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Commodore 64 Program stored on a Postage Stamp? Lick that!
Remember the old wive's tale of a cancelled Royal Mail stamp holding a dangerous C64 program on it?? Let's explore the myth... Made possible by patrons & our friendly sponsor http://PCBWay.com/activity/c-gift.html & their new "Stand with PCBWayers" global collaboration effort.

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✓ The Real Deal:
• Snake in 1 line of code by Davide Fichera (Hissy Snake™): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AoTobBP73jcroZ8vvCkTQJx9ANgP-3yJ
• Snake in 3 lines of code by Davide Fichera: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WCo3BMarwjgqKsA7XBwlf4jZL9zwvM-N
• Snake original short codes before expansion: https://twitter.com/Naufr4g0/status/1001862438474731522
• Royal Mail Retro Stamps: https://shop.royalmail.com/video-games-stamp-set
• Computed Tomography stamp (chosen partly because it is "41p" or 4/1 (April 1): https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm570.l1313%26_nkw%3Dcomputed%2Btomography%2Bstamp%26_sacat%3D0%26LH_TitleDesc%3D0%26LH_PrefLoc%3D2%26_odkw%3Dcomputer%2Btomography%2Bstamp%26_osacat%3D0&campid=5338319429&toolid=20008
• Teletype 33 hole punching courtesy: http://youtube.com/HomeComputerMuseum
• More on Teletype 33: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33
• The cardkey number pad shown is real and does connect to the joystick port, accessing the keyboard matrix as the real forum posts showed
• More about C64 short codes: https://t.co/WkNnQHimPf?amp=1
• It is dangerous to plug/unplug joystick ports with the machine on due to the risk of static damage to the CIA
• There are C64s/VIC-20s in John Wick movies and one keeping a garage going (see below): https://twitter.com/marcelvandenber/status/784688237218525184

? Happy April Fool's Day:
• The C64 was unharmed, just visual effects
• There is no C64 program held on a stamp ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• It isn't possible to input data from paper with a light pen
• I didn't quite have 64K subscribers when I filmed this, it really was 63.6K
• Though there was no Gladiator Morseus (Morse Code was invented by Samuel Morse in the 1830s) the Wikipedia was based on this superbly named bloke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus
• The first barcode was used in 1974 by Wrigleys, not 1891
• There weren't over 100 light pens for the C64 but there were ~15: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Light_pen
• That light pen I showed was
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