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.

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RapidO Ti to be launched at the Southwest Show (updated)

The first full computer to be based around the Titanium motherboard from Elesar Ltd will be launched at the Southwest Show on Saturday. The computer is to be called the RapidO Ti, as already revealed, and comes from the little shop with a lot of stock, CJE Micro’s – and Chris Evans says they’ll have some on the day that customers will be able to take away with them.

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New Raspberry Pi model released today

Not quite as cheap as chips – but not far off at all! When the Raspberry Pi was first announced, some people joked about its proposed price, saying things like if it was much cheaper, it wouldn’t be long before a computer was included as a free gift in a box of breakfast cereal. And while that hasn’t happened – yet – today saw something not that far removed: A computer provided as a free cover gift on a magazine.

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Recycle Acorn/RISC OS hardware or software at Wakefield

Announcement from Chris Evans, 23rd April, 2015. We have now booked a van to take to the Wakefield Show on Saturday, so if you want to buy any larger items please let us know and we will bring them. We can also recycle most old Acorn/RISC OS hardware/software items in the best possible way, by finding someone who wants to use them for their original purpose 🙂

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