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Originally Posted by terminal pharmacy
the internet is a by product of computers and those of us who are older saw computers become available to every household early on. way back in the vic20, c64, bbc era of computing. i was 6 when i got my first computer, that was at a time when to play a game you had to go and buy code books and type all the code into the machine, then save it on magnetic tape so you could play it again at another time. it was a time before the gui existed and everything had to be done in code. you make it sound like older people don't understand the technology when infact i'm sure those on this board are proably far more aware of the technology and it's consequences in a deeper way than the younger ones on here.
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Oh, the memories.

the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo) 2
tape recorder for a BASIC programming/machine language data drive...RS model below

Behold, the start-up screen.
