Archimedes

Archiving a copy protected disk

I recently received a rare floppy disk for the Acorn Archimedes, one I cannot find archived anywhere. My concern is…

11 months ago

Acorn Archimedes A5000: Restoration Part 3

Last time we were at a point where things were mostly working, but there was more work to do on…

1 year ago

Acorn Archimedes A5000: Restoration Part 2

In my previous post I managed to get the A5000 to reliably boot. But due to battery damage it cannot…

1 year ago

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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year ago

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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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