Dear Editor: Character Generator Add-On and Thoughts on Technology Churn

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Letter from Dick Wagner: describes demonstrating an EPROM-based character generator add-on (Spyder Electronics) for his ZX81, prompting questions about high-resolution PLOTting. He wrote to the manufacturer and discovered they had gone out of business. Reflects on technology churn: new products spawn new businesses while dropping others into obsolescence. Editorial response discusses the value of affordable low-cost computing.

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