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Chapter 5: The Caveman and the Pirate Ship

“The cavemen didn’t need paintbrushes.” Tommy Barton, 1984

Life in the Zoo at Software Projects in 1984: a menagerie of donated computers, a Tatung Einstein boot-disk disaster, and learning on the job while trying not to be found out.

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