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Blasts from the past...
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Back in the golden days, when a BBC Master was the epitome of computing power and every enthusiast owned a 'lucky' soldering iron... Here is a list of some events from the past years of CompSoc (was usoc, MicroSoc, St John's Computer Society).
Michaelmas Term 1996Lecture on Computer Aided Disaster by Dr. Peter Mellor...Paul Leyland on PGP and how to break it... Various World Wide Web practical sessions... Presentation by Camelot on the Lottery computer systems... Institutions evening with the BCS and IEE... Julian Ellison on controlling the Web via a mobile 'phone and more... Trinity Term 1996Presentation of the Pentium Linux server by Progress Computer Systems...Careers presentation by Government Communications Headquarters... Visit to Bletchley Park (site of WWII code breaking)... Visit to the Demon Internet operations center... Punt Party on the Cherwell... Hilary Term 1996A visit to the British Telecom operations centre...Our first World Wide Web Treasure Hunt... Michaelmas Term 1995A lecture on Linux from local expert Malcom Beattie...A lecture by Acorn Computers... A joint 'event' with the Acorn Users Group... A visit to the Computer Shopper Show... Trinity Term 1995Wild punt party (even without alcohol)...Michaelmas Term 1994A lecture and Demonstration by Acorn Computers...Visits to the Acorn World and christmas Computer Shopper shows...
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