I'll be at the #MITFlea / #Swapfest tomorrow morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts. If you see a large man walking around in an orange Mill Forge Makerspace shirt, that's likely me. Say hi, if you like! I'll have my #3DS on me as well, if you want to trade Streetpass pings.
I'm not looking for anything in particular, it's just a fun event to visit. I'll try and get photos of the good stuff and post it here as a thread.
#Boston area #Macintosh people: I bought a few cheap IDE optical drives from a person who's selling off older Macs for cheap. It looks like they're down to just G3 and CoreDuo MacBooks, but if that's what you're interested in:
https://boston.craigslist.org/nos/sys/d/stoneham-vintage-apple-mac-computers-g3/7855256131.html
The person is cool and knows their stuff.
I got an eBay hit on a TransWarp GS card for (relatively) cheap (https://www.ebay.com/itm/267258221830)! It's being sold by The Byte Shop (https://byteshop.io/), a Boston-area vintage computer museum/repair shop, and a very cool place!
Wait, this is "For Parts or Repair Only," what's going on ... ? Ah. Crap. The listing is very honest. A previous owner has made a terrible hash of the traces to the CPU socket.
Anyone else brave enough to try this?
Just before the Easter weekend, I received the replacement #SCSI card from the very kind eBay seller. I updated them to know it had arrived in good order, but that I wasn't going to be able to try it out for a few days because of guests and festivities.
But I got around to it. AND I INSTALLED IT THE RIGHT WAY 'ROUND THIS TIME.
(I'm never going to forget that I did that ...)
#IIgs #AppleIIgs #Retrocomputing #NewEnglandVintageComputing
@siracusa I keep thinking that I'm going to get to the end of the photos, and they just keep going ...
#NewEnglandVintageComputing, you should see this.
Does anyone know if this is a yearly event ?
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