I wanted to let the group know about a new computer museum that I am

starting up in the Pittsburgh area. We are still in the startup stage, but
hope to get things rolling faster soon. You can follow my blog at
www.pghcomputermuseum.org, and I would love to get input from any of you who
have traveled this path before, or those who just have some ideas that they
think are good ones.

We currently have many classic computers, but they have not been inventoried
or checked out. once we get going, we will be doing all that plus looking
for other classics, expansions, magazines and books, programs and other
things. If the moderators approve, this Classic Computers Yahoo Group will
be listed as a resource for visitors to both the virtual as well as the
physical museum.

Thanks,

Art

For more information, see…

• http://www.raspberrypi.org
• http://www.mbed.org
• http://www.arduino.cc
• https://sites.google.com/site/libby8dev/fignition

• CPU: ARM7500 clocked at 32 MHz. With hardware floating point unit, clocked at 48 MHz.
• Memory type: 4 MiB FPM motherboard mounted and, 1 SIMM slot, supporting a maximum memory size of 132 MiB
• Video subsystem: VIDC20 controller integrated into ARM7500 core, display memory is shared with main memory.
• Expansion: One Eurocard-sized Podule support in common with Archimedes-series machines. One internal network card socket.
• Case: One 3.5 inch bay, with floppy drive, one 5.25 inch bay for a CD-ROM. Note, only one of a CD-ROM/DVD-ROM or an Eurocard Podule could be fitted.
• Ports: RS-232 Serial, Parallel, PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, headphone audio out, DE15 VGA, network (optional).
• Dimensions, HxWxD: 102 x 357 x 283 mm
• Operating System: RISC OS 3.60 A7000

And here is the Flash animation in question. Hey Hey 16k

Here is my Pi next to the ‘Pie’

We were slumbering, as usual, in our misty Shift Run Stop cryo-pods, when through the liquid nitrogen we heard it: the unmistakable call of a Raspberry Pi in the wild. So here we are again, temporarily reanimated for a very special and rare chat with credit-card sized computer creator, Eben Upton. As Eben reflects on a trajectory that began with writing mouse drivers for BBC Micros and ended with being technical director at Broadcom, we try very hard not to drop his baby on the floor.

Download the Podcast from here : Episode 62: Dr Eben Upton and the Raspberry Pi (I suggest you subscribe too!)

The Podcast is also available through iTunes.

The ZX Spectrum is 30 years old. The successor to Sir Clive Sinclair’s ZX81 – at the time the world’s best selling consumer computer – it introduced colour “high resolution” graphics and sound.

It also offered an extended version of Sinclair Basic, a computer language with which hundreds of thousands of users were already familiar.

The thin Bauhaus-inspired design was sleeker than anything else on the market, but what was more impressive was its price: £125 for the basic model with 16 kilobytes of RAM, or £175 for the 48k model.

That allowed adverts at the time to boast: “Less than half the price of its nearest competitor- and more powerful”.

You can read the rest of this article at the BBC - ZX Spectrum’s chief designers reunited 30 years on

Finally, I have got the Fuse ZX Spectrum emulator running on Raspberry Pi #7. Here is a video of it in action.

Getting the emulator to work was relatively simple. I just has to ‘apt-get’ in a few additional packages from the Debian repository. I didn’t need to modify any C code.

I tried to compile the code under the virtual machine set-up detailed on Russell Davis’s blog http://russelldavis.org, but it would not compile. So in the end, I compiled the code directly on the Pi. This did take about 20 minutes.

You should have seen my face once I got Manic Miner loaded

I will be taking more photos and video of the Raspberry Pi at the Beeb@30 event this weekend.

This Pi (Number 7) belongs to http://www.computinghistory.org.uk

A number of British computing firms were approached to produce a machine to the BBC’s own specification. The contract was awarded to Acorn Computers, whose own Atom replacement machine, the Proton, was adapted to satisfy the criteria.

The resulting BBC Micro became the machine of choice for schools up and down the country, backed by the then Conservative government’s own desire to make Britain lead the world in computer education.

Thirty years on, the BBC Micro is fondly remembered as being the computer that started a generation of careers in IT. It also begs the question – what did the Computer Literacy Project achieve, and how does it compare to how computing is taught now?

Beeb@30 will be a celebration with a twist, with the people who made it happen just over thirty years ago.

For more information and how to order tickets, please visit this page.

Medford, Oregon – Trilobyte Games, LLC today is pleased to announce that The 7th Guest is now available in the Mac App Store. The classic game sells for $9.99 in all Mac App Store supported countries and runs on Snow Leopard and Lion. First released in 1993 on the PC and Mac, and in 2010 on the iPhone, The 7th Guest is a challenging game that withstands the test of time. This release is built for Mac OS X and brings the game to a modern platform while maintaining its original appeal.
The 7th Guest is also available for PC from Dotemu and GOG and for iPhone/iPad in the iTunes App Store. The sequel, The 11th Hour is available from Dotemu and GOG for PC only.

Source & more info at Trilobyte Games Releases The 7th Guest for Mac App Store