great work! congrats. I hope it lasts many more years

MarmotaArmy wrote on Yesterday, 18:48:

great work! congrats. I hope it lasts many more years

Thank you!
I hope it does. The weak spot I think will be the hard drive, I have one back-up drive if (when) the current one fails.
I've played a couple of hours Today and it's quite enjoyable.

Perfectly timed with the 45-year anniversary of the IBM PC yesterday. Was that deliberate? 😄

digger wrote on 47 minutes ago:

Perfectly timed with the 45-year anniversary of the IBM PC yesterday. Was that deliberate? 😄

Oh gosh! Not at all!
I got the sound card bracket a couple of days ago and had time yesterday assemble it, bring down the monitor and set it up again.
To celebrate this the "proper way", I copy the article in a .txt and read it on the IBM XT in a few minutes! 😁

JAKra85 wrote on 15 minutes ago:

Oh gosh! Not at all! I got the sound card bracket a couple of days ago and had time yesterday assemble it, bring down the monito […]
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digger wrote on 47 minutes ago:

Perfectly timed with the 45-year anniversary of the IBM PC yesterday. Was that deliberate? 😄

Oh gosh! Not at all!
I got the sound card bracket a couple of days ago and had time yesterday assemble it, bring down the monitor and set it up again.
To celebrate this the "proper way", I copy the article in a .txt and read it on the IBM XT in a few minutes! 😁

That's an awesome plan. Enjoy!

Do you want to try something even cooler? Run os8088 on it, and read the article in a Markdown file in the included editor. 😍