This long weekend I’m cleaning out the basement & playing a game called, “Does it boot?” If it works, this little fella’s coming to the office with me on Monday. Follow for progress. ;)

Actually doesn’t look too bad, just a few cobwebs and a lot of dust. Let’s clean it up and plug it in. 🤞

Okay, there’s power (solid white light on below the shift key) and I think the monitor is working (i.e., I can get bits of green static if I wiggle the input), but so far just this one light. Any thoughts?

Well I’ll be darned. Look what was stuck in the disk drive.

It’s alive!!!!!! We’ll, alive and stuck on this screen. 🤔

As @katrinakatrinka pointed out, that screen was it waiting for a disk. In my defense, it’s been decades. ;)

So, without any further ado, sound up!!!!!! Stay all the way to the end for the good stuff. youtube.com/shorts/bTio6COphzI

I’m just a Gen Xer playing computer games in my basement. 🤟 I can’t believe this really worked. They really don’t build them like the used to. “Does it boot?” Yes, yes it does!

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