Fred plays Pac Man on a VIC-20 - which we have at home anyway, but why not
The Retro Computer Festival, Centre For Computing History, Cambridge - 15th September 2018
Visiting the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge has been on the list for a while, but an email asking about references to the old Newbury/NewBear company out of the early 1980s from one of the curators leads to an invite to go along to their Retro Computer Day. Fred comes along too, to try out some of the old hardware and vintage computer games. After the nerd-fest, we meet back up with Isobel and Harry in the centre of Cambridge, before an almost-traditional visit to Pizza Express on Jesus Lane for tea.
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Fred tries out an epic room-size reconstruction of a CPU
Fred is naturally drawn to the computerised Lego
ET in a Sinclair C5
Possibly the UK's largest collection of Newbury NewBrains - the machine that could have been the BBC Micro
An original Atari Pong - one of the machines which started the video game revolution
Someone lifts the lid of a Commodore 800
A room full of vintage hardware
A bit of Acorn history, featuring the ARM1
A signed BBC Micro, featuring the signatures of Hermann Hauser, Chris Curry, Sophie Wilson, Steve Furber and Andy Popper
Sinclair's MK-14
Fred uses an actual - and very rare - working laserdisc version of the 1980s Domesday Project
In a recreation of a late 1970s office
More geeks
There's a working Altair 8800
Fred is fascinated by a punched tape reader
A version of Joseph Weizebaum's legendary Eliza, on punched tape in Altair Basic
Fred roams around
Fred plays Chuckie Egg on a BBC Micro
Fred in the car park, as the train from Ipswich rumbles past
Fred climbs on a sculpture outside Carluccio's in Cambridge
Isobel and Harry return from some sort of shopping spree
Posters outside the Corn Exchange
There's the usual chaos going on outside King's College
Funky entrance to a nightclub
Harry and Isobel in Pizza Express on Jesus Lane
Harry in Pizza Express
On Jesus Lane
The boys on All Saints Passage
All Saints Garden craft market looks very autumnal
The entrance to Trinity College chapel on St. John's Street
On Trinity Street
The main entrance to Trinity College
Trinity Lane
Punts on the Cam
There's still some late-season punting to be had
Clare College
There's some sort of Chinese photo-shoot going on down Senate House Passage
Some sort of photo-shoot and a fake wedding or something
Metal sculpture outside Great St. Mary's
There's a herd of sponsored walkers down near Corn Exchange Street
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Fred plays Pac Man on a VIC-20 - which we have at home anyway, but why not