photos from VCF UK etc

Some more photos to join the collection Some do seem to be very similar to others in James' and Andrew's collections -obviously similar items caught our eyes. http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyh-rayleigh/ parts of me(!) can be seen on James' pictures of the 2966 - in the first one I (or about 1/4 of me) can be seen at the extreme left of the picture ... I am talking to Alan Thomson (off shot) about some old ICL manuals I have, one of which is in my hand in the picture. I believe that the person with the ICL banner in that photo is Delwyn Holroyd who was looking after the 2966 at the time and is one of the joint authors of the 1900/George3 emulator that can be found if you try hard enough :-) In the other main photo of the 2966 (P1000077) the back of my head is visible as one of the group of 3 at the back by the MT drive. I went to David Ahl's talk. Pity so few others did (less than 2 dozen altogether) - how fleeting is fame :-( I suppose it is inevitable that any such gathering has "holes" in the story ... I saw no mention of the Amateur Computing Club (ACC) (and the 77/68) which was the nucleus of hobby computing just before the MK14 and Acorn Atom introduced "proper" commercial kits - and even the Atom that I photo-ed had no informative label. Other than PDP-11s, the minicomputer era was practically ignored; Perqs were the only obvious examples of the workstation era; the disappearance of items been nice to have had at least one information board on the Ferranti Atlas that innovated so many of the things we now take for granted. Andy Holt one of the two visitors wearing T-shirts with the motto: There's no place like 127.0.0.1 I should obviously have found my "Happiness is Honeywell" Snoopy Tshirt instead!