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wozname

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    Comment #33604540

    My Dad runs a website for his Meccano hobby, and as far as I know their webring is still active: http://nzfmm.co.nz/ https://meccano.link/ I was definitely surprised to see an acti…

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    Comment #7293012

    Obligatory zx81 version, video: http://www.frequency.com/video/just-released-for-zx81-is-qua... The official homepage: http://www.bobs-stuff.co.uk/quack.html This C64 version is pr…

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    Comment #6344260

    That's cool, for those interested, here's the link to the original ascii Star Wars at Simon's website: http://asciimation.co.nz

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    Comment #5147877

    I will not be getting a surface. I took a borrowed one home to show my wife, she hated it. She wanted the interface switched around since she's left handed, charms on the left and …

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    Comment #4087650

    He is one of the Hackers in Steven Levy's Book pubished in 1984: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer...

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    Comment #3892965

    Very commonly used in New Zealand, its used on TV with no problems, heres the iconic Toyota ad using the word bugger to good effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKY_OysWu3k

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    Comment #2670338

    I'd be scared of it automatically downloading inappropriate or even worse illegal stuff from the search results. Try explaining to the boss you did not visit that nsfw site but it …

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    Comment #2145413

    Gutted, I thought it was open source. That would have been cool but I'm still impressed they managed to ship anything at all.

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    Comment #2145407

    Yeah, I don't think you'd be targeting your latest masterpiece at this. Probably it will receive mostly ports of existing software.

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    Pandora: Community driven linux based hardware project, actually shipping units.

    I just discovered this system today, looks really cool.

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    Comment #1177308

    Cheers, thanks for the clarification.

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    Comment #1176952

    Fair enough :)

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    Comment #1176752

    That makes sense, However there must be some killer feature that makes them superior to the x64 architecture. Could it be memory architecture? Power efficiency? How would you expla…

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    Who actually uses Itanium based computers?

    I always see the Itanium version for any programmer tool I download from microsoft. However it seems that Microsoft only provides Windows Server 2008 for it, which is not cheap. Wh…

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