(eat your heart out, Apple!)
The Wakefield Spring Show '97 was the first to take place at the Thornes Park Athletics Stadium, and was held on 17th and 18th May 1997. The photographs presented here were mostly taken on Saturday, 17th May and were used in a report which appeared in RISC User 10:7.
The captions used here are the ones that were suggested for use in the magazine; further comments appear in italics.
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An appallingly blurry picture of iSV Products' Aaron Timbrell |
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Acorn's walk-through stand occupied the central position |
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Argo's Cybership stand was particularly nicely laid out |
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Acorn's NC was looking good, and is now available to buy |
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An NC remote-control handset (unfortunately, a rather fuzzy picture) |
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Acorn's most enticing preview: a colour portable |
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The new A7000+ was one of the main attractions of Acorn’s stand |
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Beebug demonstrated the latest version of Ovation Pro |
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A.C.E. of Germany was clearly tired of the boring, grey Risc PC case (eat your heart out, Apple!) |
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The R-Comp stand, doing brisk trade in the foreground |
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TBA's Brutal Horse Power was on show in the games arcade |
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The show was crammed with visitors, though they didn't all look exactly friendly! |
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Acorn staff were on hand to answer questions about the A7000+ and other new products |
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A long shot of the hall |
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Acorn was demonstrating lots of exciting new software and hardware |
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LOOKsystems launched Font Directory Professional |
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Jon Duddingtom was demonstrating Speak, now with local accents! |
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The Thornes Park Stadium was comfortably spacious |
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RISC User's Marshal Anderson in mid-flow |
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He may look like he was asleep, but Peter Bondar kept us on the edges of our seats! |