Hi. This is my first time on your site. I really like what you are doing here. Thanks for the opportunity to tell you about this project.
Tied to the launch of a new biography on 1 March this year, a portion of sales will be donated to computer and technology museums and other not-for-profit retro computing interest groups.
VOICES FROM A FUTURE PASSED tells the story of how the BBC Computer Literacy Project catapulted Acorn Computers into the history books. It presents stories from key people at the BBC, and engineers, scientists and mathematicians at the University of Cambridge and Acorn Computers in Cambridge and Silicon Valley.
Key people involved in that period have contributed their stories, and backed by original correspondence, this work presents an informative and entertaining record of events in the closing years of the 20th Century.
Beginning in the mid-sixties, when Christopher Curry joined Clive Sinclair, and later started businesses with Hermann Hauser and Sir Andy Hopper, it records many of the events until Arm Limited was spun off in a joint venture with Apple and VLSI Technology (to capitalise on the ARM chip’s development).
This work also discusses the contributions of other companies that produced semiconductors and computers in the UK, USA, and elsewhere during the period when Acorn produced the BBC Microcomputer, the ARM chip, and other developments.
The promotion in brief: Each purchaser of Voices from a Future Passed can nominate a favourite museum or retro computer group and submit proof-of-purchase details.
The aims of this program are to promote computer and technology museums and not-for-profit retro computing groups and to donate a portion of each sale that is purchased online through Amazon.
Encourage supporters to nominate a beneficiary on www.doitonce.net.au after they have purchased from Amazon.
A number of internationally recognised museums will benefit from this promotion, including The National Museum of Computing and the Centre for Computing History, If you know of other groups that could benefit from this promotion, I’d love to hear from them.
Many thanks
Rob Napier