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The Idiot’s Idiot Line

Authors

Irving Helbling

Publication

Pro/File Updates

Pub Details

Pro/file Updates v1 n3Volume: 1 Issue: 3

Date

July 1984

Pages

4
See all articles from Pro/file Updates v1 n3

Despite the safeguards built into ZX Pro/ File, I have managed to erase by mistake two pages of data. Consequently, I devised this Idiot’s idiot line.

Products

  • ZX Pro/File

Tags

1984 TS 1000 Type-in program

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