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SmaMan

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The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge
« on: September 07, 2013, 05:55:57 PM »
Anyone hear about/have been to this place? Seems pretty cool. It's a bit like those few Pinball/Arcade Hall of Fame museums we have in the states, except they really seem to excel in their home computing collections.

And judging by the pictures in this article, they've got at least a start on their Turbo collection, too!  :)

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/09/interview_exploring_the_centre_for_computing_history_cambridge
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Re: The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2013, 06:20:31 PM »
Cool. after 30273 speccy variants the tour is over :P

No kiddn. hehe.. is this permanent? Do they have Obey ware too? Didn't see any.
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Re: The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2013, 07:35:14 PM »
i will aim to visit this before december and report.
didn't even know it existed til now

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Re: The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2013, 09:27:15 PM »
It just opened this July. They're starting small, but managed to get all this together in time... quite impressive.
Cool. after 30273 speccy variants the tour is over :P

No kiddn. hehe.. is this permanent? Do they have Obey ware too? Didn't see any.
Looks to be permanent. And it seems that the founder already had an impressive Speccy collection, so why not put it on display?

I'm sure they have some Obey too. If you look they have a couple TG-16s in the pictures. They both look to be running Blazing Lazers if I'm not mistaken. Maybe one of us should help donate?
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Re: The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2013, 03:28:26 AM »
Cool. after 30273 speccy variants the tour is over :P

No kiddn. hehe.. is this permanent? Do they have Obey ware too? Didn't see any.


YEp there appears to be a (PAL? looks pal to me) turbob in the center there with BL.

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Re: The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2013, 05:01:08 AM »
Neato.  Thankfully they're not exclusionist twats like in the Smithsonian exhibit.
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Re: The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge
« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2013, 11:37:23 AM »
Or like how a similar exhibit in the Football Hall of Fame ONLY has the Madden series in it.

...I mean c'mon! Not even Tecmo?
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