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As a fellow Brit, I agree the salary sounds low, but if you don't have family ties, want a change from the drizzly south-east to the sunny heart of hacker culture, it sounds unbeatable. Good luck!
They missed the only one I know in the UK - "Inspector Sands" I'm sure used to be associated with bomb / terror threats but wikipedia says it's just a general euphemism for something in a train/tube station that needs immediate attention from staff.
Put me down for a pre-order :) If you can publish something half as interesting as the programming-heavy "Chasing the Beam" (a history of the creative programming techniques and people that stretched the Atari 2600's commercial lifespan well through the 1980s), you'll hook a lot of geeks.
I think you might need some focus though, are you only thinking about video game systems and saving old games from stagnating on dead hardware, or Apple's two processor switches and how they dragged their users with them, or why cranky mainframes run Linux? etc.