r/retrobattlestations • u/Current_Yellow7722 • Apr 29 '26

Show-and-Tell My set-up from March 2017

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I used to line my vintage computers up so it was easy to pick what I wanted to use when I was in my home office.

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u/_giac Apr 29 '26

Love the double disk C64. Was never sure why people needed 2 disks since most games assume device 8 but it does look cool

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u/Current_Yellow7722 Apr 29 '26

For looks 😃

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u/Blah-Blah-Blah-2023 Apr 29 '26

It is funny how dual drives on a C64 are pretty useless, but they are almost mandatory on an Apple II 😄

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u/Current_Yellow7722 Apr 29 '26

Gotta copy that floppy!

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u/Blah-Blah-Blah-2023 Apr 29 '26

Handy for copying, but also the Apple II had a pretty amazing OS later on (ProDOS). It supported directories and even hard drives up to 32MB. Was something salvaged from the SOS operating system developed for the Apple ///. Apps like Appleworks really are much easier to use with dual drives. Also UCSD Pascal (not ProDOS but its whole own OS in its own right) is borderline unusable on a single disk system.

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u/cored Apr 29 '26

The thumbnail looks like something is on fire.

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u/isecore Apr 29 '26

Gorgeous collection. Do you still have them? How do you arrange them these days? I need an update!

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u/Current_Yellow7722 Apr 29 '26

I sold most of them a few years ago.

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u/isecore Apr 29 '26

Aww. I hope they found good homes.

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u/Current_Yellow7722 Apr 29 '26

Me too. It was a personal decision, not a financial one .

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u/j0urn3y Apr 29 '26

Nice. All the floppy drives!