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Repairing an Amiga Roctec RF332C Floppy Drive
In a recent Amiga 500 Plus haul I managed to obtain a boxed Roctec RF332C external floppy drive, it even can with the original invoice and receipt! It was dirty like everything else, but more importantly it was faulty. Listening to it running the head was moving but it didn’t sound like the drive was… Read more
Restoring an Amiga 500 Plus, part 3
We left part 2 of this series with several problems still to solve. Progress has been made so here is another report! Read more
Restoring an Amiga 500 Plus, part 2
In part 1 I took a quick dive into what I had to work with. Now I’m working on the actual restoration. Read more
Restoring a BBC Master 128, part 2
In part 1 of this series we had the machine mostly working but it needed a bit of a cleanup and some of the keyboard wasn’t functioning. With this post things have moved on a bit. Read more
Restoring an Amiga 500 Plus, part 1
This evening I managed to score an Amiga 500 Plus with so much software and accessories that I struggled to carry it to the car. It is going to need a lot of cleaning and restoring but that is all part of the fun! Read more
Restoring a BBC Master 128, part 1
The BBC Microcomputer holds a very special place in my heart. I was lucky enough to have access to a BBC model B at home as a child. Thanks to magazines and books at the time I learnt to program BBC BASIC (and a little ASM) and that eventually led to a career in software… Read more
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