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		rjsw on July 28, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rust Platform It would help if you gave a hint on which technological backwater you are describing. It wasn't any harder to buy stuff in Western Europe in the early 80s than it was in the US.

pjmlp on July 28, 2016 [–]

Portugal late 70's, early 80's in a small town village.

Average salary would be around 300 euros when converted for today's currency

We had just gotten out of a dictatorship.

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