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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    And there's a copy of, I think, the third issue on the shelf over there - the one reviewing the original Tandy computer
    Three of us took it in turns one morning to key in a program from a magazine for the school TRS-80.

    I was doing the last bit and moved the keyboard a bit nearer ... fzzzzt click.

    The keyboard was connected by a ribbon cable that just fell out when you moved the keyboard and made the machine reset.
    Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.

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      Between that and the wobbly RAM pack on the ZX80, one could get right royally annoyed.
      Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.

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        Nick Jr have got Rainbow on at the moment.
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          Personally, I liked the rack-mounted RML 380Z.

          It was the woofer's wotsits.
          Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.

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            That took me back a bit.
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              Evening all
              That boy go raaaaaaa
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                Now I'm watching Pleasantville.
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                  I've seen it before, and quite enjoyed it.
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                    Waiting for MrsF to come back from the shop with some chocolate.
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                      Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
                      This is the Night Mail "Daddy, what's Night Mail?" crossing the border,Bringing the cheque "Daddy, what's a cheque?" and the postal order "Daddy, what's postal order?",
                      Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
                      The shop at the corner "Daddy, why's a shop at the corner?"and the girl next door.
                      And then some toe-rag at the delivery office thieves it anyway.

                      Or chucks the sack in the canal.

                      Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.

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