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Our 33rd meetup began with Sean bringing his FM-77 L2, and Curt bringing a compatible 400-line board and its required 64KB memory expansion board (thus essentially making it an FM-77 L4 with FM sound expansion). As our on-site CRT monitor only supports 15kHz, we had to use our fallback LCD screen that semi-gracefully displays 24kHz…

Our group met for another round of vintage computing activities as we bid adieu to long-time member Justin as he leaves for his home country. This time around, Sean brought his MZ-1500 for another visit. This is the system with the oddball QuickDisk drive, which reads like a tape but goes more or less at…

We convened for another retro rendezvous in Kayabacho. Sean arrived first (surprise!) with his SMC-777C. This was his third time bringing this machine, but this time he also brought his recently-procured disk stash, mostly copies included in a system he recently acquired. The stash included compilations totaling around 20 games, as well as CP/M, system…

It was a mere two weeks since our previous meetup, but this was the day in July that worked out best for the most people so we reconvened early this time. Sean brought a beast of a computer with him, the Casio FP-1100. It has an unusual feature in BASIC that allows you to keep…

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.…

This was our biggest meetup in quite some time, with twelve people in attendance for the first time since the pandemic began. Sean was a bit late, but arrived first with his NEC PC-6601. As it was going on the auction block the next day, it was the only day to bring it in for…

Our meager party began with Sean and his hobbled Sony SMC-777C. The biggest setback was that the machine is intended for analog RGB but we only had the means to hook it up through it’s digital RGB output, meaning 8 fixed colors instead of 16 out of 4096 colors. It’s still a neat machine! A…

Our 26th meetup got off to a slow start, as Sean brought accessories and games for an X68000 that didn’t make it, and a PC-8801 believed not to display to any of our available devices using any of our available connectors. Bad timing, we had just removed the MSX from the locker the month before.…