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@arstechnica@c.im · Jan 05, 2026

Stewart Cheifet, PBS host who chronicled the PC revolution, dies at 87 https://arstechni.ca/rakC #ComputerChronicles #Vintagecomputing #computerhistory #InternetArchive #machinelearning #retrocomputing #StewartCheifet #GaryKildall #Obituaries #retrotech #Tech #PBS #AI

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Found elsenet. And now, with my memories of home taping off the radio using a cassette recorder and a microphone, I feel *ancient*:

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@cstross@wandering.shop One of my first programming exercises was to print/plot audio cassette case inlays using a SHARP PC-1500 programmable calculator and its four-colour ballpoint ink plotter. http

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@mschomm@bonn.social Oooh! My first useful computer (I don't count the ZX-81 it replaced) was a Casio FX-702p, basically similar to your Sharp but with an alphabetic (rather than QWERTY) keyboard. Cou

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