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For the 41st meetup, Sean started early with his batch of MSX games for testing and his MZ-1500 + QuickDisk games for dumping/preserving. Unable to play the MSX games until Greg arrived with his MSX machine, and unable to start dumping until Saburo arrived with his QuickDisk dumping, etc. device, MZ-1500 games were played in…

Another TRCU meetup is in the books as we celebrate our (probably) 40th meetup. We didn’t do anything special for #40, but maybe we should think of something for #50. Sean didn’t bring a machine this time, just a bunch of MSX cartridges. This was in coordination with Greg, who brought an MSX computer, but…

Sean brought in a couple of dinky computers to this meetup, as they were in need of some minor repairs. Edoardo to the rescue! He replaced the big capacitor that often goes bad in the PC-8201 and reinforced the audio and video ports in the Takara Game Pasokon. To really test out the PC-8201, Sean…

We started out with Sean and his MZ-1500 as the only attendees for the first 90 minutes or so, but eventually ballooned up to our highest attendance to date – 13 people and a similar number of machines. Sean had recently picked up a number of games for the MZ-1500, which he had also brought…

Our 37th meetup had some unique treasures, for example, Curt brought his Z88 – a portable computer with 80-column display and a menu-driven OS interface. And Saburo brought in his Teradrive for an intense team troubleshooting effort with Edoardo. Michelle brought in not one but two PC-9801 (or compatible) machines AND a 14″ CRT monitor…

We closed out the year with a second December meetup. There were a few visitors and first-time attendees this time around, including Sato, Yasu (actually second time, first was last month), and members from the Game Preservation Society, Joseph and Soji. In addition to coordinating some of the guests, Edoardo also brought along his son…

Another fun gathering by the Tokyo Retro Computer Users is on the books. This time, Andy brought in his Apple II with adorable monochrome monitor for some tinkering and gameplay. Tom came with his MSX2+ and some more interesting games to introduce to everybody. Michelle hauled in her PC-9801 with a music playback utility for…

There was a bit of a modern feel to this retro computer meetup. A couple of computers from the 90s were present, including Sven’s recently-purchased Amiga 1200. We found out that it was mostly in good shape, so that was a bit of good news. And Sean brought… well, actually nothing. But he received the…