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  The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-27 05:16 +0000
    Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-27 05:20 +0000
      Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-08-29 12:24 +0100
        Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> - 2019-08-29 14:02 +0100
          Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-08-30 13:32 +0100
            Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-31 13:50 +0000
        Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2019-08-29 16:34 +0100
          Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-08-29 18:58 +0000
            Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-08-30 10:49 +0100
            Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-08-30 13:38 +0100
          Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-08-30 10:52 +0100
            Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2019-08-30 16:44 +0100
              Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> - 2019-08-30 17:21 +0100
                Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> - 2019-08-30 18:43 +0100
                Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2019-08-31 10:41 +0100
                  Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2019-09-01 20:54 +0100
                    Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-09-02 14:03 +0100
                  Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-09-02 13:59 +0100
                    Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2019-09-02 16:52 +0100
                      Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-09-03 10:05 +0000
                        Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2019-09-03 18:22 +0100
                          Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-09-03 18:54 +0000
              Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-31 13:50 +0000
                Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-09-02 14:05 +0100
                  Re: The Micro Museum, Ramsgate. John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2019-09-02 17:02 +0100

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#38 — The Micro Museum, Ramsgate.

I visited The Micro Museum in Ramsgate today:

https://www.vintageapplemac.com/the-micro-museum-at-ramsgate-in-kent-uk/

A neat little place to add to your list of days out, and bang in the middle
of town too so easy to loop in with the beach, harbour and other Ramsgate
delights. Their Games Gallery area is closing next week (31st) and folding
back into the main museum, so if you have time with the kids to kill next
Saturday or Sunday here’s your answer.

-- 
M0TEY // STC
www.twitter.com/ukradioamateur

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#39

Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> wrote:
> I visited The Micro Museum in Ramsgate today:
> 
> https://www.vintageapplemac.com/the-micro-museum-at-ramsgate-in-kent-uk/
> 
> A neat little place to add to your list of days out, and bang in the middle
> of town too so easy to loop in with the beach, harbour and other Ramsgate
> delights. Their Games Gallery area is closing next week (31st) and folding
> back into the main museum, so if you have time with the kids to kill next
> Saturday or Sunday here’s your answer.

Sorry, I meant Friday or Saturday! Last day of Games Gallery exhibition is
Saturday 31st August. 

-- 
M0TEY // STC
www.twitter.com/ukradioamateur

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#40

On 27/08/2019 06:20, Stephen Cole wrote:
> Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> wrote:
>> I visited The Micro Museum in Ramsgate today:
>>
>> https://www.vintageapplemac.com/the-micro-museum-at-ramsgate-in-kent-uk/
>>
>> A neat little place to add to your list of days out, and bang in the middle
>> of town too so easy to loop in with the beach, harbour and other Ramsgate
>> delights. Their Games Gallery area is closing next week (31st) and folding
>> back into the main museum, so if you have time with the kids to kill next
>> Saturday or Sunday here’s your answer.
> 
> Sorry, I meant Friday or Saturday! Last day of Games Gallery exhibition is
> Saturday 31st August.
> 
this group is largely unused, silly boy

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#41

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 12:24:09 +0100
Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>On 27/08/2019 06:20, Stephen Cole wrote:
>> Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> wrote:  
>>> I visited The Micro Museum in Ramsgate today:
>>>
>>> https://www.vintageapplemac.com/the-micro-museum-at-ramsgate-in-kent-uk/
>>>
>>> A neat little place to add to your list of days out, and bang in the middle
>>> of town too so easy to loop in with the beach, harbour and other Ramsgate
>>> delights. Their Games Gallery area is closing next week (31st) and folding
>>> back into the main museum, so if you have time with the kids to kill next
>>> Saturday or Sunday here’s your answer.  
>> 
>> Sorry, I meant Friday or Saturday! Last day of Games Gallery exhibition is
>> Saturday 31st August.
>>   
>this group is largely unused, silly boy
>
Doesn't mean people aren't watching it.

-- 
W J G

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#46

On 29/08/2019 14:02, Folderol wrote:

>> this group is largely unused, silly boy
>>
> Doesn't mean people aren't watching it.
> 

I may be wrong but my records suggest we are looking at years rather 
than days or months since this group last had a good conversation.

-- 
Wm

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#52

Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 29/08/2019 14:02, Folderol wrote:
> 
>>> this group is largely unused, silly boy
>>> 
>> Doesn't mean people aren't watching it.
>> 
> 
> I may be wrong but my records suggest we are looking at years rather 
> than days or months since this group last had a good conversation.
> 

Then I have done the group a good turn in instigating this one! Cheers!

-- 
M0TEY // STC
www.twitter.com/ukradioamateur

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#42

In message <qk8ckt$lrb$1@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> 
writes
>On 27/08/2019 06:20, Stephen Cole wrote:
>> Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> wrote:
>>> I visited The Micro Museum in Ramsgate today:
>>>
>>> https://www.vintageapplemac.com/the-micro-museum-at-ramsgate-in-kent-uk/
>>>
>>> A neat little place to add to your list of days out, and bang in the middle
>>> of town too so easy to loop in with the beach, harbour and other Ramsgate
>>> delights. Their Games Gallery area is closing next week (31st) and folding
>>> back into the main museum, so if you have time with the kids to kill next
>>> Saturday or Sunday here’s your answer.
>>  Sorry, I meant Friday or Saturday! Last day of Games Gallery 
>>exhibition is
>> Saturday 31st August.
>>
>this group is largely unused, silly boy
>

But not totally unread.
-- 
John Hall
           "If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come
            sit next to me."
                                  Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

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#43

> In message <qk8ckt$lrb$1@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> 
> writes
>>On 27/08/2019 06:20, Stephen Cole wrote:
>>> Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> wrote:
>>>> I visited The Micro Museum in Ramsgate today:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.vintageapplemac.com/the-micro-museum-at-ramsgate-in-kent-uk/
>>>>
>>>> A neat little place to add to your list of days out, and bang in the middle
>>>> of town too so easy to loop in with the beach, harbour and other Ramsgate
>>>> delights. Their Games Gallery area is closing next week (31st) and folding
>>>> back into the main museum, so if you have time with the kids to kill next
>>>> Saturday or Sunday here’s your answer.
>>>  Sorry, I meant Friday or Saturday! Last day of Games Gallery 
>>>exhibition is
>>> Saturday 31st August.
>>>
>>this group is largely unused, silly boy

Still ably justifying your killfile entry, I see. Besides, what the
fuck has it got to do with you?




-- 
Today is Sweetmorn, the 22nd day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3185
                  Rising above bedlam

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#44

On 29/08/2019 19:58, Huge wrote:
>> In message <qk8ckt$lrb$1@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk>
>> writes
>>> On 27/08/2019 06:20, Stephen Cole wrote:
>>>> Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> wrote:
>>>>> I visited The Micro Museum in Ramsgate today:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.vintageapplemac.com/the-micro-museum-at-ramsgate-in-kent-uk/
>>>>>
>>>>> A neat little place to add to your list of days out, and bang in the middle
>>>>> of town too so easy to loop in with the beach, harbour and other Ramsgate
>>>>> delights. Their Games Gallery area is closing next week (31st) and folding
>>>>> back into the main museum, so if you have time with the kids to kill next
>>>>> Saturday or Sunday here’s your answer.
>>>>   Sorry, I meant Friday or Saturday! Last day of Games Gallery
>>>> exhibition is
>>>> Saturday 31st August.
>>>>
>>> this group is largely unused, silly boy
> 
> Still ably justifying your killfile entry, I see.

Apparently not, you replied.

> Besides, what the
> fuck has it got to do with you?

STC has often said which groups he thinks ought to exist and ought not 
to exist.

-- 
Wm

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#47

On 29/08/2019 19:58, Huge wrote:
>> In message <qk8ckt$lrb$1@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk>
>> writes
>>> On 27/08/2019 06:20, Stephen Cole wrote:
>>>> Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> wrote:
>>>>> I visited The Micro Museum in Ramsgate today:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.vintageapplemac.com/the-micro-museum-at-ramsgate-in-kent-uk/
>>>>>
>>>>> A neat little place to add to your list of days out, and bang in the middle
>>>>> of town too so easy to loop in with the beach, harbour and other Ramsgate
>>>>> delights. Their Games Gallery area is closing next week (31st) and folding
>>>>> back into the main museum, so if you have time with the kids to kill next
>>>>> Saturday or Sunday here’s your answer.
>>>>   Sorry, I meant Friday or Saturday! Last day of Games Gallery
>>>> exhibition is
>>>> Saturday 31st August.
>>>>
>>> this group is largely unused, silly boy
> 
> Still ably justifying your killfile entry, I see. Besides, what the
> fuck has it got to do with you?
> 
> 
> 
> 
It has occurred to me that I don't know who Huge is, I don't recall him 
(probably, women tend not to call themselves that) having a positive or 
prominent posting record in this ng.

So what?

-- 
Wm

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#45

On 29/08/2019 16:34, John Hall wrote:


> But not totally unread.

Does anyone know where the conversation has moved too?

-- 
Wm

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#48

In message <qkarlu$v12$1@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> 
writes
>On 29/08/2019 16:34, John Hall wrote:
>
>
>> But not totally unread.
>
>Does anyone know where the conversation has moved too?
>

Given the limited number of people interested in vintage computers, it 
may not have moved anywhere. I certainly don't recall ever seeing a 
"heads up" from anyone saying that they had created a forum for the 
subject. (And even forums seem to increasingly be viewed as being old 
hat nowadays, having largely given way to Facebook, Twitter and - most 
recently - Discord.)
-- 
John Hall
           "If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come
            sit next to me."
                                  Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

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#49

On 30/08/2019 16:44, John Hall wrote:
> In message <qkarlu$v12$1@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> writes
>> On 29/08/2019 16:34, John Hall wrote:
>>
>>
>>> But not totally unread.
>>
>> Does anyone know where the conversation has moved too?
>>
> 
> Given the limited number of people interested in vintage computers, it may not 
> have moved anywhere. I certainly don't recall ever seeing a "heads up" from 
> anyone saying that they had created a forum for the subject. (And even forums 
> seem to increasingly be viewed as being old hat nowadays, having largely given 
> way to Facebook, Twitter and - most recently - Discord.)

Well the Computer Conservation Society (www.computerconservationsociety.org) is 
very active in this area. Perhaps it should raise its head in here from time to 
time.

-- 
Charles H. Lindsey ---------At my New Home, still doing my own thing-----------
Tel: +44 161 488 1845                         Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl
Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk      Snail: 40 SK8 5BF, U.K.
PGP: 2C15F1A9      Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5

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#50

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:21:01 +0100
Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> wrote:

>On 30/08/2019 16:44, John Hall wrote:
>> In message <qkarlu$v12$1@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> writes  
>>> On 29/08/2019 16:34, John Hall wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> But not totally unread.  
>>>
>>> Does anyone know where the conversation has moved too?
>>>  
>> 
>> Given the limited number of people interested in vintage computers, it may not 
>> have moved anywhere. I certainly don't recall ever seeing a "heads up" from 
>> anyone saying that they had created a forum for the subject. (And even forums 
>> seem to increasingly be viewed as being old hat nowadays, having largely given 
>> way to Facebook, Twitter and - most recently - Discord.)  
>
>Well the Computer Conservation Society (www.computerconservationsociety.org) is 
>very active in this area. Perhaps it should raise its head in here from time to 
>time.

I would think so. I'd never heard of them before!

-- 
W J G

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#51

In message <9f55d7ee-79b2-90e9-b439-017b428b3732@clerew.man.ac.uk>, 
Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes
>
>Well the Computer Conservation Society 
>(www.computerconservationsociety.org) is very active in this area. 
>Perhaps it should raise its head in here from time to time.
>
Thanks for the link. I was interested to see under "Next Events":

The History of ICL Revisited
September 19th 2019 - London

I might have gone to that, having used the ICL 1900 series and 2900 
series at work over many years, but unfortunately I'll be abroad on 
holiday.
-- 
John Hall
           "If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come
            sit next to me."
                                  Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

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#54

On 31/08/2019 10:41, John Hall wrote:
>>
> Thanks for the link. I was interested to see under "Next Events":
> 
> The History of ICL Revisited
> September 19th 2019 - London
> 
> I might have gone to that, having used the ICL 1900 series and 2900 
> series at work over many years, but unfortunately I'll be abroad on 
> holiday.

Damn. I'm tempted - but 14:30 in London basically means for me a whole 
day by the time I've got there.

I started my career in ICL with 2900s with a meg or two of memory, 
running at most 1MIP. At the other end I now have machines that sit on 
my palm, have a gig or two of memory, and run in the gigahertz range... 
and yet some things are just the same.

Andy

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#56

On 01/09/2019 20:54, Vir Campestris wrote:
> On 31/08/2019 10:41, John Hall wrote:
>>>
>> Thanks for the link. I was interested to see under "Next Events":
>>
>> The History of ICL Revisited
>> September 19th 2019 - London
>>
>> I might have gone to that, having used the ICL 1900 series and 2900 
>> series at work over many years, but unfortunately I'll be abroad on 
>> holiday.
> 
> Damn. I'm tempted - but 14:30 in London basically means for me a whole 
> day by the time I've got there.


there are other things to do in London and affordable accommodation if 
you plan ahead.

Chas is firmly Manchester, I admire that, other people like the rest of 
the world.

-- 
Wm

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#55

On 31/08/2019 10:41, John Hall wrote:
> In message <9f55d7ee-79b2-90e9-b439-017b428b3732@clerew.man.ac.uk>, 
> Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes
>>
>> Well the Computer Conservation Society 
>> (www.computerconservationsociety.org) is very active in this area. 
>> Perhaps it should raise its head in here from time to time.
>>
> Thanks for the link. I was interested to see under "Next Events":
> 
> The History of ICL Revisited
> September 19th 2019 - London
> 
> I might have gone to that, having used the ICL 1900 series and 2900 
> series at work over many years, but unfortunately I'll be abroad on 
> holiday.

*all* mag tape and punched cards are on holiday.

-- 
Wm

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#58

In message <qkj3mu$80t$1@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> 
writes
>On 31/08/2019 10:41, John Hall wrote:
>> In message <9f55d7ee-79b2-90e9-b439-017b428b3732@clerew.man.ac.uk>, 
>>Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> writes
>>>
>>> Well the Computer Conservation Society 
>>>(www.computerconservationsociety.org) is very active in this area. 
>>>Perhaps it should raise its head in here from time to time.
>>>
>> Thanks for the link. I was interested to see under "Next Events":
>>  The History of ICL Revisited
>> September 19th 2019 - London
>>  I might have gone to that, having used the ICL 1900 series and 2900 
>>series at work over many years, but unfortunately I'll be abroad on 
>>holiday.
>
>*all* mag tape and punched cards are on holiday.
>

I get much amusement from SF TV programmes and films made in the 1960s 
supposedly featuring computers from hundreds of years in the future. One 
always sees the computer occupying a large room, with banks of magnetic 
tape drives with tapes whirring round. I suppose it was an easy way of 
getting across to their audiences that what they were looking at was a 
computer.
-- 
John Hall
           "If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come
            sit next to me."
                                  Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

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#60

On 2019-09-02, John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <qkj3mu$80t$1@dont-email.me>, Wm <wm_o_o_o@yahoo.co.uk> 
> writes

[snippage]

>>*all* mag tape and punched cards are on holiday.
>>
>
> I get much amusement from SF TV programmes and films made in the 1960s 
> supposedly featuring computers from hundreds of years in the future. One 
> always sees the computer occupying a large room, with banks of magnetic 
> tape drives with tapes whirring round.

The computers in SF films still annoy me. I expect something much more
along the lines of Iain M Banks' "Minds", and I'm generally disappointed
(ditto with weapons - where are the antimatter bombs, the relativistic
railguns and the like?)

-- 
Today is Sweetmorn, the 27th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3185
                  Rising above bedlam

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