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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
2023-06-03
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
2023-05-30
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
2023-05-27
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
2023-05-25
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
2023-05-23
Video: 8bit PC Audio With No Sound Card!
In my blog series about restoring the Schneider EuroPC I mentioned that I wanted to test the parallel port using something special. The special thing was an LPT DAC to play MOD files. The first supplier for this let me down, but the second one has arrived, so here is a video using it! Read more
2023-05-21

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