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Comment Vicinity to the sun? (Score 1) 21

> "Mission control cannot communicate with the probe during this rendezvous due to its vicinity to the sun [sic] ..."

Wait ... "vicinity to the sun"? Don't you mean "proximity to the sun", or "vicinity of the sun"? But one thing for sure -- this piece wasn't written by ChatGPT, which wouldn't have made this elementary error.

Comment An Apple ][ (Score 1) 857

I worked with a few mainframe computers before it, but an Apple ][ was the first computer I owned. I eventually wrote Apple Writer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer) on that machine, made millions, and I still have it --

* Picture when it was new: http://i.imgur.com/CjoRH.jpg

* What it looks like now: http://i.imgur.com/tb4Ea1s.jpg

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