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Hugin

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12. Yes, indeed 'they' do!

Reply to Prairie_Seagull (Reply #11)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 01:31 PM

Dec 2025

Available in the school supplies section of the average grocery store. In all of their seven segment ten digit glory. Most with memory!

Just lurking there capable of putting the next human on the Moon.

So under appreciated.

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