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sjvn

It was a long, long — deep breath — long time ago.

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etchedpixels@mastodon.social

The Penguin of Evil

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Edited 4 days ago

@sjvn Ah yes.. have an actual Gandalf 8)

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pavel

Pavel Machek

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@etchedpixels @sjvn Nice toy, what is that? Some kind of serial terminal?
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etchedpixels@mastodon.social

The Penguin of Evil

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@pavel @sjvn Pretty much. Most of them also had modem type stuff integrated so it was a box you could stick somewhere and send 2 byte codes or similar to a remote station and get replies. Hence the sticker of codes on this one.

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passwordsarehard4@mastodon.social

Passwordsarehard4

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@sjvn ahh, back when the spirit of man was tested with the ears of a rabbit.

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redlinejohn@mastodon.social

Redline

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@sjvn I remember them. Seems I always used a Butter knife for a screwdriver when landing the cables onto the tv.

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crazyeddie@mastodon.social

derptron

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@sjvn

Did someone say they had Pong?

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aho@mastodon.social

Aho

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@sjvn a long time ago...

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antdude@mastodon.social

🐜

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@sjvn So was I with my Atari 2600 and Apple //c.

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