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inetknght ◴[] No.45146566[source]
My dad worked at Motorola at the time. He told a story where Motorola security walked Steve Jobs off of the premesis. Bad times.

Anyway, my dad worked on the machines that built/tested the motherboard for motorola's clones. He'd bring home some of the broken ones that were supposed to be dumped, and he'd fix them up. I had a top-notch StarMax running some ad-hoc fixes and upgrades. Pretty sweet machine until I finally got a job and bought a Windows machine. It still works today, except that the IDE drive. I could buy a new IDE drive (if I could even find one) but the total horsepower of the machine is less than even a raspberry pi these days, and not worth the power consumption.

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FirmwareBurner ◴[] No.45148714[source]
>Motorola security walked Steve Jobs off of the premesis

Do you know why? Sounds like a story everyone would be interested to hear.

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