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[–] 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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    [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Daaaaang, that’s so many different messages, it’s more than 29 messages!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    That's more than there are letters! Crazy what modern tech can do!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Do you think that if Pheidippides had to run his marathon all the way to Sparta, there would be enough message space on one of these calculators to convince the Spartans not to let the big wooden horse in, after he died?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Wow, a smart-'phone' in 1979... although I guess you could just have used a piece of paper

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Broker is code for something else, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    I had something like this in the early eighties. It was cool and all until it died and took all my data with it. Lesson learned.

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