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Post by retrobits on Dec 26, 2008 16:00:39 GMT -5
I received an exciting retro gift under the tree this year. Winston, a Retrobits listener, was kind enough to send a TI CC-40 portable computer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_Compact_Computer_40(more info to come in an upcoming podcast...) Did Santa leave retro gifts for anyone else, or did you treat yourself for the holidays? Let us know!!! - Earl
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Post by lorddoomicus on Dec 26, 2008 16:42:00 GMT -5
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Post by dilbert on Dec 26, 2008 17:17:01 GMT -5
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Post by Sidetrack on Dec 27, 2008 3:49:55 GMT -5
My wife bought me a Sega Game Gear. I had one as a kid that ended up getting stolen in grade school. I forgot how power hungry these little hand held systems were. I ended up installing 6 lithium AA batteries in it.
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Post by David Murray on Dec 28, 2008 1:21:41 GMT -5
Did you actually get one of these? Does it at least have a decent sized built-in speaker? Or do you have to use headphones with it?
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Post by robertb on Dec 28, 2008 3:16:06 GMT -5
Did Santa leave retro gifts for anyone else, or did you treat yourself for the holidays? Got a chip from WDC and am still waiting for the SWL and Morse Coach carts and the RGB-to-SVideo adapter to arrive. Oh, a friend gave me a good-looking, complete Super Nintendo system with Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country carts. Gotta get the Trek cart for that, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group videocam.net.au/fcugThe Other Group of Amigoids www.calweb.com/~rabel1/Southern California Commodore/Amiga Network www.sccaners.org/
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Post by Sidetrack on Dec 28, 2008 5:33:07 GMT -5
Ah the SNES, and with the two essential cartridges to add hours of fun! Do you ever go out to the Monday sale in Hanford Robert? They usually have a wide assortment of vintage systems (older computers and gaming).
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Post by dilbert on Dec 28, 2008 14:27:17 GMT -5
Did you actually get one of these? Does it at least have a decent sized built-in speaker? Or do you have to use headphones with it? It came with ear buds and a built in speaker. I'm not really picky on sound, but it does a FAIR job for me. we are talking four(4) AAAs here. :-)
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Post by thurstan on Dec 28, 2008 14:53:19 GMT -5
I sadly got a most un retro machine, a PS3 but I did get a bunch of Sinclair Spectrum games arriving from ebay on Christmas Eve so nearly a christmas present! oh and won a Sinclair Spectrum +3 on boxing day which i cant wait to get my hands on
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Post by robertb on Dec 29, 2008 1:25:14 GMT -5
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Post by dilbert on Jan 1, 2009 12:17:35 GMT -5
Earl,
I this new retro any where close to the PX-8 ?
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Post by Sidetrack on Jan 1, 2009 18:37:48 GMT -5
This wasn't under the tree, but it felt like Christmas all over again... My wife and I were walking around the local Swap meet last Sunday when I came across a unique piece of Sega gaming equipment. It was a Sega CDX (Genesis/Mega drive and CD combo that is the size of a common portable cd player). When I asked the seller how much, they replied with, "Three dollars." I quickly handed the three dollars to the seller and was on my way. When I got home, I had a little clean up and repair to do. I followed an online troubleshoot faq and found that a small fuse on the main board was blown. After cutting out the old fuse, I soldered a small jumper to the affected area. I reassembled the CDX and added the power. After a moment the familiar Sega CD logo screen came up. Needless to say, I am one happy nerd .
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Post by mika73 on Jan 2, 2009 5:32:49 GMT -5
Sidetrack: Sounds very nice
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Post by thurstan on Jan 2, 2009 13:52:29 GMT -5
I love stories like that and experiencing it, i.e. getting something quite valuable for dirt cheap as they think its broken and worthless. You take it home and find its something very simple to fix!
My sinclair spectrum +3 which is quite hard to get hold of for cheap sold to me for 10 quid (usually go for 30 or 40), powered up fine but the floppy drive wouldnt work. opened it up and the drive belt had perished, very simple to diagnose and repair!!!
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Post by archimed on Jan 8, 2009 11:44:04 GMT -5
Got issue #57 of Retro Gamer magazine in my stocking, from my lovely girlfriend
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