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2026-08-01 22:18 UTC

The back of the machine looks... decent. I seem to be missing the front and back screws for the main side panel. Current me has a lot of reasons today to kick past me square in the crotch. See my prior post about my A500 mysteries. There are two missing slot covers. One I know is from the Picasso II board I regret "loaning" to someone 20+ years ago. The other empty slot is a mystery right now. Nothing I can recall would be missing. Note the ancient ethernet card. Niles is skeptical.

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@halfpress@mastodon.halfpress.com 2026-08-01 22:27

The two hard drives I had in this beast were still there, but not screwed down or attached to what looks to be a roughly 200 ft long SCSI cable. The drives are looking pretty filthy. Fortunately, I know why they are detached. Probably 25 or more years ago, I removed them, attached them to one of my Linux PCs with an Adaptec card and imaged the drives. I've had them bootable in emulators ever since. BlueSCSI will end up hosting those images soon.

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