Chap who may or may not be from the future talks about equipment from the past1. The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) is one that will be worth a visit from anyone interested in the recovery and restoration of old Acorn kit and material found on disc media, and archiving that material for posterity – in particular, equipment and media that was used by the BBC in their ‘Special Projects’ unit.
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Chris Evans guest at Surrey and Sussex User Group meeting
The meeting’s tonight – so this is a last minute, RapidO post! The next meeting of SASAUG, the Surrey and Sussex Acorn User Group, takes place on Monday, 9th May, and according to an announcement only just received here at the RISCOSitory bunker, the meeting will have Chris Evans of CJE Micro’s along as a guest speaker, with the subject being the Eastwood RapidO Ig and RapidO Ti computers.
Read MoreSouthampton and Bristol May meetings
Southampton, 10. Bristol, 11. Wait, sorry, no – those are dates, not scores. Tuesday, 10th May is the date of this month’s Southampton RISC OS User Group meeting. Organised as usual by Dave Higton, the meeting will run from around 7:00pm until around 9:00pm, and everyone is welcome to attend. So, with free admittance, if you’re in or around Southampton the place you’ll want to head for is:
Read MoreWakefield group looks at sound emulation on 4th May
If it’s only emulated, will it only give you a virtual headache? The next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club takes place on Wednesday, 4th May, and the topic of the meeting will be sound emulation, with a presentation on the subject to be given by Ian Stanley.
Read MoreThree meetings in the next few days: RONWUG, MUG, and ROUGOL
It’s not like they’re buses or anything, but… Three user group meetings will be taking place over the next few days, with the first of the three – RONWUG – taking place tonight. The second will be the MUG meeting on Saturday, and the third the ROUGOL meeting on Monday. So, a quick look at all three in that order:
Read MoreRISC OS for Pi-nuts at ROUGOL, 15th February
AKA: RISC OS on the cheap. The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group of London will take place on Monday, 15th February, and the meeting’s presentation – with the multi-puntastic title “RISC OS for Pi-nuts” – will be presented by Peter Howkins and Bryan Hogan. The pair will be looking at ways to run RISC OS without having to run up a large bill to do so.
Read MoreSouthampton RISC OS User Group meeting – February
It’s time for those Itchen for a meeting in Southampton to get together again… The second Tuesday of each month is the customary date for Southampton-based RISC OS users to get together for a meeting – so it’s no surprise to see an announcement from Dave Higton to say that the next meeting is to take place on 9th February.
Read MoreRONWUG reminder: Wednesday, 20th January
Announcement from Steve Potts, 18th January, 2016. RONWUG – RISC OS North West User Group – 20th January 2016 RONWUG‘s next meeting is this Wednesday, and we’re hoping there will be no further venue disruption. Work appeared to be almost complete in November, but Plan B is still ready to put into action should the need be required.
Read MoreMUG meeting and repair workshop – 16th January
All you need: A used washing up liquid bottle, some sticky-back plastic, and a pair of scissors. Again.1 The next meeting of the Midlands User Group takes place tomorrow (16th January), and will feature a hardware repair workshop in which the group will be looking at resurrecting and repairing some older RISC OS hardware.
Read MoreSouthampton user group meeting – January 12th
Announcement from Dave Higton, 9th January, 2015. The next meeting of the Southampton RISC OS Users Group will take place on Tuesday, January 12th, in the Sports Centre of Itchen College, Deacon Road, Southampton, from 19:00 until 21:00.
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