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A Truck Sized Printer Or An Egg Sized Dave? - This Week In Retro 130
Category: Technology
Duration: 01:07:58
Publish Date: 2023-07-01 09:00:00
Description:

The merging of two technologies can sometimes create something wonderful, in this case it is dot matrix printer the size of a pickup truck, that you can drive and print messages as you go. Could this be the future of road signage? What is the first easter egg in a game that you remember finding? Can you use an Apple II to control a V8? You can if the V8 is made of Lego. 

All this plus the usual nonsense and the Community Question Of The Week.

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00:00 - Show Opening

A500 Mini Housekeeping Link: https://gamingretro.co.uk/you-can-now-play-atari-st-emulator-games-on-a500-mini/

09:09 - Trucking Printers
Story Link: https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/is-this-the-worlds-largest-dot-matrix-printer/

29:50 - The Ultimate Easter Egg
Story Link: https://ultimacodex.com/2023/06/eating-magic-mushrooms-makes-you-fly-in-serpent-isle/
Additional Link 1: https://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Easter_Eggs_and_Cultural_References#Ultima_VII
Additional Link 2: http://web.archive.org/web/20080307160850/http://www.geocities.com/hoki_dragon/u7-scientology.html

44:10 - V8 Apple II
Story Link: https://www.thedrive.com/news/life-size-chevy-454-v8-made-of-lego-runs-on-ancient-8-bit-hardware
Full Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-x7YFMWnBQ

56:13 - Community Question of the Week
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