March 28, 2024March 28, 2024Vintage Computers VIC-20 Fix and clean-up notes Fixing and cleaning a VIC-20 that needs some love to bring it back to action! Read more
February 8, 2024Vintage Computers NEC 8201A – CMOS Battery Add a nicer battery to a NEC 8201A portable computer and sort the bad design decision made when it was new! Read more
January 16, 2024January 16, 2024Vintage Computers Oddball tech – A tiny computer with big burn-in A little computer with deep burn-in and hidden surprises! Read more
January 12, 2024January 16, 2024Sound and Video, Vintage Computers Virtual Tape Recorder for retro computers A virtual tape recorder with remote function on a PC? Sounds good! Read more
December 28, 2023December 28, 2023Test equipment, Vintage Computers SRAM 4164 Testing Got a bunch of 4164 chips and an Arduino Nano? Why not get them together for some testing! Read more
November 29, 2023November 30, 2023Apple II, Vintage Computers Apple II Disk Drive Repair Review and repair (hopefully) a pair of Apple II drives and a slightly squashed controller board. Taking a look at the condition […] Read more
November 16, 2023November 16, 2023Vintage Computers Dell Tower T5400 of ultimate power! Introducing the Dell T5400 Tower of Power! A beast of a machine, once used for development but what of its future? Read more
November 1, 2023November 2, 2023Test equipment, Vintage Computers 68k Industrial computer archology A large 68000 CPU machine. What is it for? Is there any life in there? Read more
October 31, 2023October 31, 2023Vintage Computers Apple II Unidisk illness My lovely Unidisk is broken… Lets take a look Read more
August 11, 2023August 11, 2023Classic Macintosh, Vintage Computers Mac Plus Keyboard repair – Pt2 Mac Plus keyboard in the wars again. Can it be recovered back to something approaching usable? Read more