Do you REALLY need to Eject Your USB Drives? | Shop Talk EP 104

What did Dave bring home from VCF Montréal? A $20 Radio Shack TRS-80 acoustic coupler modem and an EconoPET replacement motherboard. Dave shows how a telephone handset fit into the modem, and Glen and Dave remember learning to program on Commodore SuperPETs.

Then it’s over to your questions. How much can you replace in a PDP-11 before it stops being the same machine? What does Dave’s Robotron AI see while it plays? And what actually happens when you pull a USB drive without ejecting it? We also share two viewer tips for continuing a chat that’s hit its limit and discuss why generator backfeed protection matters.

Have a MUPET controller or know where Dave can find one? Let us know in the comments. He’s looking for one to share a disk drive among his PETs.