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Remembering Ed Roberts, The Home Computer Pioneer You Should Have Heard Of But Probably Haven’t
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We’re pretty familiar with such names as Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Jack Tramiel, Nolan Bushnell, and the other movers and shakers of the 1970s home computer world. But there’s one pers…

Remembering Ed Roberts, The Home Computer Pioneer You Should Have Heard Of But Probably Haven’t
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  • "You have much pain... share it with me."

  • Speaking of transporters
  • "I teleported home one night, With Ron and Sid and Meg. Ron stole Meggie's heart away, And I got Sidney's leg." - The Teleportation Blues

  • I'm with them
  • "You encounter a grandma. Roll for gelt."

  • I'm with them
  • Tonight we dice in hell.

  • Whoever is across from someone on the yearbook page kisses them when the book closes.
  • Nice! I'm going to have a look at my old HS yearbook and see who's opposite page...

    "Future Farmers of America"

  • The cockpit? What is it?
  • "It's the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit, but that's not important right now."

  • FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time – Trailer Showing Changes from Last Games
  • I'm interested enough in this game to pick it up when it comes out, but I have to admit that I didn't finish the first one. I liked it well enough, but my interest in it just petered out over time, and at some point, I just never came back to it. I hope that "i" will be a little more compelling. Either that, or I hope my attention span has increased over the last ten years!

  • Get this out of my face!
  • Please no, I'm trying to fill every cubic inch of this world with Pestilent Mercury.

  • David's big break.
  • "What role did you get? How did you get it?"

  • Just the essentials
  • "Have a very safe day"

    BTW, if you missed out on the Half-Life anniversary giveaway, you can pick it up for 99 cents (US) until November 28th.

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    counting
  • "Please count to 10."

    "... um, I've run out of fingers."

  • Job experience
  • Hold my 401k, I'm goin' in!

  • Ransomware
  • "Replicator, give me a slice of mushroom pizza."

    "Hot or cold."

    "Hot."

    "Space-warping travel mushrooms or the ones that grow on old logs."

    "Uh, the log ones I guess."

    "Coward."

  • Also a bunch of masked ancient aliens to boot
  • "You want me to play a robot? But I want to show off my acting range!"

    "Don't worry, you'll also get to play two other robots and a couple of old guys!"

  • Half shark, half man! Fighting evil - that's the plan! 🎶
  • And -- inexplicably -- it has darkvision.

  • As you wiiiiiiiish.
  • "Aaass yoooou--" *squish*

  • An unbiased comparison of linux distributions' setup
  • cries in broadcom wireless card not supported

  • How I act off of Lemmy
  • *dabs corners of mouth with a cloth napkin*

    *erupt like Vesuvius*

  • Just let them have their fun
  • barbarians

    blahbarians

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