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Submitted by Adam Gaffin on Sat, 05/10/2008 - 6:13am.

There was life-saving, home-protecting, husband-replacing Newton, running on an XT-equivalent PC with a massive 20-Megabyte hard drive and a convenient 729k floppy disk:

From 1989. Via Ed Symkus.

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