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It's October 12th of 2024, six days after the last time I updated this main blurb.
I put it on the RC2024/10 page but my Sharp MZ-80K PSU kinda just exploded in my face. I knew it was going to happen, the things are pretty shoddily-built (out of the four I've seen anyways) and the caps like to either spill their filling all over the board or just fail. It seems I got the latter 'cause my basement needed to have some fans installed to suck smoke out! The mainboard of the system is a-ok, I went off and tested it in a Sharp MZ-80C where it powered up and happily ran RAM tests with a diagnostic ROM, but I guess I'll be rebuilding that power supply today.
A bit of chatting with friends has the February airsoft game set to be a damn fun one. Tickets went live and two buddies and I got ours. One of the guys who we played with got his, the staff member who serves as our leader got his, a friend got theirs, and a coworker is going to get theirs. Eight people means a squad and it's looking like we'll have that, something that should be quite neat! I also got official approval for the idea of making a sheet metal/pipe-based improvised weapon being a-ok for the LARP unit. I guess I know what my project going into next year is now.
Speaking of projects, I guess I'm getting into Commodore systems now? I've always wanted a PET but the prices have always been out of my league, everyone told me how X68000s were expensive (I got all of mine for $350 or less) while PETs were fetching $500, $750, hell even $1000 with zero issues on eBay whenever I would look. I actually ended up finding someone selling one (a 16K 2001N missing a PIA) alongside a printer and a 4040 for $400. Even more fun, I showed a picture of it to someone at my work who remembered the name Commodore. They said they had "something Commodore" in their basement, turns out it's an early-ish VIC-20 (AC power input but the VIC/C64 keyboard, not a PET keyboard) alongside some carts and a datasette drive. They said they'll bring it to me sometime next week so that should be fun too, I used to have a late VIC and I loved just about every part of it except that janky power supply.
So yeah, I guess I'll have a few more pages going up within a month or so. RetroChallenge updates, the Timex Sinclair 2068 I got once I get a PSU that fits it, the PET, the VIC, whatever I start drafting out for airsoft, maybe finally a Conventions section...
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