Wakefield Acorn & RiscOS Computer Show
It was the Acorn and RiscOS show in Wakefield. I've not been before but I have heard about it and now we're not living too far away it's become more realistic to get to. For a platform whose original creating company died 12 years ago, there is still a devoted if small following. Not only are people still interested in using the machines and OS, but people have taken over development of the OS and there are now two streams of RiscOS development, one through Castle Technologies who bought the rights to the OS and hardware designs and also produced new RiscOS computers in the form of the Iyonix, and http://riscosopen.org who are tasked with releasing RiscOS as an open source project. Interestingly the RiscosOpen project has produced ports of RiscOs which run on netbooks and also platforms such as Beagleboard. There were also people exhibiting older 8 bit computers such as the BBC B and Master. There are people out there now producing new storage solutio...