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1. Games That I Missed (gamesmissed@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 09:43:39 JST Games That I Missed

   I visited the MIT Flea today! A great selection of vintage '70s and '80s computers this time. I saw people happily boxing up VIC-20s and TRS-80s to take home. This is going to be a thread of some of what I saw, followed by what I ended up with myself.

   #NewEnglandVintageComputing #MITFlea

   • Games That I Missed (gamesmissed@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 09:43:37 JST Games That I Missed

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     I'd never seen a Honeywell computer in person before.

   • Games That I Missed (gamesmissed@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 09:43:37 JST Games That I Missed

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     I am enough of a nerd that I got excited the moment I saw this. I'd never seen a Pocket Disk before, either! This feels like something I should tag in @foone, since I believe they have a disk medium collection?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 09:43:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @GamesMissed very cool! These disks are super rare.

   • Games That I Missed (gamesmissed@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 09:43:38 JST Games That I Missed

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     (It just occurred to me that it's time for dinner, and I should get on that before posting more. Back later with more pictures.)

   • Games That I Missed (gamesmissed@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 09:43:38 JST Games That I Missed

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     Two Compaq luggables. I really like the orange shade on the keys of the visible keyboard.

   • Games That I Missed (gamesmissed@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 09:43:38 JST Games That I Missed

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     A tower of Wang chassis, and a monitor. I thought these were computers, but looking at them now, are these just extensions boxes to house the floppy drives? There's nothing visible on any of them aside from the drives themselves.

   • Games That I Missed (gamesmissed@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 09:43:39 JST Games That I Missed

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     This was a tiny, beautiful little terminal. I think the screen was only 8 or 10 inches diagonal, and the keyboard was similarly compact.

   • Games That I Missed (gamesmissed@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 09:43:39 JST Games That I Missed

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     I don't know what this is, but it was beautiful. I considered buying it just for that alone.