The Cambridge Dragon Meetup - June 3rd
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 8:27 am
Hi all,
Those of you that follow the Dragon Facebook group will have seen my innocent post asking if anyone local fancies a coffee, and how it transformed into a plan for a meetup for users of Dragons (and other 6809 based machines) at Cambridge's Centre for Computing History.
We've got access to their 'classroom' (a space with desks) on Saturday 3rd June, and the backing and support of the Museum. I imagine it'll run most of the day, and costs will just be the museum's normal admission charge.
This is an opportunity to show what a thriving community we still are, after all these years - as well as show off some rare artifacts from the past.
From the past we should have Richard Harding's Dragon Professional, plus a number of other bits (my expansion cage, a rare Dragon branded modem cart) - anything else would be much appreciated. I've also got a Fujitsu FM-7, a Thomson TO-7 and a Coco 3 to demonstrate other 6809 systems.
From more modern projects, we should have:
My 576K Dragon running Fuzix (using Tormod's Spinx512 card)
A CocoSDC based system with Pere's DOS and the SDCX shell
Tormod's Drivewire USB box
Phill (Prime)'s MMC demo
A 'Draco' (a machine that's switchable between being a Dragon and a Coco)
On the software side, I can show off:
Pere and co's Hobbit port
Bosco's Flagon Bird
Pere/Stew/Me's work on the Orch90 cart (and if anyone can help me get it working with my Orch90 cart and bring a Multi-pak, I'd love to see it working with hardware for the first time).
I'm absolutely sure I've forgotten some projects, both hardware and software (please forgive me!), so please make suggestions, send me software, get in touch.
If you can come, please let me know, so I can get an idea for numbers. If you want to bring hardware, again, let me know so I can tell the museum how much space we'd like.
I hope to meet many of you for the first time in June!
Tony
Those of you that follow the Dragon Facebook group will have seen my innocent post asking if anyone local fancies a coffee, and how it transformed into a plan for a meetup for users of Dragons (and other 6809 based machines) at Cambridge's Centre for Computing History.
We've got access to their 'classroom' (a space with desks) on Saturday 3rd June, and the backing and support of the Museum. I imagine it'll run most of the day, and costs will just be the museum's normal admission charge.
This is an opportunity to show what a thriving community we still are, after all these years - as well as show off some rare artifacts from the past.
From the past we should have Richard Harding's Dragon Professional, plus a number of other bits (my expansion cage, a rare Dragon branded modem cart) - anything else would be much appreciated. I've also got a Fujitsu FM-7, a Thomson TO-7 and a Coco 3 to demonstrate other 6809 systems.
From more modern projects, we should have:
My 576K Dragon running Fuzix (using Tormod's Spinx512 card)
A CocoSDC based system with Pere's DOS and the SDCX shell
Tormod's Drivewire USB box
Phill (Prime)'s MMC demo
A 'Draco' (a machine that's switchable between being a Dragon and a Coco)
On the software side, I can show off:
Pere and co's Hobbit port
Bosco's Flagon Bird
Pere/Stew/Me's work on the Orch90 cart (and if anyone can help me get it working with my Orch90 cart and bring a Multi-pak, I'd love to see it working with hardware for the first time).
I'm absolutely sure I've forgotten some projects, both hardware and software (please forgive me!), so please make suggestions, send me software, get in touch.
If you can come, please let me know, so I can get an idea for numbers. If you want to bring hardware, again, let me know so I can tell the museum how much space we'd like.
I hope to meet many of you for the first time in June!
Tony