Acorn Archimedes A5000: Restoration Part 1

2 years ago

I recently acquired a new Archimedes for my collection, the A5000. It was bought mostly working, but needs a little…

Magneto-Optical Drives

2 years ago

Magneto-Optical is not a fight between mutants from X-Men, but a very reliable drive technology which you may have even…

This alien device is something really cool

2 years ago

In my quest to try out lots of interesting older tech, something really cool popped up for an incredibly low…

Retro addons: Big box o’ SCSI part 3

2 years ago

Previously I tested and failed to get the SyQuest drive working. Now, I have got a lot further... (more…)

Retro addons: Big box o’ SCSI part 2

2 years ago

In my previous post I mainly focused on the Cumana proTeus drive. Today I'm going to turn my attention to…

Retro addons: Big box o’ SCSI part 1

2 years ago

An oddity popped up recently which I ended up acquiring. An external box with 4 interesting SCSI devices inside and…

Retro Restoration: Acorn JP150 Bubble Jet Printer

2 years ago

A couple of years ago I acquired an Acorn A3010 which I restored in this blog. Along with the machine…

Acorn RiscPC #2: Restoration Part 2

2 years ago

With the battery gone, it is time to test the PSU, boards and drives for this RiscPC. Got fingers and…

Acorn Archimedes: Running PC Software

2 years ago

It is the early to mid 90s and you just forked out for an Acorn Archimedes or RiscPC machine, which…

Retro addons: Cumana Oscar Parallel Port CDROM Drive

2 years ago

I recently wanted to find an easy way to transfer large files to my Archimedes A3010. In particular the data…