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Apr 16

History making history: the first tweet ever posted from a Commodore VIC-20. The VIC-20 was my very first computer as a kid, and I’ve still got it around here somewhere. The Personal Computer Museum custom wrote the software to make this possible. The code must be pretty tight… the VIC-20 only had 3583 bytes of available RAM!

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