i guess to sum up why i miss hamfests quickly is to say "hamfests are why, somewhere above my head in the attic, there is a pile of about 8-15 commodore 64s, none of which work, but that my sister got out of curiosity with the plan to see if she could work out how to get one working franken-commodore out of the whole deal, because it was like 15 dollars for the lot"

i feel like this is something that holds immense appeal to a large part of the fediverse