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-  - author: Terry Shingara (Harrisburg, PA, USA)
-    date: Thursday 26th March 2020
-    text: Does anyone know where I can get the pin headers to plug into the superboard II
-  - author: Myk Dormer (United Kingdom)
-    date: Monday 25th June 2018
-    text: |-
-      Also a Superboard II owner, a machine I fondly remember.\
-      After a couple of years the masked roms developed a thermal fault (only worked when cold) but the documentation was so good that (even as a teenager) I was able to clone the whole machine onto a home made card-frame of veroboards (with the errant ROMs copied onto an eprom).\
-      That machine probably taught me more than the engineering degree I later took :)
-  - author: Russ
-    date: Sunday 20th May 2018
-    text: I still have mine, I got it when I was in college but I don''t remember what year, maybe 77 or 1978?
-  - author: jeff (Australia)
-    date: Wednesday 17th May 2017
-    text: I have my original Superboard II on the wall in the shed. It no longer works due to Mr Rat releaving him self on the pcb. I had the hand soldered 64x40 character, 512x320 pixel graphics option. i have the work notes to go the mod somewhere. i will have a mint condition C1P and Orange ''green screen'' CRT $-)
-  - author: Andy B (Australia)
-    date: Wednesday 12th April 2017
-    text: My first computer. Learned to code in BASIC and 6502 machine code. Wrote a ''snake'' type game and high-speed machine-code line drawing routines so that I could animate a rotating cube in real time. I expanded the memory to 12K by piggy-backing 2114 chips on top of the ones on the board and wiring up the chip $ pin to the address decoder chip. Good Times. Best story though is the night I brought it home from the store. It had been wrapped in tin foil - protection from static shock - so I though I''d just leave it sitting on the foil when I switched it on. Not a great idea. Fortunately, just blew the on-board fuse so I was back up and running in a few minutes.
-  - author: Ben Grimer
-    date: Thursday 9th March 2017
-    text: I used to play games on this with my brother and write rudimentary basic programs. I played hectic and new York taxi (and became one of the elite !).
-  - author: Peter Ledger (Oldham England)
-    date: Wednesday 23rd January 2013
-    text: I have just dragged my superboard II out of storage and intend getting it up and running again. I spent many happy hours programming ms basic with this dinosaur and hope to do so again
-  - author: Richard Scales (England)
-    date: Tuesday 6th November 2012
-    text: I got one of these in 1979 and spent many many hours doing all kinds of things with it, programming basic and 6502 assembler as well as building memory boards and a disk controller. It has not been switched on for decades but it is still kept safe for a really rainy day!
-  - author: Paul (Canada)
-    date: Monday 3rd January 2011
-    text: I bought a Supper Board II in 1979 and built a power supply and TV interface for it. I programmed it in Basic and Assembly Language for several years..learned a lot from that Computer. I also used a Compac 386 for a few years traveling with it.
-  - author: Andy Pagin (London UK)
-    date: Monday 22nd March 2010
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-      I wrote my first ever program on one of these in about 1982.
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-      print "Hello World"
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-      Been a pro-developer ever since.
-  - author: Andy (England)
-    date: Wednesday 6th December 2006
-    text: I worked on these in the early 80s. I threw mine out about 10 years ago and now regret it. Does anyone have one they'd like to give me? I'm suffering from severe nostalgia.
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