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Old 26-10-2009, 10:42 PM
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Originally Posted by sheeny View Post
I still have my original Microbee computer packed away in the shed. It started life as a 32k tape drive system, but after I finished uni I upgraded it to "chook-in-a-book" status. Sometime after that IBM came out with the PC...
Hold on to that, it's an important part of Australia's history.

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At Kodak we had the mechanical Marchant caculators. They divided by subtracting.
Believe it or not... they still do
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