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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
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
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
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
Teletext on a BBC computer in 2024
Before the Internet, if we wanted to read up-to-the-minute news or weather, we had Teletext. It is a low-bandwidth text standard that used to be sent via the hidden black border on TV signals. BBC Micro and Master computers had a Teletext character generator chip and mode, which they actually booted into by default. Therefore,… Read more
Valiant Turtle: Retro Restoration Part 3
I thought part 2 was the end of my restoration journey for Tobias the Valiant Turtle. But there is more that has happened since. So, let’s get to it. Read more
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