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Canadians, hear a living piece of computer history

Postby shooraijin » Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:11 pm

http://www.cs.yorku.ca/museum/events/events.htm

Jim Butterfield, one of the legends of the Commodore computer world and a respected figure in computing history, will be lecturing at York University. Wish I could go, but I wouldn't say no to a friendly associate here taping it. :)
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:18 am

too bad im like... 15... and like... in maryland

ever been to retrojunk.com? they had a commodore 64 commercial there, saying it was like the best thing to invest in XD
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Postby Technomancer » Fri Mar 04, 2005 6:42 am

Cool, it's a pity that it's such a pain to get to York
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