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The Home Computer Hybrids: Atari, TI, and the FCC (technicshistory.com)
24 points by cfmcdonald 6 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment




It's a good thing that the FCC clamped down on RF emissions. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to run computers near each other. A TRS-80 and a Milton Bradley Big Trak (a programmable toy tank) would, if near each other, both crash from RF interference.

RFI incompatibility is almost forgotten as a problem now. That did not happen by accident.




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