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wyatt (wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 13:48:08 JST wyatt

Probably forgetting and miscategorizing a lot of stuff but here's a PC-9801 series iceberg
#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #NEC
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1. Photo of an iceberg, separated into eight sections; two above water and six underwater. In the sky above the iceberg is the most well known stuff; deep in the ocean is the most bespoke and ascended stuff. Next to each section is an illustrated picture of a guy who gets increasingly disheveled as we go further underwater, eventually he has glowing red eyes, then turns into some cryptid dolphin, and finally becomes one with the universe in the bottommost layer. Top level: just sky is visible. Above the iceberg. "PC-9821" "PC-9801" "NEC" "MS-DOS" "Touhou Project" "Pretty pixel art" "Adult games" Next down: The iceberg, the part of it above the water's surface. "16 colour palette, with 4096 possible colours" "Epson clones" "C-Bus" The highest level below water contains a huge chunk of iceberg and says: ".MAG format (tuna paint)" "Post-V30 CPU incompatibilities" "8-colour models" "360RPM 1.2MB 3.5 inch floppy disks" "YMF288 sound incompatibilities" "Early USB" "Japanese copyright law" The next level down is another huge chunk of iceberg, in somewhat darker water. contains: "Subtle keyboard model incompatibilities" "'Epson Check'" "3-Mode floppy drives" "Dumping [EP]ROM's" "Graphics Accelerators" "monochrome and 200-line video modes" "PCI/Pentium-Era Machines" The next level down, the iceberg is narrowing again and getting darker. "Kanji ROM expansions" "Model-specific FDD cables" "FreeDOS-98" "MegDOS" "CPU upgrade boards" "metal contact mouse encoder wheels" "bus width switch" "Upgrading [EP]ROM's" The next level down is the bottom of the iceberg, it's very dark here. Contains: "CD-SD SCSI driver" "8-inch floppy drives" "Modding the BIOS" "FreeBSD-98" "Re-wire JEDEC RAM for Epson PC's" "APC I, APC II, and APC III" Next is the level with the cryptid dolphin with black sockets for eyes. The iceberg is gone, there's only a little light left. "PC-UX," "PC-FX," and "High resolution models" are here. Finally, at the bottom, pure blackness. Contents: "PC-9801-04 (perforated prototyping C-bus board)" "PC-9801-13 (cassette drive)" "PC-9801-16 (68000 CPU)" The picture to the side her is of someone ascending to godhood.
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