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  1. 1st February 2007, 10:35 PM #1816
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    The musician's labourer???
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    That a bit cruel Noel, he speaks very highly of you!
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    I am sure my mother still has a bottle of ENO in the cupboard. I wonder how he feels about this.

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    Famous?
    Doesn't that imply that everybody would know of him?
    I don't remember the name at all.
    Course, that could be a function of age too.

    I'll ask a question.

    About 30/35 years ago when computers were just coming in Dick Smith sold a magical brand of computer.
    For 23 points. What was the name of the computer, what was the standard memory for that computer, what was it's processor and how much did it cost? Oh, and how big was it's hard drive?
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    Dick Smith Wizzard
    1kb of RAM
    8-bit Rockwell 6502A CPU
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    Sorry silent, that is not the magical one that I am thinking of.

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    Come on, you can't get much more magical than a Wizzard!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by silentC View Post
    Come on, you can't get much more magical than a Wizzard!!
    Not much more magical no, but think synonyms.
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    Has me stumped. The only other computers I can think of from that era were the Tandy TRS-80 and the Commodore C64 and Vic-20. I had a C64. We learnt BASIC at school on a TRS-80
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    Was it the System 80, 16k Ram, Z80 for around $800? With the Cassette Hard Drive.
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    Nope, not the system 80, that was a sort of do-it-yourself computer.
    This was a proper full blown computer SYNONYMOUS with a wizard.
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    Some synonyms of wizard are:

    1. (2) ace, adept, sensation, maven, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz -- (someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field)
    2. magician, wizard, necromancer -- (one who practices magic or sorcery)
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    Quote Originally Posted by silentC View Post
    Has me stumped. The only other computers I can think of from that era were the Tandy TRS-80 and the Commodore C64 and Vic-20. I had a C64. We learnt BASIC at school on a TRS-80
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    Well it's got to be the Sorcerer

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exidy_Sorcerer
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grunt View Post
    Well it's got to be the Sorcerer

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exidy_Sorcerer
    Well there you go. Never even heard of it.
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