Our fellow member Geoff Balls will talk on Cray Computing. Who was Seymor Cray? By 1960, at the age of 34, Seymour Cray had established his reputation for genius in designing high performance computers. He had completed the design of the Control Data 1604, the first computer to be fully transistorized and had begun the design of the first system that earned the title of supercomputer, the CDC 6600 which was also the first major system to employ three-dimensional packaging and an instruction set that was later to be referred to as RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer). Find out what he got up to before he sadly died after a car accident in 1996 on August 24th.

This Bank Holiday Monday, we will be taking a stand at the Carshalton Eco Fair, in Carshalton Park to raise our profile locally and promote SMSC, we will be on stand N04 nestled between The Sutton African & Caribbean Cultural Org and Antares Concepts Ltd.

Dave Moore will speak on his experiences working for the London Fire Brigade and on the Thames Fire Boat service

Peter Clark talks about how he got into sailing

Swan skipper Thorben Reinhardt comes around for a talk. Thorben, professional skipper of many year's standing, tells the story in an illustrated talk of the restoration and build of Tavira, a real-life marine Cinderella. Thorben found Tavira when she was a rusty 70' steel hull, and with bucketfulls of love and attention, fitted her out as a beautiful gaff rigged schooner, equipped for sailing and dive trips.