Workshop mode:

Yep, control codes work. The first 128 entries of the ASCII table work, though the first ~30 are mostly useless on modern computers other than backspace, escape, maybe 1 or 2 others?

These were not plugs that were used a lot, with things being unplugged/plugged. They sit running fish tank filters, lamps in the kids room, etc, and have only been unplugged maybe 2-3 times ever, otherwise just sitting there tucked away doing their thing.

The plug was "rattling" inside, so I pulled it apart and all these pieces fell out. Internally the plastic pieces that hold the 240V prongs in place had all snapped off, leaving the prongs "floating around" with nothing else fixing them in place. These were barely used, just sitting running lamps.

Harddrive inside is a Seagate ST-238R with a whopping 32Mb of storage space.

The sticker on the bottom of the keyboard. It says it was made in Taiwan, and all the chips inside say Made in Malaysia. No mention anywhere of this brand ever selling desktop PCs though, just keyboards and some laptops.

Now in a tiny little 3D printed case.

Over the last few days we converted the original high/low single-switch toggle shifter to a 2-switch sequential shifter so it works in modern racing games. Getting the mechanism working was a much bigger job than expected, but we finally got the right springs and switch-angles and everything sorted.

We got the firmware sorted and all the inputs working yesterday, so now just need to finish fixing the broken gearing in the old steering system and we should be able to do some proper testing.

I reckon a red Civetta Bolide in #BeamNG should suit the cabinet pretty well for a first official drive.

Just finished watching the video earlier, then spent the next hour with my 10yr old messing around in the demo. We had a load of fun. I think there's definitely potential there for a little game with the growing-snowball and chasing or being chased by penguins.