I visited JJ's shop (https://obsoletetech.us) yesterday to fill some gaps before my demo this week.

He graciously let me borrow his Magnavox CM8562 monitor from his personal collection, so I can still demo my CoCo3, as my new Tandy CM-8 is having signal issues I haven't fully diagnosed. I also got a working Commodore 1541-II floppy drive to replace my broken 1541 and a cassette recorder to use instead of my CCR-82.

I intended to just get some floppy disk holders for my floppies, but walked out with a lot of floppies too! Lots of colorful ones, some with dinosaurs, 10x of LDS Personal Ancestry File 2.3 for MS-DOS, two Commodore diagnostics disks, and several with interesting-sounding software. I also got two magneto-optical discs with data, which will be nice tests for my recovery setup, and four Zip disks.

The mouse will be a nice fit with my Macintosh SE. I don't know what games use the Commodore paddles, but now I have them.

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

@thalia

now i want dinosaur floppies :(