Today's memory: that moment when I discovered a failing COCOT phone displaying Unicode.pic.twitter.com/5oHdylZDDf
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Oh hey, that's the LCD display controller for which I wrote a tiny Raspbery PI ruby lib https://github.com/nsatragno/rpi-hd44780 … I remember having to do some magic to get ñ to display
I was writing HD44780 libs for 8-bit PICs in assembler back when Flash memory was new, dev boards connected via parallel port, Arduino didn't exist and rPi was sci-fi. Get off my lawn! 
(Jokes aside, half of my childhood microcontroller projects used one of these 
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