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Twittjr is a system that allows an IBM PCjr to search the public timeline on Twitter. In case you weren’t aware, Twitter is a social micro-blogging service introduced in 2006 and has over five million active users. The IBM PCjr is a personal computer introduced in 1984 and has a 4.77MHz processor, 128KB of RAM, and uses 360KB floppy disks [...]

Recently I’ve been getting my new project, “Twittjr” (a mashup of Twitter and an IBM PCjr), ready to attract people to the CSH booth at GCCIS for ImagineRIT. Coding in Cartridge BASIC on a PCjr is simultaneously a fascinating and frustrating experience. On the one hand, it’s kind of annoying to not have any modern conveniences like, say, functions. But [...]