knizerI'm sure I'm missing something this week. Its Spring, y'all! I hope to get out a bit more with the warm weather. April 19th, #Bostodon meetup at #MITFlea - mark your calendar! #BostonWeekend
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Games That I MissedI picked up two #StreetPass visits this past weekend at the MIT Flea. One a repeat from a previous Flea, and one new. Lots of new puzzle pieces!
I had a StreetPass sign up at my tables, and a lot of people stopped to comment on it. Chatted about favorite games, what got us into video gaming ... really nice people. Most didn't have a *DS on them, but said they'd bring it along in the spring.
In reality, I never played Out Run as a kid. But I did play a *LOT* of Rad Racer on my relatives' NES, and I loved the game. I picked this up yesterday at the MIT Flea/Swapfest yesterday, after I packed up my tables and did a quick run over to visit some other vendors I'm acquainted with.
The sticker on this one reads $12, but the vendor told me to give him $10 so he didn't need to make change. Happy to do so.
shrFound this PII Dell tower for $40 at the MIT Flea today. Also got a power cable, mouse, and keyboard for it while I was there. 450mhz and 256mb RAM. Hoping I can use this to make a decent late '90s gaming PC. I think the seller said it has some sort of ATI Rage graphics card but I might need to get a better one.
I don't have space for a CRT right now. I'm going to try to hook it to my monitor with a VGA to HDMI adapter.
#MIT #MITFlea #boston #CambridgeMA #retro #retrocomputing #retrogaming
Good morning from the MIT Flea!
I've already sold both of my Power Macintoshes. So much floor space recovered!
Great stuff here today. A table at the entrance has at least half a dozen Trash Can Macs!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@GamesMissed/115378712152262192
Just a reminder: stop by and say hi at the MIT Flea / Swapfest tomorrow morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts! I'm happy to chat, you can poke at old and underpriced computers, and I might even convince you to take some free stuff!
1st Addendum (I'm sure there will be more):
I'll have a few Skylanders Starter Packs for the Xbox 360. $5 will get you the disc in case, a portal, and two Skylanders. Did you recently pick up a cheap 360 to jailbreak it? Why not pick up a complete game with cool figurines?
The last MIT Flea / Swapfest of the year is this coming Sunday, October 19th. I will be selling! I want stuff out of my home! All unreasonable offers will be entertained and/or entertaining!
Among other things I will have are:
- a Power Macintosh 7200/90 with a 300 MHz G3 upgrade card
- a 400 MHz G4 Graphite desktop, in its original box
- a Miyoo PocketGo, the predecessor to the Miyoo Mini (i.e., a #GameDad)
#BostonWeekend #MITFlea #Swapfest #Retrocomputing #VintageMac
This year, I went from having zero #PowerPC computers to four (this is objectively too many Macintoshes; would you like one?).
Three of them internal Zip drives. I hadn't owned a Zip disk in decades. Do those drives work? Who knows?
To answer the question, this month I purchased a 100 Mbyte Zip disk at the #MITFlea for $1. Today, while trying to get work done, I'll be shuffling the systems around the office to test the drives, and the disk. What are my likely outcomes?
Drives are duds
Drives spin, but disk is a dud
Drives work, disk is readable!
Small, locally contained fires
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