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It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

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It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

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It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

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It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

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It’s 1983, you’re 8, and the teacher wheels in the BBC Model B trolley. Nothing better! Granny’s Garden: Simple by today’s standards, yet it captivated UK school children as their first taste of microcomputers 🧙‍♀️😃. Play it on a real BBC Micro at the Museum of Computing #retrogaming #grannysgarden

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In the UK, 1980s home computers typically loaded software from audio cassettes, but did you know software sometimes came on records? These ‘flexi discs’ were given away on magazine covers. They were cheap to manufacture and more convenient to distribute than bulky cassettes. #record #computer

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ZX81 BASIC provided a ‘PRINT AT’ command for displaying characters at given coordinates. The ‘PLOT’ command would place a pixel (at a chunky 64x44 resolution). The PRINT’N’PLOTTER JOTTER was a special notepad that allowed screen layouts to be planned out on paper. Did you use one back in the day?

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