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  • Great Day Out.

    From Alastair Frankland@1:124/5016 to All on Fri Feb 6 15:48:55 2026
    Hi all! We visited the Centre for Computing History today. Located just outside Cambridge, UK. I highly reccomend this
    as both an educaional and entertaining venue. With an extensive collecion of mainframes and micro computers dating back
    to the earliest days of modern computing. A shop and also loos. Very accessible and unassuming it makes a strong
    impression on the novice as well as the expert. A big thank you going out to the staff who were knowledgeable about all
    eras and regions. A nice touch were the contextual displays setting vintage computers within the style and decor of
    their time, and done with accuracy and attention to detail. Nice. Thank you all you are amazing. Bye.
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  • From Mortar M.@1:124/5016 to Alastair Frankland on Sat Feb 7 10:01:37 2026
    Re: Great Day Out.
    By: Alastair Frankland to All on Fri Feb 06 2026 15:48:55

    A shop and also loos.

    For your input and output. :)
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  • From Alastair Frankland@1:124/5016 to Mortar M. on Sat Feb 7 14:35:09 2026
    Re: Great Day Out.
    By: Mortar M. to Alastair Frankland on Sat Feb 07 2026 10:01:37

    Re: Great Day Out.
    By: Alastair Frankland to All on Fri Feb 06 2026 15:48:55

    A shop and also loos.

    For your input and output. :)
    Ohnoo! ;)
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  • From Bob Worm@2:250/3 to Alastair Frankland on Thu Feb 26 22:26:53 2026
    Re: Great Day Out.
    By: Alastair Frankland to All on Fri Feb 06 2026 15:48:55

    Hi, Alastair.

    Hi all! We visited the Centre for Computing History today. Located just outside Cambridge, UK. I highly reccomend this

    I went there once a couple of years ago - I dragged up there with work and technically should have been working but I just bummed off for the afternoon* and looked around the CfCH. Brilliant time, so diverse.

    * I was up there to present for a tender / bid that I'd spent several weeks preparing, evenings and weekends and all that. I really didn't need to run through the slides one more time or strategise any further. I think it was much better for my pitch that I be in a happy frame of mind after seeing old Psions, Apples and Gameboys. I even got to look up my home town on the Domesday system.

    Good times.

    BobW
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  • From Alastair Frankland@1:124/5016 to Bob Worm on Tue Mar 3 13:07:55 2026
    Re: Great Day Out.
    By: Bob Worm to Alastair Frankland on Thu Feb 26 2026 22:26:53

    Re: Great Day Out.
    By: Alastair Frankland to All on Fri Feb 06 2026 15:48:55

    Hi, Alastair.

    Hi all! We visited the Centre for Computing History today. Located just outside Cambridge, UK. I highly reccomend this

    I went there once a couple of years ago - I dragged up there with work and t

    * I was up there to present for a tender / bid that I'd spent several weeks
    I be in a happy frame of mind after seeing old Psions, Apples and Gameboys.

    Good times.

    BobW

    Dear Bob hi! Glad you enjoyed it too, it's nice to think that those old
    ways are not forgotten ;) All the best Alastair.
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