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Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well.
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I'm gonna see if I can get my raspi to boot from a spinning rust drive. Why not?

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@foone Absolutely possible. I have a couple of the discontinued WD Labs PiDrives here, they work well, albeit slowly:

https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/articles/western-digital-pidrive

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I visited the MIT Flea today! A great selection of vintage '70s and '80s computers this time. I saw people happily boxing up VIC-20s and TRS-80s to take home. This is going to be a thread of some of what I saw, followed by what I ended up with myself.

#NewEnglandVintageComputing #MITFlea

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This was a tiny, beautiful little terminal. I think the screen was only 8 or 10 inches diagonal, and the keyboard was similarly compact.

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I don't know what this is, but it was beautiful. I considered buying it just for that alone.

A photograph of some sort of electronics interface equipment. A wide brushed steel face plate is set between two dark brown wooden panels. Set in the steel face place are dozens of round terminal jacks in every color of the rainbow, with lines connecting or grouping some jacks and electrical circuit diagram signals next to others. Above and below the field of jacks are wide green female connectors, some of which are labeled "TRANSCONDUCTOR" or "AMPLIFIER." To the left of the jacks are the words "OPERATIONAL RP MANIFOLD." To the right are "PHILBRICK RESEARCHES," with the words separated by a logo. At the bottom right are the words, "BOSTON, MASS USA."
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    (It just occurred to me that it's time for dinner, and I should get on that before posting more. Back later with more pictures.)

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    Two Compaq luggables. I really like the orange shade on the keys of the visible keyboard.

    A photograph of two Compaq "luggables" portable computers. The one on the left has the keyboard detached and laying in front of it. The keys have discolored to a surprisingly attractive orange sherbet shade. The computer's case is somewhat grimy, and there's a sizable chunk of plastic broken away from the right side of the keyboard. All the keys are there, though. A sticker on above the disk drives reads "+ Hardcard." The computer on the right still has its keyboard covering the monitor and drives, but looks overall to be in slightly better cosmetic shape. A sticker on the front face -- so, the underside of the keyboard -- reads "Compaq Portable III."
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    A tower of Wang chassis, and a monitor. I thought these were computers, but looking at them now, are these just extensions boxes to house the floppy drives? There's nothing visible on any of them aside from the drives themselves.

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    I'd never seen a Honeywell computer in person before.

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    I am enough of a nerd that I got excited the moment I saw this. I'd never seen a Pocket Disk before, either! This feels like something I should tag in @foone, since I believe they have a disk medium collection?

    A photograph of a Sharp CE-1600P, a docking station for the Sharp PC-1600 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_PC-1600) that contained a color plotter (not a printer!), a cassette interface, and the floppy drive from the previous photo.

    foone , an Random Englisch
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    damn it, irfanview 4.4 is too big to put on a floppy disk

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    @foone Such a brilliant program. I used it so much back when, I paid for a registration when I even started using it at work.

    It had the most bonkers conversion capabilities. Do you need a plaintext file converted into a PNG? No, no one needs that. But IrfanView is happy to do it.

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