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Computing History with Atari and Commodore's Leonard Tramiel

Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

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How to Get a Sign to a Task Like That

You worked on PETSCHI, the PET standard code of information exchange. How did you get a sign to task like that? Is it a summer? And someone says, hey, we need a character model and we need some graphics inside of the characters. So I was the low man on the totem pole with the fewest technical chops. But he said, okay, we have 256 elements that can go into each thing on the screen. We'll use one bit to reverse every dot. That leaves you with 128. There's a bunch for letters and numbers and punctuation. Fill the rest with useful things. And by the way, I want to play Blackjack so we need

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