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    From Alexander Ausserstorfer@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 2 11:51:25 2025
    There is currently a thread in de.alt.folklore.computer about the
    legendary Acorn Archimedes.

    There I told the story in which I did a ride about 800 km from my home to
    visit another Acorn or RISC OS user in Pagny-Sur-Mosel, France.

    He came to Metz with his own bicycle and helped me to organise the
    home-trip by train before we rode together to his home.

    He took two pictures of me at the train station in Metz:

    http://home.chiemgau-net.de/ausserstorfer/Temp/2025-02-01/LaGareMetz1.JPG
    (73 kB)

    http://home.chiemgau-net.de/ausserstorfer/Temp/2025-02-01/LaGareMetz2.JPG
    (87 kB)

    A.

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  • From Stuart@21:1/5 to Alexander Ausserstorfer on Sun Feb 2 13:00:03 2025
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Alexander Ausserstorfer <[email protected]> wrote:
    There is currently a thread in de.alt.folklore.computer about the
    legendary Acorn Archimedes.

    There I told the story in which I did a ride about 800 km from my home to visit another Acorn or RISC OS user in Pagny-Sur-Mosel, France.

    He came to Metz with his own bicycle and helped me to organise the
    home-trip by train before we rode together to his home.

    He took two pictures of me at the train station in Metz:

    http://home.chiemgau-net.de/ausserstorfer/Temp/2025-02-01/LaGareMetz1.JPG
    (73 kB)

    http://home.chiemgau-net.de/ausserstorfer/Temp/2025-02-01/LaGareMetz2.JPG
    (87 kB)

    Thanks Alex, it's always nice to be able to put a face to posters. Some
    people I have met at Acorn shows but many are just names.

    --
    Stuart Winsor

    Tools With A Mission
    sending tools across the world
    http://www.twam.co.uk/

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 2 21:14:19 2025
    In Nachricht <[email protected]>
    Alexander Ausserstorfer <[email protected]> haben
    Sie geschrieben:

    There is currently a thread in de.alt.folklore.computer about the
    legendary Acorn Archimedes.

    There I told the story in which I did a ride about 800 km from my home to visit another Acorn or RISC OS user in Pagny-Sur-Mosel, France.

    He came to Metz with his own bicycle and helped me to organise the
    home-trip by train before we rode together to his home.

    He took two pictures of me at the train station in Metz:

    http://home.chiemgau-net.de/ausserstorfer/Temp/2025-02-01/LaGareMetz1.JPG
    (73 kB)

    http://home.chiemgau-net.de/ausserstorfer/Temp/2025-02-01/LaGareMetz2.JPG
    (87 kB)

    A.

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    http://home.chiemgau-net.de/ausserstorfer/

    Hallo Alex,

    nice story, while remembering on my own "first contact" with an
    Archimedes.
    With our "Physik-Leistungs-Kurs" (something like an obligation to vote
    a course in preparation for th german "Abitur") we made a bicycle-tour
    through south-germany (this was 1986 or so, I think...). In Heidelberg
    I saw an very interesting and "futuristic" computer in the shop window
    of a small computerstore. Yes, you guessed right: an Archimedes (must
    have been an 3xx). This fascinated me so much, that I begun to save
    every Pfennig an D-Mark, so that in 1989 I had enough money, to send
    an order to the computerstore in Heidelberg. After some days my very
    own first A410/1 arrived! ARM3, 4MB memory, 40MB-HD (!), RISC OS 2 and
    a Pascal-Compiler. The "topped with whipped cream" of a Tystar 14"- Colour-Multisync was excellent. This was really the Cray-computer for
    the poor ;-) ..
    My A410 is still here in my office and still working :-) .


    Greetings,
    Juergen

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  • From druck@21:1/5 to Alexander Ausserstorfer on Mon Feb 3 20:40:57 2025
    On 02/02/2025 10:51, Alexander Ausserstorfer wrote:
    There I told the story in which I did a ride about 800 km from my home to visit another Acorn or RISC OS user in Pagny-Sur-Mosel, France.

    My longest trip to see another RISC OS user was over 10,000 miles! I'd mentioned on the newsgroups that I was going to be on holiday touring Australia, and got an invite to stay the night at a homestead in the
    outback, somewhere on the drive between Brisbane and Sydney! A great experience.

    ---druck

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