After
studying the publicity it would appear that the VCF-UK is simply
another in a series of events organized by Bletchley Park themselves.
What's
wrong with that? Someone has to organise it, if there's to be a
VCF UK at all. And they are, after all, organising it as a VCF by
agreement of Sellam.
Could organization of this event (in spite of some flaws in publicizing
it!) indicate the start of a trend there, towards paying more attention to
private collectors?
Possibly. One of my main moans about BP is that they routinely ignore
enthusisats. They don't seem to believe you can be self-taught and
clueful. We can start the field-servoid war again if you like...
But maybe they're attempting to get private collectors just to make it
more like the US VCFs.
> I suspect
that a lot of what you might see is already there. Note that the
> show is sub-titled "A history of computing in the UK" The only non-uk
> reference appears to be to Amiga.
Who wrote Amiga-OS?
IIRC it was based on Tripos, which came from Dr Martin Richards at
Cambridge University... I really must get Tripos running on one of my
PDP11s sometime....
-tony