Posts in Vintage Computers

VIC-20 Fix and clean-up notes

Fixing and cleaning a VIC-20 that needs some love to bring it back to action!

NEC 8201A – CMOS Battery

Add a nicer battery to a NEC 8201A portable computer and sort the bad design decision made[…]

Oddball tech – A tiny computer with big burn-in

A little computer with deep burn-in and hidden surprises!

Virtual Tape Recorder for retro computers

A virtual tape recorder with remote function on a PC? Sounds good!

SRAM 4164 Testing

Got a bunch of 4164 chips and an Arduino Nano? Why not get them together for some

Apple II Disk Drive Repair

Review and repair (hopefully) a pair of Apple II drives and a slightly squashed controller board. Taking[…]

Dell Tower T5400 of ultimate power!

Introducing the Dell T5400 Tower of Power! A beast of a machine, once used for development but[…]

68k Industrial computer archology

A large 68000 CPU machine. What is it for? Is there any life in there?

Apple II Unidisk illness

My lovely Unidisk is broken… Lets take a look

Mac Plus Keyboard repair – Pt2

Mac Plus keyboard in the wars again. Can it be recovered back to something approaching usable?