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   - title: VECTOR-GRAPHIC List
     url: http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=VECTOR-GRAPHIC
     text: mailing list for Vector Graphic computers
-  comments:
-  - author: Samuel Lilly (USA)
-    date: Tuesday 6th October 2020
-    text: I have one of these machines. The keyboard need new pads. It has 64k but needs a cpm or basic boot disk. How do I make or get one?
-  - author: Jerri Kohl (NEK, Vermont, US)
-    date: Saturday 8th September 2018
-    text: I have read conflicting information about whether this model had any graphics modes (or even a redefinable character set). Can anyone clear this up? I''m sure Dennis Wingo could.
-  - author: jon (usa )
-    date: Monday 12th March 2018
-    text: i have one and all i get is a screen that says vector graphic screen version 4.0 i dont know how to make the floppy drive spin when i hit the b key i get boot floppy but nothing at all anyone know how to operate one of them
-  - author: Ken Williamson (Thailand)
-    date: Sunday 11th September 2016
-    text: I bought a Vector 3 with two floppy drives and a Spinwriter printer that was hard wired to the I/O board with a 1" diameter cable. If you moved the system, everything had to be carried together. I bought to do spreadsheets. Execuplan was a little buggy$ you had to do column and row operations in a certain order or you started over. But, the most fun I had was adding a 32K memory board in order to run an early medical billing software application. You had to cut a trace from the new board to the BUS then solder a jumper between the two boards, which yielded a total of 56K of memory, I think. Latter I became a CompuPro Dealer, which was an awesome machine.
-  - author: Barry Coopersmith (Florida)
-    date: Thursday 18th June 2015
-    text: I have a vector 3 computer with dual 400k floppy drives and cords. I also have software, Memorite word processor, Payroll, spread sheet and general ledger. If anyone is interested, give me a holler at above e-mail. .... Barry
-  - author: Barry Coopersmith (Florida)
-    date: Thursday 18th June 2015
-    text: I have a vector 3 computer with dual 400k floppy drives and cords. I also have software, Memorite word processor, Payroll, spread sheet and general ledger. If anyone is interested, give me a holler at above e-mail. .... Barry
-  - author: Andrew Lynch (Ohio)
-    date: Sunday 18th November 2007
-    text: |-
-      The is a mailing list for Vector Graphic computers if you are interested in them. All VG related topics welcome.
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-      Please join us at:
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-      http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=VECTOR-GRAPHIC
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-      Thanks!
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-      Andrew Lynch
-  - author: van Treek, Mike (Belgium)
-    date: Monday 20th August 2007
-    text: When I was 11 years old I follow my first computer formation, in Rancagua (Chile). The Vector 3 was the first PC that I use, in 1986. It's funny to see it after 21 years... in a museum. I getting older?
-  - author: Thomas Hardy (USA)
-    date: Friday 6th July 2007
-    text: |-
-      1982 - I was using this computer at a magazine publishers. We used DBASE2, Memorite III and were connected via Centronics interface, to a large, wide, noisy Mannesman Tally dot-matrix printer for printing subscription labels every month.
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-      If I can remember rightly, we either had an external 5 or a 10 megabyte hard drive. Backups were very, very slow every month with the boxes of 5 1/4" floppy disks.
-  - author: Mike (Rock Hill, SC)
-    date: Wednesday 4th October 2006
-    text: '"Vector Graphics" was the name of the company, not the name of this particular computer.'
-  - author: Stephen Knotts (USA)
-    date: Monday 29th November 2004
-    text: |-
-      Why was it called "Vector Graphics" if it has no graphic modes?
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-      Can some expert answer my question?
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-      OK Bye
-  - author: Glyn Cowan (Glasgow Scotland uk)
-    date: Tuesday 11th March 2003
-    text: I think I had one of these I still have the large folder with the operating instructions and imformation on how the various programms that came with it worked. The reason I am not sure is that although mine looked the same it had a duel 5 1/4 inch disc drives in a seperate unit
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