[Autosave is for Wimps]

[Autosave is for Wimps]

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My life story, told as a trail of rubbish PCs

My life story, told as a trail of rubbish PCs

They were so bloated, even defrag broke wind

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The world’s oldest microcomputer is younger than me.

That’s if I believe a public relations story that was doing the rounds last week, anyway. A house-clearance business called Just Clear had been doing what it does – emptying homes of unwanted junk and salvaging items that could be …

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