Thirty years on.

Those were better days. Can anyone imagine "Auntie" embarking on such an ambitious (not to mention useful) project today?

I learned to program on one of those. I loved my BBC micro

I got rid of all my BBC Micro (etc.) stuff about twenty months ago ... probably a mistake (yet another), but there you go.

Hacking infusion pumps and the like just hasn't held the same appeal, somehow.

Meanwhile, here's a bit more (including a nice shot of the NewBrain). Notice those other "thirty years old" stories under "Related stories" as well.

How about this for a fifty year old classic?

Hint: check out the Readme first.

Here's something which may be of interest to some folk:-

Disk Rot!

It's sad to think of so much classic software - especially home-grown one-off's - heading towards the bin. Stuff stored on data cassette tapes has faired just as badly (or worse) of course.

Luckily most of the good commercially produced stuff has already been saved as images and poked into various places around the 'net. And thankfully ROM-based stuff still marches on (and has been "imaged" as well)!