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@RDKLInc I dunno, my Aquarius gets a decent amount of play at Houston Arcade Expo and such. If you want to talk about obnoxious BASIC, look no further than the Bally Astrocade - imagine programming with an old Nokia brick phone 😛

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@texasrunnerDFW Any ancient computer stuff you're running across? Like, pre-Internet, lucky to have 16 colors kind of stuff 🙏🤓

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@katekora42 Thanks! Figured I'd reinvigorate things with the kids off from school and a less hectic schedule 😃

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Instead of adding Wi-Fi to my Amiga 1200 at yesterday's DFW Amiga meetup, the hard drive tanked. I smelled burning from around the Lisa area. The hard drive mounts to a bracket on top but with the flicker fixer there, it's too fat to fully close. Time to replace with a CF or SD.

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One more Apple ][+ is back to life 😇🙌🎉 I recapped the PSU with a Console5 kit. The LCR meter showed all of the old ones were in spec (especially the 220uF 10V ones, with higher uF and lower ESR than the replacements 😂) ... except for this one where I could spin the body 😆

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@theoliverxp What do you do when no one answers the other end of the line, and it's clearly a spoofed call?

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@tommithetechie I'm in the midst of stockpiling and repairing nine C's and GS's for the portable version of my Tic Tac Dough exhibit for VCFMW this year. The 70s/80s TV game show used regular II's, but C's are way more compact 😉

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@antongale Yeah, pretty sure the rotation feature won't work without the original Pivot cards. I have yet to come across a stash of cards but hopefully!

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about to make the price of Radius Pivot monitors drop like a stone and the cards shoot up

but if I find a pile of cards, they all go bye-bye cheap too

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@davepl1968 Oh, so s/he's the one out here simulating traffic jams on Google Maps 😛

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@RetroTechChris Did you take the crazy red-splattered one 4th from the top? 😀

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I figured that news of a #PC version of #FujiNet for vintage PCs would have generated some buzz.

Nope. It's #@($%@_ impossible to get the word out.

#retrocomputing.

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@RDKLInc Same! Mine has been especially great for powering old PC speakers requiring weird voltages. I've even used it on my iMac G3 Clam until getting a dedicated 24V PSU for it. But as you can see, mine's been vandalized 😂

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@davepl1968 @Jezzer_UK That's pretty cool. I should have an extra IBM 5155 monitor around here. Sounds like it's time for a tube swap!

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@sdf_pubnix That's pretty cool. Someday I'd like to show off my TeleType 56D terminal with my 3B2-300 and MX. I need to go through all the power & caps & such before I dare turn them on!

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@sdf_pubnix I wonder if this is where my extra 4000-60 went 🙂 Had two very clean, let go of one a few months back. Still having a hard time getting my main one talking to my real VT420, but it does terminal emulators fine.

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@davepl1968 Ah yes, good ol' `top` with `-ocpu` is still something I use on my Apple-silicon Mac now & then when it starts to go crazy.

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@RetroTechChris Looks like it's time to make some 4-player joystick controllers and games!

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@MrGoodBits Congratulations 🙌 Mine is still stuck showing 0x00 on the diagnostics port. I'm suspecting it's a bad 8253 driving RST7.5 crazy. What ROM set do you have, 1980 or 1982?

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@tschak SuperCollider ♥️