Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

BOOT ERROR PB

Meaning: Remove peanut butter & jelly sandwich or other foreign object from disk drive.

The computer arrived with this drive's door shut. How did they even get that far in there?

When you ship #vintagecomputers, folks, *PLEASE* cover and protect the openings before pouring packing peanuts into the box!

I now own a TRS-80 Model III that *must* be disassembled because styrofoam peanuts are clogging the disk drive cavities and edge connector openings.

I shouldn't be shopping for vintage computers, especially at this hour, but someone is definitely as much of a geek as I am. They're selling a TI-99/4A for $99.4A:

Good morning, and merry Ostara.

Palmdle 1.1 274 (6/6)

Palmdle 272 (3/6)

Almost forgot.
Palmdle 271 (4/6)
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Why the Apple II didn't support lowercase letters: https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why-the-apple-ii-didnt-support-lowercase-letters #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

@LaserScheme I played the 2600 version long before finding an arcade version, and I never saw the moon buggy's locomotion as anything else. :3

Reminder to USA folks: If your vintage computer keeps time and has time zone rules, it's going to tell the wrong time (an hour slow) for the next three weeks: today through April 3.

One of the things I don't miss about magazine type-in programs is that, if they published a bug in their code, you usually had to wait 2 or 3 issues for them to publish a fix.

Today, that means finding & reading the 5 issues following a program before you start typing it in.

@arilin Every time I see that on Twitter, I think it's a filename extension for a ransomwared file, and I want to delete it and replace it with a backup copy before it infects my computer.