it would make a good excuse to skip the trip and stay home like I wanted to do in the first place.

This, LOL. My credulity is inversely proportional to how badly I want to go on this trip.

maybe a bead from a dessicant packet? They’re usually more clear, but can sometimes drift towards brown.

One of my friends had one and they always did the same. I don’t think any computer has ever seen its power intentionally turned off as often as the Commodore 128.

First one I used was an Apple II at school. First I used outside of school was my buddy’s Laser Apple II clone. First one I owned was an Atari XEGS, with the caveat that we didn’t get the disk drive, so all programs had to be typed in when I wasn’t playing Bug Zapper or Missile Command or failing to learn how to play Flight Simulator 2. Still learned a lot of Atari BASIC.

Eventually we got a Tandy RSX with DOS 5.0 and “Tandy Deskmate”

The easy example is to think in terms of chatting with a Christian: Jesus died, but Jesus is not dead.