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I missed the opportunity to buy an Aqua Mouse promo that had small house in the bubble, and I didn't see what it was promoting. It was a ball mouse, not a laser like in the video below. Would love ot hvae one of these Sims one.

I didn't know these existed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_410_Color_Plotter Anyone have one. or built one to adapt to their Apple II?

Any fun plans for Septandy? There's a lot happening already, though... I am looking forward to hearing how @Performa's incoming purchase looks, and what he picks up for it at MVCF

Love INC of South Wood County has partnered with Elite Energy Distribution to bring an Electronics Recycling event to Wisconsin Rapdis at no cost to you! So gather up your old electronics and bring them on August 19th. Immanuel Lutheran Church 160 8th Street Wis. Rapids, 9AM to 1PM...

@Performa , Would you create a sharable Google Calendar with events related to club events? This would include things that club members might want to attend but we don't have an official presence at. I think it would also be useful to include "What if?" events for activities you'd like to...

Folks have or hacked on a :CueCat? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat I may have one in a box if someone is interested. I picked one up long after the service was discontinued and intrigued by the ideas of bar code reading. It was not a good reader, so I abandoned it. I would make a nice...

My in-laws had a Macintosh II when I was dating my wife. It got a lot of SimCity play :) I learned they still have it so asked to take it and see how it worked, as I was now associated with a club. Here's some pictures. I haven't fired it up yet. Gun-shy about capacitors...

I've read Michael Swaine' https://pragprog.com/titles/fsfire/fire-in-the-valley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_BASIC Have you heard of requirements to adapt it, build a keyboard, or run on emulators?

There is an SD Card disk interface for the Color Computer called "CoCo SDC". Currently they are out of stock. Anybody have one?

Any tinkering plans for your long weekend? Looking forward to running systems with visiting relatives?

https://facebook.com/events/s/bithistory-surplus-sale/1271598627020044/

I picked up a Microsoft keyboard I hadn't seen before at Plover Goodwill tonight ($2, after color discount.) Microsoft Sidewinder X6 I did notice it didn't have a numpad, but I learned at home it has a detachable one. Wonder if there's one floating around Plover Goodwill :D I'm not in a hurry...

Stoked to get this at Goodwill yesterday ($10) -- I hadn't even heard of it https://upperstory.com/turingtumble/ I have heard of a vintage toy (plastic or wood) like this, but not the modern one. More to come when I dig in.

https://hackaday.com/2022/09/23/exploring-texas-instruments-forgotten-cpu/ Origin of the mucro.story

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/408258384803868/

Learned there are a number of kid friendly Linux distros out there: https://itsfoss.com/educational-linux-distros/ I am so gald the GCompris suite is still going:

The first computer I saved up for was a tower home built (386DX40), and as I'm not much of a PC gamer (FPS motion sickness and board game fascination), I have been content with laptops for the last 20 years. When a friend was all but giving away this Lenovo Tower with a decent amount of RAM...

If you're building fun faux macs, this is a neat web CSS styling resource: https://sakofchit.github.io/system.css/ Example: https://hackaday.com/tag/mac-classic/

Picked up this 1969 at a garage sale yesterday. Need to use a magnifier to read the text. :} https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/Post.htm Search page for "eledyne Post 44BA-470 (1969)" Sorry, no id links. Nifty that they include a short bio of the donor/contributor. with full picture here...