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This event has moved location! Please note that it is no longer running at the Centre for Computing History, but at the Cambridge Museum of Technology.

We're very sad to announce we can't host this year's Dragon Meetup, because the works on our roof have overrun. However, the wonderful people at the Cambridge Museum of Technology have stepped in and offered to host the event for us. They can be found a short walk from the centre, in their beautiful riverside setting, a link to their Getting Their page detailing how to get there by bike, foot and bus can be found here:

https://www.museumoftechnology.com/getting-here

There may also be local street parking with meters in the streets around the museum, and also the Tesco car park in Cheddars lane, and the Newmarket road retail parks, but do be careful of the time restrictions, they are strictly observed!

Visitors to the Dragon event will be subject to the full entrance fee for the Museum of Technology, Link is here:

https://www.museumoftechnology.com/opening-hours-prices

The Museum of Technology is a fascinating look at the industrial heritage of Cambridge, so will be a perfect setting to this year's event

**Please do not come to the Centre for parking, due to the building works, we are not able to accommodate cars at the museum**

The Dragon was always a programmer's machine. With a proper keyboard, a good basic and a great processor (the 6809), plus a simple architecture, the Dragon was the introduction into programming for many a bedroom coder.

We'll be showing Dragon 32s running games - both old and new. We'll be showing Dragon 64s running Flex and OS/9, the two professional operating systems available in the 80s, plus 80 column Dragon Plus systems to show the machine's true potential. We even hope to be running a version of multi-user Unix!

 Of course, it's not all about the past. The Dragon is still a simple machine to program, and new software is being produced all the time. Come meet the people who still develop new games and utilities and see the very latest software!

 We'll have plenty of hardware on show. There'll be VGA, RGB and 80 Column upgrades, plus a first chance to see the Sprite board too (Dragon meets MSX!). 

 Hopefully we'll also have some Dragon prototypes, the Thorn EMI Liberator and other exotic Dragons and peripherals from the last 35 years.

 We'll also have a collection of other 6809 machines from all over the world (well, Japan and France!) to show you the versitility of this amazing 8-bit processor.

 If you have a Dragon or other 6809 machine you'd like to bring or some software you'd like to demonstrate, please drop a line to tony@computinghistory.org.uk - we'd love to hear from you.

Time: 10.30am - 4pm on Saturday and Sunday.