Notices by Electropict (electropict@mastodon.scot)

@CloudyMrs

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Looks like the first is a choice you *can* make reliably.  The second is something you might manage if you were sufficiently good at manipulating people but it would be a long shot.  The third is a matter of chance no matter how elaborate your schemes, so why bother?

@sdarlington @cstross @keyboards

It also had the advantage of a cheap expansion port which allowed third parties to produce add-on packs for mice, extra RAM and graphics capabilities, coprocessors, hard drive connectors and I don’t know what else.  Well before these things were affordable on IBM clones.  And it was easy to hack physically, hence mine had a DD 3·5″ drive within a year.

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@cstross @sdarlington @keyboards

And multiple programming languages were available.  You could draw and print the Mandelbrot set on them, if you had half a day or so spare.

They were great, for the time.  As long as no-one wanted to use a TV or radio nearby at the same time.  Shielded they were not, and the mice cables packed a punch across the spectrum.  Which is how I became a creature of the night. 😉