The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be:

Acorn Biography
Presented by Rob Napier

Monday 15th December 2025, 7:45pm

*Online only* via Zoom, meeting open from 7.30pm

https://rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/


In a break with tradition, ROUGOL are having a Christmas meeting! However because the pub is always very busy at this time of year, this will be an ONLINE ONLY meeting.

We will be joined by Rob Napier, who will be Zooming in from the little
hamlet of Nicholson, 300km east of Melbourne. Forty years ago Rob resigned
his Air Force commission to join Barson Computers, who were importing
Acorn Atoms at the time. Rob then introduced the BBC Micro to Australia,
and wrote the definitive guide to Econet (recently republished, twice!).

More recently he has been spending every waking hour researching and
writing Voices from a Future Passed, the official biography of Acorn Computers. This will chart the story from the early days of Cambridge Processor Unit through to Acorn's rise and transition to ARM and
Element14, telling the stories through the voices of those who were there.

He has been busy chatting to all his old colleagues including Hermann
Hauser, Chris Curry, Andy Hopper, Steve Furber, Sophie Wilson, Chris
Turner, Brian Cockburn, Hugo Tyson, and many others. He has got all the
behind the scenes gossip and collected hundreds of pages of previously confidential information, some of which he will be sharing with us.

Rob is planning to keep the formal talk quite short and then let the
direction of the meeting be guided by what people want to hear more about. Take a look at the list of chapter titles that are in this post on the
StarDot forum and have your questions ready:

https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=468266#p468266

The manuscript is currently going through final acceptance tests and Rob
is hoping to have it published next year. Watch this space...


Contact us to receive the Zoom link to the meeting:

https://rougol.jellybaby.net/contacts/

If you have attended any previous meeting, it's the same link this month.

If you need any further information, please contact us as below.

RISC OS User Group Of London rougol2025@helpful-demon.co.uk https://rougol.jellybaby.net/ @rougol.bsky.social 07970 211 629


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