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Applestore equals Fenwicks

March 16th, 2010

Many years ago, in the height of the first British computer boom I can fondly remember riding the metro into haymarket and heading for Fenwicks' computer department (it was on a mezzanine level next the the bainbridges' flying saucer and boots. I think they have handbags there now. But back then it was geek heaven with dragons, orics and of course the zx81. We would gather and programme the tried honoured
10 print "hello"
20 goto 10

pretty much like the gothlings and punkins that gather less than a hundred feet away in old eldon square today we had a place to go

now the apple store has revived that shame they're punting Californian apples instead of cambridge acorns

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