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    pinball1970 reacted to Jonathan Scott's post in the thread Random Photos with Like Like.
    In my first job with IBM, as a vacation student in 1973, I had some free time and I worked out how to use overpunching on the IBM 029...
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    My dad used to have racing green Jaguar, actually. I think it was a Jaguar XJ (possibly X300). I remember it was the most comfortable...
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    pinball1970 replied to the thread Random Photos.
    Racing green. He was actually driving off slowly as I took this, it sounded nowhere near as pretty as it looked! Would have been...
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    pinball1970 replied to the thread Random Photos.
    Some classics! Here are a few more.
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    pinball1970 reacted to sbrothy's post in the thread Random Photos with Like Like.
    So beautiful: That's kinda where it all started. You heard the story of how the magnetic stripe on cards where created yeah? An IBM...
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    pinball1970 reacted to sbrothy's post in the thread Random Photos with Like Like.
    I remember my stepdad giving me a Texas-Instruments "brick" which could be "programmed" to play various games. That must have been...
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    pinball1970 reacted to DennisN's post in the thread Random Photos with Wow Wow.
    The post by @jtbell with old hardware, including an old Hewlett-Packard calculator, prompted me to pull out these two old devices I have...
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    pinball1970 reacted to DennisN's post in the thread Random Photos with Love Love.
    A couple of spring shots from April: Springtime in the park. Common spikerush in a pond. A lovely looking tulip, Tulipa...
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    pinball1970 reacted to Borg's post in the thread Random Photos with Wow Wow.
    The Vessel at the end of the High Line.
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    pinball1970 reacted to jtbell's post in the thread Random Photos with Like Like.
    Here's the art gallery at the Mimms Museum: "Cybernetic Lobster Telephone"
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    pinball1970 reacted to sbrothy's post in the thread Random Photos with Like Like.
    My first computer: https://www.msx.org/wiki/images/6/6a/Hx22ch1.jpg My first computer. I still have a photo of the screen after the...
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    pinball1970 reacted to Borg's post in the thread Random Photos with Wow Wow.
    We're having an interesting trip. I don't have a picture but my wife spotted Kurt Russell and Goldy Hawn walking on the sidewalk in...
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    pinball1970 reacted to jtbell's post in the thread Random Photos with Love Love.
    Early electronic calculators and microcomputers: Apple I computers in "original condition" are apparently scarce enough that...
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    pinball1970 replied to the thread Some Trap Drumming I Like.
    More from traps.. 2.21 How many unique techniques here? Always linked together in a different way, he never repeated himself.