 31st at the same address as last time – for those of you that didn’t come or need the address, here it is . . .
The Institute, Swannington, Leicestershire LE67 8QL.
The event will run from 10.30am to around 5.30pm.
A map is available on the forums HERE.
You can come onto the forums to find out further details or visit our youtube page HERE.

Andy, Linda and the Admin Team

RETRO COMPUTER MUSEUM – OPEN DAY 2008

OPEN DAY (One Day Only!)

Sunday 16th November 2008

Tickets are now on sale for the Retro Computer Museum Open Day.

You can pay via paypal or cheque (or cash on the day!). If you want to pay via paypal then just click on the donate link on the home page.

Tickets are £2.50 for adults and 50p for children (advance sales) and £3.50 for adults and 50p for children (on the day).

Tickets will be sent out two-three weeks before the event.

More information about the even can be found on the Retro Computer Museum homepage and forums at http://retrocomputermuseum.co.uk/

I wll be taking my Tatung Einstein TC01 on the day to be put on display. Also will be taking the VIC-PC and my Spectrum +3 with IDE interface. (Should be on compact flash by then, not a IDE hard disk…)

Other machines on display include…

• Amstrad CPC464
• Commodore 64 + Disc Drive + Cassette + Monitor etc
• Commodore 128 + Disc Drive + Monitor etc
• Commodore Amiga 1200 + Monitor etc
• Commodore CD32
• Sega Dreamcast + Games + LCD Monitor (VGA)
• Sega Genesis Nomad + Games (slightly poorly – but plays okay)
• Sinclair ZXSpectrum (Rubber Key) + TV
• Sinclair ZXSpectrum +2
• Sinclair ZXSpectrum +3
• Sinclair ZX81 + 16k Rampack + Games
• Sega Saturn + Games + TV
• Sony PS2 + Games + (maybe Guitar Hero 2) + TV
• Microsoft XBox + Games + TV
• Astro Wars Tabletop
• Gameboy Original + Games

Hope to see some of you there!