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Event diary

This is a handy online calendar of RISC OS events happening throughout the year. Each event is labelled with a date, catagory, description and contact details for the organisers. The calendar is searchable and indexed. We'll list all major events and you can also submit details of other events too if you think we've overlooked something.

FTP archives

We're mirroring roughly 14GB of RISC OS software and related websites and it's available via HTTP and now FTP.

Reference material

Serving you schematics of older Acorn hardware, technical reference manuals for the RiscPC and other Acorn computers plus a collection of photos.

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Talk and discuss in real time with other drobe.co.uk readers.

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YAY - go drobe tim_firmager on 26/4/03 8:20PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Funny, I don't remember giving Drobe permission to copy my Acorn Cybervillage web site? Did they also ask the people using the other sections on this site too? You should know better Drobe, after all you guys use the (c) yourself. Can I sue? If you're going to 'archive' why not archive something like www.quantumsoft.co.uk? Don't Drobe know there is Megabytes of of useful files on that site? I'll expect an email very soon lads. quatermass on 26/4/03 11:40PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

The drobe backlash has started! *fight! fight! fight!* monkeyson on 26/4/03 11:51PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

The copyrights on your archived copy of the cybervillages are all perfectly preserved. Oh, dear. There appears to be a much larger copy of cybervillage on archive.org - perhaps you should sue them as well. [link]*/[link] Just look at that! -- Ian Hawkins (g0tai) piemmm on 27/4/03 12:28AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

FINISHED --00:32:45-- Downloaded: 65,240,354 bytes in 830 files Cheers for the quantumsoft site pointer - missed that one! Now been added to the Historical archives section. -- Ian Hawkins (g0tai) piemmm on 27/4/03 12:33AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Feel free to email us with any problems/concerns you have with copyright. Drobe respects copyright (as with us asking AcornUser permission to republish old AU mags), and the Historical archives section was created as we saw no copyright issues with it. -- Ian Hawkins (g0tai) piemmm on 27/4/03 12:38AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

i'm a cyber copyright punk ooh yea nex on 27/4/03 12:43AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Web sites are cached and archived all over the world on numerous servers. It's part of how the Web works, so Drobe and other sites making deliberate archives can hardly be deemed to break any copyright. -- Michael Stubbs, Leeds arenaman on 27/4/03 3:53AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Look at the bright side - having mirrors means less of your bandwidth gets eaten. nunfetishist on 27/4/03 12:34PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

It's not a mirror. They're archives. Mirrors get updated frequently, these don't. -- Ian Hawkins (g0tai) piemmm on 27/4/03 1:18PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

It's not a mirror. They're archives. Mirrors get updated frequently, these don't. -- Ian Hawkins (g0tai) piemmm on 27/4/03 1:18PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Cool. Clicking submit twice rocks -- Ian Hawkins (g0tai) piemmm on 27/4/03 1:19PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Same difference. nunfetishist on 27/4/03 3:22PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

The second post is an archive of the first! Or is it a mirror? monkeyson on 27/4/03 4:52PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

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