Acorn

Acorn Archimedes A5000: Restoration Part 1

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

2 years ago

Retro addons: Big box o’ SCSI part 3

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

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago

Acorn Archimedes A3000: Restoration Part 4

After a lot of work I did in parallel for my previous post, almost everything is done. Now we need…

2 years ago

Acorn Archimedes A3000: Restoration Part 3

I last left this machine in a state where it boots RISC OS 3.11 when using a bench power supply,…

2 years ago

Acorn Archimedes A3000: Restoration Part 2

In the first post of this series I removed the leaky battery and cleaned up underneath. Now it is time…

2 years ago