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Yet Another BBC Micro: Retro Restoration
In the town I live, there is a small auction house which every week puts up their list of items for the next auction on their website. I check this every week just in case there are any computers in there that I would be interested in. This week there was, so I put in… Read more
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More BBC Micro Repairs
Last weekend I started the first of a four-part course teaching children to program on the BBC Micro. Of course, when dealing with 40 year old hardware being used all day, something could go wrong. A couple of minor things did fail, so this post is about what happened and how I solved them. Read more
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Acorn Electron: Retro Restoration
When I was much younger, I had a BBC Micro computer at home. A few friends had Acorn Electrons, and I saw them at the time as the inferior sibling to the BBC Micro. Roll on to today, and I have a BBC Micro or two, which was originally called the Acorn Proton. I also… Read more
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BBC Micro: Restoration part 3
In my previous post, I thought I had both BBCs fully working and almost complete. I cleaned the inside of the bottom half of the case for the white BBC and installed the motherboard again, screwing it back down. This would turn out to be a mistake. Read more
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Acorn ANF03 Data Recorder: Retro Restoration
For BBC Micro owners in the 1980s, a disk drive and DFS upgrade was often financially out of reach, sometimes costing nearly as much as the computer itself. This was the case for me as a child, instead we had the ANF03 Data Recorder to use cassette tapes instead. Read more
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BBC Micro: Restoration part 2
Following on from my previous BBC Micro restoration post, I figured I should take a look at BBC Micro #2. Let’s see where we are at. Read more
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