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2022年06月25日 - 2022年06月25日の第29回の集会 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. 続き⇒ |
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2022年05月08日 - 2022年05月28日の第28回の集会 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 show and tell. It’s not a very compact system but comes with an integrated floppy drive, fairly novel for that class of system. 続き⇒ |
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2022年04月22日 - 2022年04月22日の第27回の集会 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 bit later, Saburo also brought along his own (huge!) collection of SMC-777 software to play around with, making for a great assortment. 続き⇒ |
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2022年03月26日 - 2022年03月26日の第26回の集会 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. So he and Edoardo just hung out for a while, chatting. Justin and Sven showed up a bit later, Sven with his Z-80 computer project, but without the means necessary to complete it. 続き⇒ |
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2022年02月19日 - 2022年02月19日の第25回の集会 Six members enjoyed our 25th meetup. Sean brought in his Pasopia7 for explosion-prevention courtesy of Edoardo and to play a few games. Considerable time was spent diagnosing the reason why the output would go nearly pitch-black when changing the background color. Justin arrived at the conclusion that it was behaving normally, given the circumstances. 続き⇒ |
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2022年01月22日 - 2022年01月22日の第24回の集会 Although a few of our regulars were not in attendance, we still managed a group of six happy campers at our most recent meet-up. Sean brought his FM-8 in for another visit. It’s had an upgrade performed since the last time it was there – a bubble memory cartridge was added. 続き⇒ |
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We closed out 2021 with out final meetup for the year. Sean arrived first but didn’t bring a computer, just a kanji ROM card and an FM sound card. He was waiting for Curt to bring the FM-7 that he’d purchased on Sean’s behalf. After the failure of bringing a non-working FM sound card last time, it was great to have a working one on hand this time. However, it seems no photos were taken of the FM-7, just the floppy disks that came with it, including this Sesame Street disk! 続き⇒ |
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This was one of our busiest meetups for sure. We numbered 9, including new (distant) member Vicky. 9 is not a record in terms of attendance, but the sense of busyness was magnified because nearly everyone had their own distinct project going on. 続き⇒ |
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Our 21st meetup was hardware-heavy as Sean brought in a couple of computers for repair and Michelle brought in an entire Apple II setup, including floppy drive and full-size monitor, plus a couple of more compact setups courtesy of Curt and Saburo. 続き⇒ |
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It was a little smaller crowd than usual, as our regular members couldn’t line up their schedules on a single day. Hopefully everyone can make it next time! 続き⇒ |
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