David Pleasence Guest Speaker NW Computer Museum
 

Grand opening on Sat 3rd June with David Pleasence as a guest speaker. So thought would give you Commodore peeps a heads up.

Tickets £10

I have already attended pre launch and well worth a visit with a variety of old and new tech to play with. Large selection of games to play plus a little arcade section with OutRun and Crazy Taxi cabinets and a couple of others.

Cafe with food and drinks too

Tickets Link

Nice. The classroom with the BEEBs in it is a nice touch.

One or two items on display in the other photos I don't own/recognise. I wonder if they are business computers rather than home computers? I thought I owned 90% of all home computers.

The 'classroom' picture with the BBCs in the foreground has three PETs, an Amiga 2000 and an Amstrad PC, probably a 1512 CGA model as it only has a single disk drive but the image is so small it could be an Amstrad 1640 with single disk drive and a hard disk behind the blanking play (with EGA to boot). Most schools in the mid-late 80s in London had BBC Master computers to replace the Model B's but also a Research Machines Nimbus PC with an 80186 with DOS and Windows but I can't see a Nimbus in the photo.

My bad, I meant the other photos. Mainly the ones with integrated monitors. Anything before 1980 I don't really remember and have not collected. Acorn Atom being the first home computer I ever saw.

Hundreds of miles from me, but I think that photo must be pretty close to paradise for many of us. And it being located in an old spinning mill amuses me for some reason, one feared new technology that changed the world in a building that used to be for another.