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@RetroTechChris
Nov 18 • 11 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Let's have a look at some pictures I took at today's Washington DC Area retro meetup. I'll make a thread!

First, a Packard Bell Legend 100CD with some nice expansion, and an IBM PS/1. Also, a Compaq Portable 286, an IBM NetVista and Compaq Deskpro! Image
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Next, we have @retrobitstv who brought an EVO64 with TONS of cool sound options! Image
Next, we have a Replay 68060 from FPGAArcade. Yep, that's a real CPU in there. Very cool device. Image
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Next, we have some Amigas, featuring some reproduction hardware. Commodore was very well represented today! Image
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Apple II was in the house. We have a IIGS connected up via FujiNet and a very nice IIc Image
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Were there Macs? Oh you know it! Color Classics are awesome, as are Macintosh TVs. And there was a Macintosh Portable as well! Image
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Believe it or not, this Compaq LTE 5300 is not mine 😂 Image
An Acorn A4000. Paging @NoodlesTech 😂 Image
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@NoodlesTech An Apple Pippin running System 7.5.2, I believe! That's pretty cool. Image
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@NoodlesTech This MZ-700 is looking pretty Sharp 😂. And, look, an Atari STacy. No, it was not powered on. Image
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@NoodlesTech And finally we'll wrap with a TI99/4A, a Commodore VIC-20 and 64, and.. .a Vectrex!!

Lots to see at this regional meetup of ours. Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

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I picked up a PCMCIA 6 in 1 Multi Card Adapter at our retro meetup on Sunday. I always thought it would be neat to have one, but never got around to having one until now. I don't have it working yet, but I think I know why! Let's explore it in a 🧵 here! Image
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Nov 19
I picked up this 5.25" 1.2 MB FDD at our Sunday retro meetup. I gave it a test, but it has a problem that's probably going to REALLY limit its usability. Let's explore in a 🧵 here! Image
First of all, the drive is a Mitsubishi MF504C-347UA. Say that five times fast! The Google tells me it is 1.2 MB, at least if this "for sale" post I found is to be believed. Okay, well, that's good! Image
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We're going to test it out in one of my favorite PCs: the 486 DX2/66 that is loaded to the brim with CD-ROM drives. And expansion cards too. Image
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Nov 19
I received some GREAT stickers from @geekenspiel today! And it's given me an idea, and, yes, it involves the eMachines T2341! Let's talk about it in a 🧵 here! Image
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As such, I think the only logical thing to do is to start adding matching stickers 😂. Is it going to be over the top? Why.. yes! Is it going to be glorious though? Oh... absolutely yes🤣
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Nov 16
It's time for another OS install on the eMachines T2341 Athlon XP 2400+ machine, and this time, it's IBM OS/2 Warp 4.52. The end result for this is VERY impressive. Get ready for a long 🧵 with details. Buckle up, here we go! Image
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I burned two disks, one is the "boot" CD and one is the "client" CD. Naturally, you start with the "boot" CD, then when asked, you put the "client" CD. And then the installer gets rolling! Image
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Nov 16
Time for another OS install on the eMachines T2341. This time, it's Windows NT 3.51. Prepare to be underwhelmed by this install 😂. I'll explain more, let's do a 🧵 Image
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So, similar to other NT installs, I copied the contents of the i386 directory to a FAT16 drive partition. Running winnt /b, we are able to do a diskless install from there! Phase 1 of 3 completes pretty quickly. Image
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Time for the "DOS-based" portion of the install, we'll call it Phase 2. During this part, we get to choose the install location and get to choose to convert the partition to NTFS if so desired. I elected to do just that. Image
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