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    Hardware / Software Engineer Thomas Cherryhomes Discusses his Fujinet Retrocomputing Projects

    enFebruary 21, 2024
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    About this Episode

    Thomas Cherryhomes joins to the show to discuss FujiNet ... a series of add-on direct-connect devices for 80's era home computers that provides a number of extended Internet capabilities to those machines.

    Thom's links:
    https://fujinet.online 

    https://irata.online/ 

    For more information about Stray Pointers including the link to the Facebook group and contact information, please visit:
    https://straypointers.com   

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