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[Arran]

Cassette tapes used to be used for games on 8 bit computers.

It must be a strange feeling having to connect your computer to your stereo then waiting between 5 and 10 minutes for the game to load before you could play it, for anybody used to instantly loading games on a console or mobile...

[Arran]

I asked a friend about the sentence making software but he didn't know what it was called. He said it generated sentences like My dad's new car jumped down the toilet or The hairy purple kettle started world war 3 with the gumpy old remote control.

He then mentioned how his teacher removed...

[Arran]

There was some software for the BBC computer back in the 1980s that enabled the user to create sentences by choosing whether a word is a noun / verb / adjective but you couldn't choose the word itself. The software then (randomly?) picked words out of a database. The resulting sentences were often very...