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Old 22nd May 2020, 9:59 pm   #43
Paul_RK
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Default Re: Early personal computers - what for?

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Originally Posted by Aub View Post
Thirty five years, not fifty
It's about 41 or 42 years since I had the occasional date with a Durham terminal of the Northumbrian Universities Multiple Access Computer and a pile of punched cards. I think the beast itself lived somewhere in Newcastle.

I'm another who couldn't see any attraction in a personal computer until much later on, the end of 2003, when after a friend finally persuaded me to acquire one I promptly signed up here and within a month had launched the Hacker Radio Group.

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