April 22nd, 2013 by Benj Edwards
The carpet pretty much looked like that even when it was clean.
Here's a retro-flavored Polaroid instant photo I took of my bedroom floor some point in 1995. I was 13 or 14 at the time, and I had just received a stack of Beatles CDs (upper center-left) the previous Christmas — along with my first CD player, integrated in boombox form, which can be seen seen in the upper right portion of the photo.
But I'm not posting this photo because of Beatles CDs. On the floor sit a number of retrogaming consoles and accessories: to the left is an Atari 5200 console, and in the lower right you can see a ColecoVision and the corner of an Intellivision. There are also a few Atari joysticks, a copy of Yars' Revenge for the 2600, and three copies of Intellivision Donkey Kong.
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Tags: Retro Scan, snapshots, Benjs Room, Atari 2600, Intellivision, ColecoVision, Expansion Module 1, Yars Revenge, Donkey Kong, repair, Polaroid, 1995
December 5th, 2012 by Benj Edwards
A nice place to put a Mac Plus, I think. (December 2012)
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Tags: Snapshots, Mac Plus, Macintosh, Apple, Desk
August 24th, 2012 by Benj Edwards
Expert Apple IIc repair by Ulaf Silchov (November 2007)
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Tags: Snapshots, Ulaf Silchov, Apple, Apple IIc, workbench
May 17th, 2011 by Benj Edwards
California Games at the Kitchen Table (October 2010)
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Tags: Snapshots, Atari, Atari ST, kitchen, kitchen table, Epyx 500XJ