Notices by Games That I Missed (gamesmissed@mastodon.social)

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

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

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

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.

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

(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.)

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?

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

@foone I was getting to where I thought I was the only person on Earth who preferred MX Blacks. Still my favorite keyswitch, although I admit I have not tried most of the enormous range of keyswitches that have come onto the market in the past ten years.

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