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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I had something like this in the early eighties. It was cool and all until it died and took all my data with it. Lesson learned.

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 28 points 23 hours ago
[-] PrimeErective@startrek.website 9 points 22 hours ago

Believe whatever you want to believe

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 4 points 22 hours ago

Finally I have permission

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago
[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago
[-] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

Broker is code for something else, right?

[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

Daaaaang, that’s so many different messages, it’s more than 29 messages!

[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

space age tech

[-] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

That's more than there are letters! Crazy what modern tech can do!

[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Do you think that if Pheidippides had to run his marathon all the way to Sparta, there would be enough message space on one of these calculators to convince the Spartans not to let the big wooden horse in, after he died?

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago

Wow, a smart-'phone' in 1979... although I guess you could just have used a piece of paper

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Or a File-o-fax, if you were a cool, modern technology minded person.

[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

smart paper you say... that's an idea for a startup

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

You could still just use a piece of paper

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 3 points 22 hours ago

"Blue pill", and 20 years before The Matrix came out.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

And before viagra

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