March 18th, 2015:

	My Tandy 1500HD laptop was thrown out yesterday.  Couldn't get it 
to boot from floppy, and there was no realistic way of passing a boot 
image to the machine.  I no longer have the time or inclination to work on 
it, so it got the boot.

	I tested my Tandy Coco 3, a victim of a basement flood a couple of 
years ago, and I was pleasantly surprised to find it still worked.  
Cartridge port, joystick ports, etc all worked.  I played a round of 
Robocop (and an even longer round of Rampage!) just to ensure all was well 
with the system.  I've decided to keep the Coco 3 for the time being... I 
have an uninstalled 512K upgrade that needs a new capacitor, which will be 
one of the first things I fix once we've moved.

	I miss playing with the Coco 3.  Several years ago I set about 
upgrading the thing - bought the aforementioned 512K upgrade, an 
RGB-to-Commodore 1084 monitor adapter, floppy drives, Deluxe RS-232 Pak, 
and Multi-Pak Interface - and was well on my way to making this thing a 
killer machine.  I even bought Tandy's OS9 Level 2 package on eBay so I 
could work in a Unix-like multitasking environment!  (This was before I'd 
learned of NitrOS9, the still-current open-source version of 
Tandy/Microware's OS9)

	Life, however, intervened and I lost interest in the project 
(focusing instead on my now-dead Amiga 2000).  This proved to be a dumb 
move on my part, as many of the upgrades I wanted are now no longer 
available.  No modern SCSI controller, no modern IDE/CF controller, and no 
RealTime Clock...  Unless Cloud 9 still have a few for sale (when funds 
permit), I'll have to scour eBay in order to finally fulfill my plan.

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	In other news, I finally got around to setting up MAME on my Linux 
laptop... was finally able to play Gorf, Bomb Jack, and Rygar on the go!  
Now that I have MAME running, I'll have to download a few of my old 
favourite quarter munchers like Moon Patrol, Shinobi, Halley's Comet, and 
Steel Gunner 2.