They don’t make home computers like this anymore (probably a good thing) #retrocomputing
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 03:04:08 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ -
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 03:05:07 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ (This is also only the expansion box, not the actual computer!)
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Stu (tehstu@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 03:15:55 JST Stu @thomasfuchs Dang, is that a full-height 5.25 floppy drive? I'm not entirely sure I've ever seen one of those in the flesh.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 03:17:22 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @tehstu yup, I have bunch of these, eg in this commodore dual drive
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Alexandra Magin 🏳️🌈 (recursive@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 03:17:41 JST Alexandra Magin 🏳️🌈 @thomasfuchs which, by comparison, is like a cheap plastic toy :)
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Stu (tehstu@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 03:21:49 JST Stu @thomasfuchs Just knowing how wide they are, those are unfathomably tall. It makes much more sense that PCs of that vintage used to advertise half-height drives as a feature (or at least, I have vague recollections of this).
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FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 03:25:51 JST FeralRobots @thomasfuchs Did this go with a 99/4A (which IIRC was similar footprint to a Tandy ColorComputer)? Or was this for a big sibling of the 99/4A?
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 03:25:51 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @FeralRobots yes goes with the 99/4A which is tiny in comparison
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