The First Computer, the First Computer and the First Machine the Handwriting Analysis

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Artpontoray recalls how he was scammed out of two weeks allowance by a machine that did handwriting analysis. He became obsessed with going back the i b m and seeing if that's what they had seen. Now, having recently seen the assorting machines, i's not a computer. Couldn't do anything.

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