On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 14:23, Christopher Satterfield via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I'm going to be presenting a (fine? idk) collection of British Computers. > Dragging along at least an Acorn RiscPC 700, a Castle Iyonix, Sinclair > Spectrum 48k and a Q68. Possibly static Apricot FP1/F1 if I can be bothered > to reassemble them despite their non-functional states.
As a Brit, can I just express my appreciation of this? :-) I write for an international audience and sometimes people from the USA are openly and repeatedly incredulous that "obscure" British computers -- that means they've never heard of them -- can be considered significant or important, even compared to American machines that were on sale in East Futtbuck Idaho for 6 weeks in Spring 1973 and have never been mentioned since. The biggest selling CPU in history is a British design from a British company. Its native OS is still updated and is FOSS today, and provided the inspiration for a key part of the Windows 95 user interface now used by billions. The core of the OS dates from the late 1970s or so and may be the oldest OS of which a modern derivative still can run on the bare metal of new hardware in 2024. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053
