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02-11-2016, 11:52
<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=AFQjCNHDdu66J__NThicT7unoWwflibIvg&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=fNMZWJiVINOaWtzmjvAB&url=http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2016/11/ghosts-machine"><img src="//t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRipafx1hgzRZ07GjAERQdtnG2ze1lrP no68_6DZ_VKrFSO4Y6MlTagQsOUTsPu8tf1_xolXXIX" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80"><br><font size="-2">The Economist (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=AFQjCNHDdu66J__NThicT7unoWwflibIvg&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=fNMZWJiVINOaWtzmjvAB&url=http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2016/11/ghosts-machine"><b>Ghosts in the machine “Halt and Catch Fire” makes the world of 1980s computing compulsive viewing</b></a><br><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">The Economist (blog)</font></b></font><br><font size="-1">NO matter how you film it, the beige, functional <b>Commodore 64</b> computer will always seem less glamorous than Knoll office furniture and the swinging 60s. Compared with “Mad Men” or “Masters of Sex”, a 1980s tech start-up seems lacklustre material for 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=detlFJGHjInJ87M&authuser=0&ned=en_ie"><nobr><b></b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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