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To: OCC

“Radio Shack TRS-80 sucks!, Long live Commodore!”

Yea, we didn’t call them “Trash 80’s” for nothing.

Wasn’t it the Commode-door 64 that you could write about 5 lines of code to increase the scan level on the monitor way beyond its critical limit, resulting in the release of its magic smoke minutes after walking away from it?

Personally, I am surfing the inter-webs on my Atari 800. What can you not do with 48k of memory and a tape drive? /s


70 posted on 07/24/2010 6:21:31 PM PDT by Clay Moore (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Clay Moore
resulting in the release of its magic smoke

A monitor is not "burned in" until you get all the smoke out of it!

73 posted on 07/24/2010 6:24:44 PM PDT by Eaker (Pablo is very wily)
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