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As many may remember, early computers were fairly useless by themselves. Personal computers such as the C64, Amiga, Atari and Spectrum did not have any internal storage, some did not even have a drive to accept a disk or tape and required peripherals to load data. As such people frequently found themselves with multiple boxes …

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Who remembers acoustic tape computer storage? A few weeks ago I wrote about the influence Sir Clive Sinclair had on my tech career: As part of that article I spoke about my first computer, a ZX81 kit. Now for the younger readers we did have floppy disks back then, floppy disks that bent, as opposed …

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