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  • Anyone seen the "last 8 bit entrepreneur" recently?

    From Gryzor@21:1/5 to Craig Harrison on Sat May 7 03:46:44 2016
    On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 9:03:39 PM UTC+3, Craig Harrison wrote:
    Hi All,

    A shot in the dark here.....

    The guys over at CPCWiki.org are tryingto collect a full set of WACCI
    mags scanned and uploaded, But due to the nature of the web we would
    like permission from the current rights holder before doing this.

    I was therefore wondering if anyone had noticed Brian Watson around
    these parts lately?

    Craig

    Ah, great idea asking here, didn't occur to me! Indeed maybe some old timers could help...

    And of course, if anyone could lend any issues to be scanned, that'd be awesome too :)

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  • From Matthew Phillips@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 7 12:10:16 2016
    In message <7ea58886-3458-40dc-b2d8-20284506b5ab@googlegroups.com>
    on 7 May 2016 Gryzor wrote:

    On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 9:03:39 PM UTC+3, Craig Harrison wrote:

    The guys over at CPCWiki.org are tryingto collect a full set of WACCI
    mags scanned and uploaded, But due to the nature of the web we would
    like permission from the current rights holder before doing this.

    I was therefore wondering if anyone had noticed Brian Watson around
    these parts lately?

    Ah, great idea asking here, didn't occur to me! Indeed maybe some old
    timers could help...

    And of course, if anyone could lend any issues to be scanned, that'd be awesome too :)

    Which issues are you lacking?

    --
    Matthew Phillips
    Durham

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  • From Gryzor@21:1/5 to Matthew Phillips on Sat May 7 10:42:09 2016
    On Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 6:21:15 PM UTC+3, Matthew Phillips wrote:

    Which issues are you lacking?

    --
    Matthew Phillips
    Durham

    I'd say the first 85... and 113-145; not that good :(

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  • From David Cantrell@21:1/5 to Craig Harrison on Wed May 11 11:37:52 2016
    On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 07:03:36PM +0100, Craig Harrison wrote:

    I was therefore wondering if anyone had noticed Brian Watson around
    these parts lately?

    google://brian+watson+ely+cambridgeshire throws up some
    promising-looking results.

    --
    David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information

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  • From sam.holloway@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Craig Harrison on Wed May 25 15:39:26 2016
    On Friday, 6 May 2016 19:03:39 UTC+1, Craig Harrison wrote:
    Hi All,

    A shot in the dark here.....

    The guys over at CPCWiki.org are tryingto collect a full set of WACCI
    mags scanned and uploaded, But due to the nature of the web we would
    like permission from the current rights holder before doing this.

    I was therefore wondering if anyone had noticed Brian Watson around
    these parts lately?

    I've not seen him post here for a long time; nor in the cam.* groups where he was very active in the past.

    The address in his old signature is only a couple of miles from where I live so if you hear nothing, I could try making local enquiries.

    Sam

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  • From brianimagebus@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Craig Harrison on Fri Mar 17 05:17:01 2017
    On Friday, 6 May 2016 19:03:39 UTC+1, Craig Harrison wrote:
    Hi All,

    A shot in the dark here.....

    The guys over at CPCWiki.org are tryingto collect a full set of WACCI
    mags scanned and uploaded, But due to the nature of the web we would
    like permission from the current rights holder before doing this.

    I was therefore wondering if anyone had noticed Brian Watson around
    these parts lately?

    Craig

    Oi, Craig! I'm over here!

    By REMARKABLE coincidence, I just looked in here for the first time in ... oh, about 10 years, I think.

    I am still alive, just retired from full-time work, and so am reasonably free to get interested in CPCs and PCWs again.

    As far as I'm concerned as the last one holding the keys when WACCI folded, I have no objection to copies being scanned and uploaded. Indeed, it would save ME a job! :-)

    That said, if the guys are short of any issues, I think I still have a full printed set.

    I am already thinking of scanning and uploading copies of my long-dead 8BIT magazine when I do get some free time. If the CPCWiki.org guys would like to host that, I'd be grateful and would put some money into the pot to help that side of things. Please
    put them in touch if you know them.

    I have kept up the WACCI_INF@hotmail.com email address so anyone who wants to contact me can find me there, via the email address I used to post this, or at the new Facebook page I see has been set up. I just sent an Application To Join that so it may be
    a while before I am visible there.

    As I don't have a free Newsgroup account any more and am too tight to start one now, please regard this as my last posting here for AT LEAST another 10 years.

    :-)

    Love and Fishes to everyone.
    --
    Brian Watson (the last 8-bit entrepreneur, unless you know different)

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