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Modifying a PC floppy drive to work inside an Amiga 500

My Amiga 500 Plus no longer has an internal floppy drive. It was given away months ago to help another…

8 months ago

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…

8 months ago

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,…

9 months ago

Acorn Electron: Retro Restoration

When I was much younger, I had a BBC Micro computer at home. A few friends had Acorn Electrons, and…

10 months ago

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…

10 months ago

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…

10 months ago

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.…

11 months ago

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…

11 months ago

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…

11 months ago

BBC Master 128 #2: Retro Restoration

I was recently chatting to a local friend about the course I'm setting up to teach local kids BBC BASIC…

12 months ago