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24-02-2016, 10:20
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNFa2rpGZsn-DQCUiZATrzI2ISw9QQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=2oPNVujvB4ST1Abw4IuICQ&url=http://www.historyextra.com/article/history-1980s-home-computer-boom-brave-new-world"><img src="//t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQJWoaNpM5jgNFHK5hmkC3FHewXGniuz oeNhzrI7xToWtbBjPIaANL4VHSFeTcnAuPlV2UqIDTm" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80"><br><font size="-2">BBC History Magazine (blog)</font></a></font></td><td valign="top" class="j"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNFa2rpGZsn-DQCUiZATrzI2ISw9QQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=2oPNVujvB4ST1Abw4IuICQ&url=http://www.historyextra.com/article/history-1980s-home-computer-boom-brave-new-world"><b>A brave new world: the 1980s home computer boom</b></a><br><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">BBC History Magazine (blog)</font></b></font><br><font size="-1">These fantastic machines, like the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Acorn Electron and <b>Commodore 64</b>, promised to make computing user-friendly for the first time. They were expected to reveal the wonders of information technology to the masses, and bring about a&nbsp;...</font><br><font size="-1" class="p"></font><br><font class="p" size="-1"><a class="p" href="http://news.google.ie/news/more?ncl=ddbSM4qfCQggcHM&authuser=0&ned=en_ie"><nobr><b></b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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