Our group of vintage adventurers reconvened at Coedo for another day of fun, 8 bits at a time. As is typical, Sean arrived first, this time bringing his PC-8801MC… and not much else! Like, no keyboard to use the PC-8801MC with, some games, but half of them couldn’t even do their intros without the keyboard. What a dummy! He also brought in his non-powering NEC PC-6601 for inspection. Andy and Justin poked and prodded at it and threw out theories. Edoardo eventually took it home with him.
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Fortunately, Michelle would join a few hours later and brought in her own PC-8801 keyboard, so the PC-8801MC could get some actual use! Not only that, she brought in a compatible CD-ROM drive so we could catch a glimpse of the in-ROM CD player functionality. Cool!
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Sven brought in a perfectly working computer board, at last! Full VGA output and keyboard interface and all. Great project! Look at that fractal! Legend has it, it died a few days later.
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Andy took his Apple IIc along for some maintenance and games. It’s such a conveniently portable model compared to the previous II series machines. And there were some classics played for sure.
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Curt took great effort in pointlessly bringing along his Basic Master Level 3. It’s a beast of a machine that didn’t even fit in his own luggage; he had to borrow something from Sven, and then it didn’t even get plugged in once!
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Saburo brought in a variety of goodies, including tapes for Curt’s Basic Master Level 3, which obviously also did not get used. His NEC PC-2001, however, did get some use, including a whack-a-mole game for the tiny, tiny screen. He also spent some time completing one of the totally whack games that Tom brought in.
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In addition to some games, Tom also had with him his Panasonic MSX Turbo R A1-ST WP, how’s that for a model name?
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