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Found an nice boxed copy of “FPS: Report” for Apple ///. What makes it interesting (to me) is that it’s complete set (it looks like it) and it’s localized version and have two manuals in Swedish. These localized materials are very interesting to me.

PFS: Report (Apple

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THAT .. IS .. ATARI?!

I recently bought an nice boxed, Atari 130XE from Sweden that was quite complete. The model is quite nice as it’s with the new XE-case design as well it have 128k RAM already built in. Sadly the built quality of  the XE-line was somehow

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Tonight I got started and started taking inventory and installing some of the upgrades I picked up. It was fun – but I didn’t have a heap of time to tinker too much….

I am missing the SCSI port screws which allow me to mount the connection to the case as …

I have been on a journey to collect parts for my new IIgs. It has taken a few weeks but by this weekend I should be ready to get to work. I am still waiting on a few other solutions such as an Uthernet II card from A2retrosystems.com and a …

I am a retro computing enthusiast and over the years have mostly focused on Amiga machines as well as classic Mac hardware. However lately I have had the bug to revisit some computers that took me back to my childhood in the early 80’s which were the Commodore 8-bit line …

I was recently listening to the latest episode of Retro Computing Roundtable podcast during which there was mention of a 3-inch floppy disk. No, not 3.5-inch, but 3-inch. These disks are known as Compact Floppy Disks (also “CF2”) and were used in a number of systems outside the US, including

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It is not every day that BBSing moves a man to poetry….

But, there are occasions where it does, as reddit user u/droid_mike proved this past weekend as r/Retrobattlestations‘ BBS Week IV competition drew to a close. The competition rules required participants to make a post to the subreddit’s official

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