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Robert Server

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Jun 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM6/30/96
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In article <4r12tu$u...@rs10.tcs.tulane.edu>, harr...@cs.tulane.edu (scott) wrote:
>In article <4qufjd$f...@news.pacifier.com>, dt...@pacifier.com wrote:
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>>> BTW we can thank the C64 for starting
>>>the home pc market. In its day it was revolutionary!
>>
>>Three channel music (courtesy of SAM) and 16 colors on the screen at ONCE!
^^^
Hey! That was SID! (get it right!) ;) ;) ;)

>>Wow. It out did any PC on the home computer market. IBMs only had 8
>>colors and a tweeky little speaker that only did square waves.
>
>And don't get forget all those really funky symbols under the letters on
>the keyboard (didn't each key have a letter and 2 symbols under it?)

Rob
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Nick Totoro

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Jul 1, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/1/96
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You've all still got it all wrong... the Timex Sinclair 1000 (still
got one sitting at home from my childhood, actually) and Coleco Adam
were the hot things to have... depending on one's definition of "hot" of
course 8 )
Nick
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