No, but I had a friend who worked at the Atari company. Things were actually made in the country of origin back then. His dad was one of the first silicon boule engineers. Not very exciting times.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee,
Fri 29 Aug 2014, 0:23,
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I was being somewhat facetious.During the home computer boom of the early '80s, there were many manufacturers in both the UK (e.g. Sinclair, Acorn, Dragon, Oric, Amstrad) and the US (e.g. Apple, Commodore, Atari, Radio Shack, TI), but not many of the ones made over here were popular or even released over there, although most from there were available here.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,,
Fri 29 Aug 2014, 1:00,
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Like tv shows. Fucking usa. I'm just grateful some station ran The Young Ones. I still can't believe I was right in the middle of all of that stuff. I even know someone who had 10% of Apple, but whose attorney ran off with the money. Nerd history.
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Fri 29 Aug 2014, 2:26,
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