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echo: cbm
to: ANDREAS KOHLBACH
from: IAN MCCALL
date: 2017-05-17 22:45:00
subject: Re: Patch now!

On 2017-05-17 21:37:45 +0000, Andreas Kohlbach  said:

> On Wed, 17 May 2017 20:55:45 +0100, Ian McCall wrote:
>>
>> Upgrade your kernals now - no C64 is safe!
>>
>> 
>
> Yeah, everybody is upgrading. After the ransom ware disaster at the NHS they
> also do
>
<http://newsthump.com/2017/05/15/government-pledge-to-upgrade-nhs-zx-spectrums-
to-commodore-64s/>.

"The
>
Government will fund the deal partly by selling the ZX Spectrums on
eBay and partly through a jumble sale in Ealing"

What a co-incidence. That's how I funded -my- C64.


(well, alright - that's how my parents funded my C64, and it wasn't
Ealing. It -was- selling a Spectrum and also giving things to the
jumble sale though. For a joke decades in the making though? Close
enough).


Cheers,
Ian

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