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kragen ◴[] No.43950263[source]
> So my TV Terminal, for accessing the ARPAnet, was uppercase only.

I never realized that the most influential personal computer was specifically designed to access what would later become the internet. That's astounding.

(The first internetworking experiments that I can find records of were done as part of the ARPANet project, and some of the protocols and even many of the port numbers we use today in TCP/IP are from ARPANet.)

I also had no idea that Woz had built his own CPU out of discrete logic in 01970. I still haven't done that myself 55 years later!

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bregma ◴[] No.43952967[source]
01970 is not a valid octal number. Perhaps you meant 0x7B2?
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1. quinndexter ◴[] No.43969494[source]
It's a Long Now thing.