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Awesome - I used to have the disk drive and drawing pad ("KoalaPad")[0], but, unfortunately, those were thrown out a long time ago.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KoalaPad

Oooh, leaf-spring or micro-switch Competition Pro?

I loved my leaf-spring one, it was built like a tank. When friends destroyed their Quickshot IIs in Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, mine just kept on trucking :)

Its leaf-spring, personally I find them a bit unresponsive compared to the micro-switch models.

Oh, sure, I probably pulled that thing apart several times over its life-span, but I loathed the clicking and lack of reliability of the micro-switch based sticks.

You've really looked after those computers — nice job :)

Is that a PC XT? Did they come with a 3.5" drive or did you replace the older ones?

Its a PC AT, which came with a 5.25" drive, but I swapped it for a smaller one for the sake of practicality.

In practise I transfer all software and data to it over FTP.

http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/