title The Retro Computer Festival, Centre For Computing History, Cambridge - 15th September 2018 intro Visiting the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge has been on the list for a while, but an email asking about references to the old Newbury/NewBear company out of the early 1980s from one of the curators leads to an invite to go along to their Retro Computer Day. Fred comes along too, to try out some of the old hardware and vintage computer games. After the nerd-fest, we meet back up with Isobel and Harry in the centre of Cambridge, before an almost-traditional visit to Pizza Express on Jesus Lane for tea. imgp4753 Fred plays Pac Man on a VIC-20 imgp4754 Fred looks up close on a mega-scale CPU imgp4755 Fred tries out an epic reconstruction of a CPU imgp4758 Fred plays golf on an Acorn Archimedes imgp4760 Fred is naturally drawn to the computerised Lego imgp4763 A Sinclair PC200 "Professional Series" imgp4764 ET in a Sinclair C5 imgp4765 Possibly the UK's largest collection of NewBrains imgp4769 An original Atari Pong - the Grandaddy of all imgp4770 An Exidy Sourceror imgp4772 Someone lifts the lid of a Commodore 800 imgp4773 The American Spectrum - the Timex 1500 imgp4774 A room full of vintage hardware imgp4776 A DEC PDP-11 imgp4778 A bit of Acorn history, featuring the ARM1 imgp4779 A signed BBC Micro imgp4780 Sinclair's MK-14 imgp4782 Fred uses a rare laserdisc of the Domesday Project imgp4785 In a recreation of a late 1970s office imgp4786 Fred roams around imgp4788 Fred in the games room imgp4790 There's a working Altair 8800 imgp4791 Fred sits on the floor imgp4792 Fred is fascinated by a punched tape reader imgp4795 A version of Joseph Weizebaum's legendary Eliza imgp4799 Fred's on another vintage computer imgp4800 Back in the main museum room imgp4802 Fred plays Chuckie Egg on a BBC Micro imgp4803 An RM 380Z imgp4805 Fred's back on the golf imgp4807 There's some sort of interview going on imgp4810 The train from Ipswich rumbles past imgp4812 Fred climbs on a sculpture outside Carluccio's imgp4813 Fred by a sculpture imgp4815 Isobel and Harry return from a shopping spree imgp4816 Posters outside the Corn Exchange imgp4817 There's the usual chaos going on outside King's imgp4818 Funky entrance to a nightclub imgp4822 Harry and Isobel in Pizza Express on Jesus Lane imgp4823 Harry in Pizza Express imgp4827 On Jesus Lane imgp4829 The boys on All Saints Passage imgp4830 All Saints Garden craft market looks very autumnal imgp4831 The entrance to St. John's College imgp4832 On Trinity Street imgp4833 The main entrance to Trinity College imgp4835 Trinity Lane imgp4836 Punts on the Cam imgp4838 There's still some late-season punting to be had imgp4841 More punts in a line imgp4843 Clare College imgp4845 The Cam by Clare College imgp4847 There's a photo-shoot on Senate House Passage imgp4849 Metal sculpture outside Great St. Mary's imgp4851 There's a herd of sponsored walkers imgp4852 Sponsored walkers on Corn Exchange Street