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Car is packed and am on the 4 hour journey to the event :shock:

Hope everything goes great guys, have a fab time, and maybe next year I might just make it!!

My daughter & I are now in Loughborough Uni for the open day.
My car lost a wing mirror and some paint due to a bread lorry pulling out into the side of the car ( no injuries though) so ended up completing the journey in my wife's car...was thinking about @alexh having the bump for CL2 and wondering if this is going to be a recurring theme!

Do hope you all have fun & looking forward to reading about it later.

Despite, or maybe because of the lower turn out, fun was had by all. Lots of time for chatting and a great "round table" discussion.

I only took a couple of pictures:


It was a nice village hall venue with plenty of parking and easy to find.

There were more pizza's than people.

We only just avoided kidnapping the Domino's delivery drivers to make up the numbers.

Still it was a lovely afternoon. I even got to see
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=97019
running on an actual Sinclair QL.

Definitely would like to come back next year, the venue worked for me as well.

Yep, was a really good afternoon today spent with you all. Props for everything. Hopefully the venue can be used again for future events - being a bit larger than the previous venue in Weston Favell things do look promising.

Cheers,

Rich.

elterwater wrote: 10 Sep 2024 22:27 Spectator and raffle ticket bought, I'll try to pop in for a nosy if I can. Wanted to support the event with the raffle ticket even if I don't attend :D

Hello!
It was lovely to meet you all this afternoon, even if it was very brief!

Thank you to everyone who made the journey today and for such a warm and friendly reception. It was great to see so much kit up and running with some passionate talks by their owners/custodians.

I will probably regret for years not finding room for the kind offer of an Indigo case to take away, but I will certainly cherish my CyberLegends badge!

Great meeting and chatting with every one who came along to the event yesterday. It was a good time with a great round table discussion at the end chewing the fat on where things may be going and what’s in store for the future.

Was blown away with the setup @stephen_usher brought along demonstrating a telephone exchange for dial up of several QLs and One Desk to show Ceefax with current live news. If you haven’t got a step by step write up on this already I would be interested as it was an interesting project to tinker with.

Well, I used the following:

• https://glasstty.com/building-a-standal ... bled-pabx/
• https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic ... 7&start=60
• https://github.com/peterkvt80/vbit2

So, first I bought from eBay a Mediatrix phone line to VoIP gateway device for £30 inc. delivery, which was a bit of a steal. I set that up and then installed Asterisk PBX as per the instructions on the GlassTTY blog and pointed the gateway device to that. That gave the phone lines and the soft modems. At this point you can directly access over the Internet the Telstar service and from there a few of the other services, such as Teefax.

To serve my own pages I installed the vbit2 system on the Raspberry Pi, turning off the display service and turning on the socket interface. On the Pi4 and above you have to make sure you turn off the options it adds to /boot/firmware/config.txt which tries to force the use of TV mode as you'll get no console display when you reboot. The Pi4 and above don't have composite video output, which vbit2 is trying to use to send Teletext to a TV.

The vbit2 software installation will help you set up clones of teletext page repositories from Github. You can then set up a cron job to synchronise the local cache periodically.

Once you have this you can set up the tclsh script from the Stardot post to point to the repository cache and set up a socket for it to listen on. Once you have this you can define a virtual telephone number with a soft modem to point at this socket for data.

You can now connect your old computer with a V23 or V22bis to one of the phone lines and dial up one of the virtual modems.