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scubadude · 9h ago

My (government-funded) primary school got a room full of these, plus a couple of disk drives, printers and whatever networking joined them together. It must have cost a fortune. Of the handful of students I have since run into, 2 worked in IT for universities and one in defence. Plus whatever digital literacy was instilled in the people who went into areas outside IT. Pretty smart investment in building a future workforce.

jacobgorm · 13h ago

When I bought my first used C64 I got a Vic20 with it for free. After a couple of years I managed to kill the C64 doing some stupid FAFO electronics experiments, and was left with only the Vic20 for my hobby programming for a few months. I still have nightmares about that machine and it’s horrible 22 column display.

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