The South West Show is dead – long live The South West Show

This year’s RISC OS South West Show almost didn’t happen. Paul Middleton of RISCOS Ltd, the show’s organiser for the last few years, revealed recently that he normally waits for the Webbington Hotel, the show’s usual venue, to reduce the prices of the rooms in which the show can be held – and it seems even more recently (early January, according to Archive 23:4, p4), Paul said that he wouldn’t be organising another show. Richard Brown of Orpheus Internet soon stepped up, with Andrew Rawnsley and R-Comp joining him to…

RISC OS London Show – final countdown

It is now just a few days until the RISC OS London Show, 2010, organised by ROUGOL – the RISC OS User Group of London – which takes place on October 23rd at the St Giles Hotel, Feltham. Doors are open to the public from 11am until 5pm, with tickets costing £5 on the door. Directions can be found on both the show website’s venue page as well as the hotel’s own website, and Tim Hill has posted some detailed directions on comp.sys.acorn.misc based on knowledge gained from occasionally working…

Mailing lists

RISCOSitory.com hosts a number of mailing lists for RISC OS related subjects on its sister domain, RISCOSitory.co.uk: A9Home Users – an unofficial self help and discussion list for users of the A9Home computer. AppBasic Users – a mailing list for users of AppBasic and DrawScript by Joe Taylor. Aw-software-discuss – a mailing list for discussion of Alan Wrigley’s R-Comp software – Hermes, Uniserver, Safestore, and Delegate. Bristol RISC OS Users – a mailing list for RISC OS users in and around Bristol and the wider surrounding area. Chrstian RISC OS…