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Paul Emerton has recently taken delivery of the remaining BBC's Special Projects Acorn kit and disc media with the job of recovering and archiving the material and building up the machines into working demos. Hopefully one or two will function well enough to loan to a museum on completion.

Paul will tell a few short stories about what the BBC used the kit for and then give a rough guide to what he plans to do.

1. Recovery of data
• Basic process
• Doing it on a no/low budget
• Risks of clicky HDDs
• Getting round the various challenges of different and dying media
2. Restoration of machines
• Dealing with batteries and corrosion
• Non-destructive case cleaning
• General restoring to working models
3. Feedback on processes / questions from the crowd
• What have other people done
• What could be done better
• Offers of help/advice

If Paul can get it running in time then he may also be able to demo something produced by the BBC graphics department on original hardware (PRISMA / APEX systems).