Tokyo Retro Computer Users

Summer was in full force but we don’t let a little heat get in the way of our passion for technologies obsolete. Sean arrived with his X1 D with games for dumping and testing, and about a kilogram’s worth of paper for scanning. Ondrej brought in his fragile but still-working Toshiba Libretto running DOS and…

We had a pretty busy meetup this week, but surprisingly few photos to document it. As you can see, though, technology use was at a fever pitch between: Michelle’s Apple IIe with monochrome monitor and dual drives, playing Ultima: Curt’s Tomy Pyuta and Super Cassette Vision for analysis and repair attempt: Sean’s Book 8088, a…

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…