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I started with seeing no one interested in some Mac SE ROM SIMMs and this weird EGA clone card and now I wound up just buying a bunch of spare parts from one seller lol
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oh boy
<andlabs>
so remember that weird Sophia Systems computer that I said I purchased earlier this week?
<andlabs>
well I have it now and I just learned something I didn't notice at the time that Foone and maybe also madeline will like
<NiGHTS>
Pietro Gagliardi sur Twitter : "in other news, so I picked this up after seeing it languish on ebay for months and only now that I have it in front of me do I realize oh my god I'm laughing lots it has finally happened I finally own a computer with an 8" floppy drive! and it's a luggable no less!… https://t.co/4EKhQwhKqk"
<Foone>
ooh, fancy
<qu1j0t3>
impressive
<andlabs>
also yes I know the floppy disk I'm holding up is upside down
<andlabs>
it's because I don't want ot leak what it has on its label
<andlabs>
that was supposed to be the project I finished next before the pandemic starte and then it just never happened oops
<Foone>
yeah I'm sure you're not the only person in that situation
<andlabs>
that project is what pushed me down the rabbit hole of Vintage Computer Collection
<andlabs>
you start with one rare piece of music hardware and its associated software for the C64 and it just snowballs from there