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Comment on RF Shielding History: When the FCC Cracked Down on Computers

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Back in the mid-century, we used to put an AM radio anywhere on the same desk next to the TRS-80 and the revealed cacophany was endlessly fascinating. As I recall, radio tuning was unnecessary.

We used to put them next to our TI-58/59 calculators. You could use the radio for sound effects in games.

The first application developed for the MITS Altair, besides watching the blinkenlights blink, was playing music on a nearby AM radio.

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