This is it. This is what it was all for. All the penposting. The hundreds of dollars of irresponsible eBay purchases.

For this moment.

And it was all worth it.

#retrocomputing #lightpen

Please don't stop posting about light pens. You hear me?
@thoe I am running out of things to post about them! I will eventually be publishing a huge blog post about them, and uploading a dump of all this shit to archive.org so you can join the pen cult
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I'm regretting selling off my old CRT monitors a long time ago, and I'm actively looking for something, anything, to fill the void left by those sales. I'm not the only one. It seems retro is cool now. Once I can find something that works, I'll join the pen cult. If I can find a pen once I've found a monitor.
@thoe the nice thing about these old old CRTs is that they are tiny so fairly easy to store. I have eaten cakes larger than the CMII in one sitting
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Need to find one before I can store it! Searching for CRT in $MYCITY on our equivalent of Craigslist yields five ads looking for CRTs, one selling an Amiga 500 with an ACA500+ and original 1084S, and someone selling porn on VHS.
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The Amiga is $1200, so it's a bit out of my price range at the moment :P