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  string(226) "See some Binary Dinosaurs at the Digital Archaeology exhibition in Shoreditch, London from the 10th November!

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  [1]=>
  string(235) "Given my DEC background I think this is superb - a VAXcluster built using SimH on a pair of Raspberry Pi boards: "
  [2]=>
  string(184) "A new magazine for ZX81 owners, some good stuff in here!

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  [3]=>
  string(324) "Happy birthday Apple Lisa (tomorrow). I wanted one of these when they were released in 1983 and featured on the launch issue of Personal Computer News. Happily my 2/10 is still working nicely.

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  [4]=>
  string(214) "Excellent writeup on the history of the ZX Microdrive by El Reg here: "
  [5]=>
  string(204) "Today El Reg focuses on the history of the Camputers Lynx: : /2013/03/20/feature_the_story_of_the_camputers_lynx/"
  [6]=>
  string(199) "How the Sord M5 attempted to break into the UK and failed: "
  [7]=>
  string(227) "Sad news, Doug Engelbart who gave us the computer mouse amongst other things has died in his sleep at 88. RIP.

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  [8]=>
  string(283) "This is well worth looking at, the fabled 'Twiggy Mac' in use this week!

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  [9]=>
  string(235) "Shame. Father of the video game Ralph H Bayer has died age 92. A true hero, RIP sir.

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  [10]=>
  string(243) "Got a spare Zebra ZX81 kit lying around? Why not build it, but remember the PSU is likely to be 110V - watch out for the magic smoke!
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  [11]=>
  string(400) "Since October I've got my mojo back repairing some of the museum inhabitants that have bit-rotted in the 10-15 years since I got them. So far I've brought back 4 PETs - 4016, 4032, 8096 and my favourite 8096-SK. While I remember how to code in PHP again I've put some updates on the BDFB page at "
  [12]=>
  string(264) "A fully playable web-based version of my favourite ZX81 game is now online - 3D Monster Maze! Get chomped into little bits at 

"Anyone there?""
  [13]=>
  string(293) "Britain's first mass produced computer, the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC-1) is now on display at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.

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  [14]=>
  string(379) "A bloke called Eric has 'blown up' a humble CBM/MOS 6502 processor to show each one of its transistors and constituent parts in action so you can see how a single instruction is performed. Brilliant.
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  [15]=>
  string(253) "First Person tetris anyone? The 'camera' is fixed on the playing piece so be prepared to feel dizzy and/or sick :)



(via @codepo8 and @robmanuel on twitter)"
  [16]=>
  string(353) "Steve over at BMOW (Big Mess O'Wires) has, with the help of others in the retro community, recreated the hard-to-find 19-pin plug necessary for old Apple drives, NeXT drives, Atari peripherals etc....go see!
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  [17]=>
  string(276) "Well would you look at that. Developer John Brooks has released an update for ProDOS for the Apple ][ :D

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  [18]=>
  string(223) "Some good technical stuff from Brendan Alford here, he's the bloke who's diagnostics I use to test dead Speccies:

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  [19]=>
  string(268) "Here's a museum in Maryland USA I wouldn't mind a wander around, this is exactly what I'd like to do here if only I had the cash!

Bob Roswell's System Source Museum: "
  [20]=>
  string(173) "Fancy emulating a Tandy TRS80 Model 3? Now you can!

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