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bmonkey325 5 days ago | parent

Hello. Also from Canada!

Retro machine of choice. Atari 800. First computer that was mine. Want revive machine to be real….

Day job is working on COBOL and Fortran centric LLM to keep the lights on after I’m gone.

ddingus 5 days ago
My first was also an Atari. Was a 400, and the first thing I did was get it a real keyboard.
Click, clickety, click, click...
The SIO system was really nice for the time.
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- bmonkey325 5 days ago
  I did good business doing b-key 400 upgrades in Toronto back in the day. Weird thst people would let a 12 year old (me) take apart a computer they were afraid to do themselves.
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  - ddingus 5 days ago
    Yeah, the guy I got mine from said the same thing back in the day. Must have been a nice side gig at the time.
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