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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:50:18 GMT
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- From: Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
- Subject: Re: Gleanings (73
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- On Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:06:29 EST, "Brad Baxter" <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu> wrote:
- > I once read an article about how a Sinclair computer user managed
- > to get his little box to print. He put a light sensor in a clear suction
- > cup and stuck it to the lower right corner of the TV screen. He then
- > turned on and off the pixel under the sensor, causing the sensor to
- > transmit the proper codes to the printer. I found this story wonderfully
- > entertaining.
-
- When we built the first Acorn RISC machine, we hacked up an interface
- to it to download stuff from a zx81 by squirting it a bit at a time
- down the keyboard port. (This was the only device that worked in the
- very first machine) [*Don't* ask me why we were downloading stuff from
- a zx81...]
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