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  • Retro addons: Big box o’ SCSI part 2

    Retro addons: Big box o’ SCSI part 2

    In my previous post I mainly focused on the Cumana proTeus drive. Today I’m going to turn my attention to the SyQuest 88MB drive. Read more

  • Retro addons: Big box o’ SCSI part 1

    Retro addons: Big box o’ SCSI part 1

    An oddity popped up recently which I ended up acquiring. An external box with 4 interesting SCSI devices inside and a SCSI card for a RiscPC. Time to dive in and see what we have… Read more

  • Retro Restoration: Acorn JP150 Bubble Jet Printer

    Retro Restoration: Acorn JP150 Bubble Jet Printer

    A couple of years ago I acquired an Acorn A3010 which I restored in this blog. Along with the machine came an Acorn branded monitor (which I have donated) and an Acorn JP150 printer. Today I have finally turned my attention to this printer. Read more

  • Acorn RiscPC #2: Restoration Part 2

    Acorn RiscPC #2: Restoration Part 2

    With the battery gone, it is time to test the PSU, boards and drives for this RiscPC. Got fingers and everything else crossed? Here goes! Read more

  • Acorn Archimedes: Running PC Software

    Acorn Archimedes: Running PC Software

    It is the early to mid 90s and you just forked out for an Acorn Archimedes or RiscPC machine, which was arguably a superior choice over PCs at the time. But you have some old DOS software you want to run. What do you do? It turns out that there were a few ways of… Read more

  • Retro addons: Cumana Oscar Parallel Port CDROM Drive

    Retro addons: Cumana Oscar Parallel Port CDROM Drive

    I recently wanted to find an easy way to transfer large files to my Archimedes A3010. In particular the data was on a CDROM image. I therefore wondered if there was a CDROM drive I could use with it. This led me to the Cumana Oscar drive. A drive which appears to be somewhat rare. Read more