Can anyone help identify this 80s computer show?

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Can anyone help identify this 80s computer show?

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This may be impossible but I recently unearthed a small piece of paper on which is printed an early digital photo taken of me at a London computer show sometime in the early 80s:

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Not very helpful possibly but I remember it being a typically busy show, possibly at Earl's Court/Olympia or maybe Hammersmith Novotel conference centre? One stand had a camera with a monitor and dot matrix printer attached, and they took your photo and gave you a printout of the capture. The printout is black & white but I can't remember if the camera/monitor was also monochrome or colour.

I'm curious to know how old I was at the time so just trying to see if it's possible to pin this down, if not to a particular show then a specific year. I had a VIC 20 first in around 1982 followed by a Commodore 64 and went to a few shows in those years.

Any help appreciated :)
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Re: Can anyone help identify this 80s computer show?

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Commodore did several World of Commodore shows at the Novotel, circa 83-87?
There was a C64 digitiser/camera called ComputerEyes from America so that would possibly have been on show in 86 or 87?

Failing that there the PCW Shows at Earl’s Court from roughly 84-91 IIRC
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Nice one, thanks! Yes it would more likely have been 83 than later. Latest 84 I would imagine, It was most likely a Commodore show so that was likely it.
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