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The investigation that [Old VCR] goes into on this project to get this obsolete yet unique piece of hardware running and programmed to do other tasks is impressive, and worth taking a look at especially because spreadsheets like this aren’t Turing-complete, leading to a few interesting phenomenon that most of us wouldn’t come across in the ça�
I'm Mark Baxman, the guy behind retrotechlab.com. I've worked in electronics for the past 25 years and have owned nearly every home computer and games cosole at some point, and I'm now even more obsessed with them. If you go back far enough you’re going to find that even mundane stuff is expensive and increasingly hard to get. A CRT that support