Wakefield 2015 date now known

Time to think about heading North. Unless it’s South of where you are. The Wakefield Show website has been updated1, and is now displaying the date of the 2015 show. As suggested in the 2014 show report, that date of the event is 25th April, 2015 – the day before the 30th anniversary of the first piece of code being run on the ARM1 processor, which happened on 26th April, 1985. That’s not the only significant birthday, though, because this will also be the twentieth show organised by the Wakefield…

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From RiscPC to Raspberry Pi at the September WROCC meeting

Yet more attention for the RiscPC, which really only wanted to celebrate quietly, with family and close friends. With the RiscPC having celebrated its 20th birthday earlier this year, the next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club will feature Peter Richmond taking a look back at some of the hardware expansion options that have been available in that time for Acorn’s iconic and most powerful computer.

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Wakefield club offers meeting videos for remote members

You can virtually attend meetings – but with no interaction. Just like TV! The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club have come up with a new way to encourage membership from afar – by allowing members to virtually attend meetings, albeit after they’ve happened. In other words, they’re making videos of meetings available online for those people who are unable to attend in person.

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Show Report: Wakefield 2014

I never knew the RiscPC tasted so good! This year’s big RISC OS event in the North – the Wakefield Show – took place on 26th April, so it is once again time to put pen to paper fingers to keyboard, and write about it for the benefit of those who were unable to attend. As usual, the show took place in the Cedar Court Hotel, Denby Dale Road, just off junction 39 of the M1 – the same venue in which it started some eighteen years ago (making this…

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