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(URL) a scan archive of one of the most amazing magazines ever-the Transactor. While other computer magazines of the 80's focused on boring BASIC games you could key in, the Transactor (named after the Commodore PET) was a hardcore hacking journal, (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Oh My Goodness!! That brings back soooo many memories. There was an article in a much later Transactor which interfaces the same Radio Shack arm with the 64. The 64 had a much easier hardware interface 'cause the 'user port' was much akin to (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yeah, when I saw it, I was floored. I used to have a stack of Transactors that the school library gave me, because no one was interested in them. Read every paragraph, sentence and word of them. Problem was, I never really understood the nitty (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes: <snip> 2 words: Jim Butterfield! Oooooohhhhhhh.. TPUG!! Double Ooooooooohhhhhhh!!!! V=53248 sys 32768 Oh the 64 memories come flooding back. Saving up for the 64 Reference Manual! Stop it! Stop it! (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Oh man, yeah. Jim Butterfield rocked. (...) TPUG: The Scariest Set of People You'll Ever Meet, and We Don't Mean rtlToronto Members. (...) You see, that's the kind of obscure knowledge you don't need for modern PCs: CALL -151 (Apple II ROM (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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<snip> (...) camera, actually we did not cut them in half we took the tiny metal plate off the top, to expose the actaul IC, and put a lens in front of it, got 1 or 2K resolution, with a split in the middle since the chips were made in two halves. (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I used to LOVE those Osborne books! In grade 8 we built the robot described in one of them, but had it run off a C-64 rather than a VIC 20 or Spectrum or whatever it was that was described in the book. We got it to work, though someone's older (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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