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<div>I don't remember what happened to mine. I know I had the cables that allowed me to store programs on a regular cassette player. I wrote some very rudimentary course plotting programs in basic, that included the ability to add waypoints. </div>
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On Apr 16, 2017, at 07:12, Dave <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" removedlink__6b41c7d5-fb7c-420e-b207-c5d90f79d75f__href="mailto:dave1massey@cs.com">dave1massey@cs.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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To: Philip Ethier <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" removedlink__6b41c7d5-fb7c-420e-b207-c5d90f79d75f__href="mailto:pethier7@gmail.com">pethier7@gmail.com</a>><br>
Cc: Dave <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" removedlink__6b41c7d5-fb7c-420e-b207-c5d90f79d75f__href="mailto:dave1massey@cs.com">dave1massey@cs.com</a>>; Triumphs <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" removedlink__6b41c7d5-fb7c-420e-b207-c5d90f79d75f__href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a>><br>
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<div>I had a Sinclair</div>
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On Apr 15, 2017, at 19:56, Philip Ethier <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pethier7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="black"><font size="3">I wasn't a subscriber at the start but I remember, back in the mid 90's, dragging my old AT laptop, mouse external dial-up modem into the hotel room, looked up the local access
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