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Back In The Day Before Broadband

by RachelSwirl July 27, 2019
Back In The Day Before Broadband

Being a child of the eighties I grew up without the luxuries of laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Computers back when I was little were hefty machines which required almost an entire desk to support their sheer size and weight, there was nothing ‘portable’ about a PC back then… I was around eight years old when we first got a computer – an Atari ST 520 which was hooked up to a small-ish Osaki television. The Atari was classed as a games console, though it was no use saving your game progress as although the Atari read floppy disks, it forgot …

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