Hello all, This is just a short email to let the West Australian members know that the Artifactory, Perth's very own Hackerspace (in the correct sense of the word), has started hosting a regular, fortnightly event called 'Classic Computing Appreciation Night'. Several of our current members have at least a passing interest in collecting, restoring and setting up classic computers; as this event is being run in conjunction with our 'Circuit Hacking Mondays', there should also be at least one or two people around to help with the troubleshooting and repair of your favourite micro- or mini-computer. The space's electronics facilities include several soldering stations and CROs, PAL/SECAM/NTSC and analogue RGB monitors, a logic analyser and an (E)EPROM programmer. Depending on the demand, there may also be a PC capable of reading from, and writing to, most common 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disk and tape formats; we also have a fairly respectable collection of OS installation kits for many DEC, SUN, HP, SGI, IBM RS/6000, Apple, Commodore and Amiga systems. And for the particularly adventurous, the space also has a home-designed and built CNC milling machine and a RepRap 3D printer that could be used to machine or (literally) print replacement parts and panels. The space is located in Mount Lawley, and all are welcome. Advice and ideas are free; workshop use is free for members of the hackerspace, or $10 waged/$5 unwaged. See http://wiki.artifactory.org.au/doku.php?id=projects:classiccmp for more details of the event, and http://hackerspaces.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace for information about the hackerspace movement in general. Hope to see some of you there, Peter