Hi,
I think eleven of us turned up through the evening, though not everyone
was there at once, and one of those was a girlfriend. :-) Initially
there was some function on and it was packed, but it emptied a lot after
half an hour or so.
Just a few of the things that got mentioned.
A book on an early British computer.
A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the world's first office
computer
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Called-LEO-worlds-computer/dp/1841151858
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/1621204
A Sheevaplug computer with a small touch screen connected through
DisplayLink over USB.
http://www.newit.co.uk/shop/proddetail.php?prod=GUI_Plug
A free talk this Thursday in Weymouth on the RepRap 3D printer by its
creator, Adrian Bowyer of the Bowyer-Watson algorithm for computing
Voronoi diagrams.
http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/south/dorset-wilts/weynovreprap.cfm
http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Bowyer
(Some of us have been to IET talks before at Weymouth, e.g. on Bletchley
Park or IBM's Cell processor.)
Cheers,
Ralph.
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