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Memories of a Software Rental Shop

Posted on May 11, 2019 by Blake Patterson

I remember the first video my family ever rented. It was a James Bond film, Never Say Never Again. We rented it (on Beta videocassette) from the video rental counter that popped up in our local five and dime, a … Continue reading →

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An Archive of Newsletters from My Users’ Groups Past

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Blake Patterson

A computer geek all my life, in my youth I was a member of several different local computer users’ groups in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. In 1983 I joined my first, becoming a member of the Peninsula ’99ers, … Continue reading →

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My Earliest Memories of Microcomputing — And How I Came About Them

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Blake Patterson

I was lately in a twitter back-and-forth with some of my vintage computing brethren when the topic of the earliest systems each of us owned came up. My first was a TI-99/4A gifted me (I coached the parents on the … Continue reading →

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