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I have seen movies starting like this.

I had seen advertisments in greek from the Greek importers of the brand. I had asked my mother for it and she delivered.

Since you asked for the greek market I can share one more memory. About a year later, 1982, I wanted to upgrade to Texas Instruments TI-99/4A so I tried to see a machine up close going to the local representative. I ended up at the "company's HQ" which was a small residence appartment in the fifth floor of a building.

I found the door open so I entered a room full with boxes thrown around randomely. After waiting alone for an awkward period of 5-10 minutes, the owner of the company himself emerges from the bathroom with a wet face and kind of surprised to see me. He listened to what I wanted. "It's somewhere there, go and have a look" it's all what he said. He couldn't care less.

13 years later I had my own small company and reselling PC and equimpent was part of the job. The man with the wet face was one of the biggest suppliers in Greece, since besides Texas Instruments he moved on to be the representative of Intel and Microsoft and reseller of many others and the company became on of the biggest in Greece.

Maybe his mentality ("there it is, go and have a look") never changed much though, because a couple decades later the company went bankrupt.

Christmas of 1981 in Athens, Greece. I was 15. Father had died 3 years ago from heart attack at 42. His last words to my mother: "Educate the kids".

She did her best, given that my grandfather was old fashioned and had stopped her from going to school after she became twelve, although she was among the smartest in her class.

That Christmas she had bought me the brand new then Sinclair ZX81 personal computer. We were visiting the grandparents in a small village near Athens.

I spend the night by the fireplace with a small portable TV and the machine, typing in games published in the UK PC magazines of that time and occasionally watching the Chrstmas shows. Debugging my typos was the way I learned how programming works.

Nothing really interesting here, but I am remembering that night again and again so when I saw the prompt I felt I should share. Merry Christmas everyone.

Without even take into consideration that Socrates and Seneca were essentially murdered, forced to commit suicide.

Hi and thank you for the efforts of your team. What can I do to have my country becoming ready for your solution when and if this will be available?

There was an evolution in the language. Homer is harder to read than Plato and Plato is harder to read than the New Testament.

By the time the New Testament was written 50-100 AD the language was quite close to todays form, so you can easily understand it, although it would be harder to talk like this.

Lucian lived about 100 years after this, so the language was easy to read. Moreover his use of the language made it even more easy, because he despised those authors that were trying to appear "serious".

I have read almost all his books as a kid, because I had found them very cheap (10c each) in Athens, Greece where I live. The most impressive is the "style" of the author which was VERY modern.

This is true but partially. Maybe I have memories starting 1-2 years earlier when more than half the games were coming in BASIC listings and you could find some quite complicated and interesting ones among them.

The more advanced I had found was a football (soccer) simulator that was working like a text adventure game, showing you the development of the game by writing the words of the sportcaster in regular time intervals. Being able to understand it and modify it, was a milestone on my growth as future programmer.

Since you mentioned it, situation in Bridge is quite different. Memorising can't give you such a considerable advantage against people who have studied less. This is also one of the many reasons that the game will not be dominated by computers in the near future at least. I have met many chess friends, even a grand master that are playing bridge fanatically because the game remains more "enjoyable".

I thought exactly the same. Maybe it is missing because this notation is still in use.

Yes they did. For what it worths I had established clientele and cashflow.

As a foreigner that used Atlas to incorporate my consulting business, I can certainly vouch for it. It is an excellent example of "one stop shop" philosophy.

I applied to this and I am receiving my card from their consulate in Athens, tomorrow. I spent 50 euros for the application.

I was a friend of Costas since our years in the University and of his fiancee since she was in the elementary school.

When we learned that he had "committed suicide" nothing about the wire tapping scandal was known of course.

At his funeral everybody was saying things like "how he lost his mind". I was telling to everyone that "people do not lose their minds and commit suicide like that", "something else must be behind this death, which is not suicide".

You see this was not a conspiracy theory that was born AFTER the scandal was uncovered. The suicide assumption was just not a plausible scenario in any case.

As a contractor I have said this to my client. I did it because he was a 20 years old student and I felt responsible for him. He went on with the project though. Yes, it was a failure.

In case anybody is interested, the blond singer is Raffaella Carrà.

EDIT: I just noticed that it is mentioned in the origival YouTube page. Anyway I am not removing the comment, because she was really a sex symbol, for all southern Europe in the '70s!

I had the same thought ten years ago. I think this is the best way to work. It was never accepted by the clients though.

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