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<Lord_Nightmare>
does pushing the eject button push the button on the gotek thing?
<Xyz_39808>
cr1901 I've also known dan since he was very active on the Famitracker forums. At some point around, I wanna say 2012, I was made aware of his normal yt channel (as opposed to the 8bit alt) and have also been a fan of that side of his hobbies as well
<andlabs>
danooct1 showed my abortive genesistracker project minimized in a vide once
<cr1901_modern>
Xyz_39808: Yea, I forget that he was big on Famitracker (8bitdanooct1). I found his videos in... spring 2010 or so? It was just before he made his vid on the Compaq portable III
<cr1901_modern>
Didn't reach out to him until I got my PC AT in Dec 2010, because _IIRC_ it came free with a DOS virus and I wanted more info.
* cr1901_modern
still has the original hard drive files on a zip disk
<cr1901_modern>
I would archive it, but since it wasn't my computer, I'd need to remove PII bits
<andlabs>
wait a compaq portable 3?
<andlabs>
not a packard bell somethingorother?
<andlabs>
🤯
<andlabs>
(jk)
<andlabs>
also that zip disk is the only zip disk that the drive would be doing you a favor by click of deathing
<balrog>
looks like it's part of a digital character generator for e.g. TV
<balrog>
nope :(
<andlabs>
@ Lord_Nightmare
<andlabs>
balrog: cool, good finds
<andlabs>
I'll still bid on this to save it from scrapping
<andlabs>
a few days ago I found out all the old dolch network snifferss invading ebay are being sold for the same thing
<andlabs>
whichalso explains the price inflation
<balrog>
ugh
<KitsuWhooa>
I find it odd that people would spend this much money on switches that might not even work
<andlabs>
look I'm sitting on a complaint tweet so it'd be nice to know if the switches are indeed sought after or not
<andlabs>
lol I just noticed the thing is also being sold by a recycler who usually just scrap everything anyway
<cr1901_modern>
I've definitely seen that font before. Anyways, the little I can gather, the company that made Compuvid worked on providing Weatherstars for TWC
<andlabs>
saved the computer
<andlabs>
$63.00 is not too bad I guess
<andlabs>
I'll be sure to open it up
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<andlabs>
so what's a good price for an adlib?
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<Foone>
a real one?
<andlabs>
yes
<andlabs>
apparently
<Foone>
anything south of 100$ is a good deal. 200$ is probably the point at which it's definitely too much, but I'm not sure what point in 100-200$ you decide it's too expensive.