Informal Christmas meal at ROUGOL – 16th December

There might not be any room at the inn restaurant upstairs. With December being a busy month in popular restaurants, the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) tends not to arrange a formal speaker for its last meeting of the year. Instead, the group meets more informally, albeit still in line with the regular schedule. That meeting will therefore take place on Monday, 16th December, 2019, from around 7:45pm.

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Midlands User Group delves into shared files – 16th November

The Midlands User Group (MUG) looked at the various means of accessing network connections wirelessly at their September meeting, and had intended to move neatly from that onto the subject of sharing data and files with other computers, even other platforms. However, limited time meant the meeting only covered the connectivity options, and didn’t touch on file sharing at all – so that has been settled on as a topic in its own right for the next meeting, which will take place on Saturday, 16th November.

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News nybble: Southampton meeting – 12th November

The Southampton RISC OS User Group (SROUG) will next be meeting up on Tuesday, 12th November. There is no attendance fee, and everyone is welcome – whether to simply discuss RISC OS generally, or some specific aspect, to seek help with an issue or show off something they’re working on. There should be at least one small network of RISC OS computers, hopefully with internet access to the world beyond. The meeting will run from 7:00pm until 9:00pm in the Sports Centre of Itchen College, Deacon Road, Southampton – once…

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Chris Cox visits Wakefield to talk Acorn, ART, the Clan, and more – 6th November

While the company ceased to be an entity in its own right over twenty years ago, the legacy of Acorn Computers lives on. Not just with its most important technological innovation, the ARM chip, now being ubiquitous – but also because RISC OS, the computing platform it built around that chip, is still used, developed, and promoted, even though the dedicated community of followers and users is very small.

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