Odd PET 8032 mainboard

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Sep 19 22:44:46 CDT 2004


ben franchuk <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>:

> Dave Dunfield wrote:
> 
> > Obviously that should read "Copyright 1980" (Otherwise I would
> > have a REALLY vintage computer).
> 
> Something like
>   COPYWRIGHT MLXXX

I don't think they had copyright in those days. All software
was copied manually by teams of dedicated monks using small
hand-held magnets, and they were glad of all the help they
could get.

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