PC

The Roland MT-32: The Ultimate late-80s Gaming Sound

One of the projects I wanted to do with my new 486 PC was to try out a Roland MT-32…

1 week ago

486 PC Build

A lot of people my age went from the 8bit era to the 16bit era and then PCs. I took…

2 weeks ago

Building my ideal 486 laptop

Over the past few weeks, I've learned far more than I initially wanted to about the Dell Latitude XP series.…

6 months 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

Schneider Euro PC: Restoration Part 6

We are almost complete with this Euro PC restoration after the previous ROM upgrade. Now we need to do some…

2 years ago

Schneider Euro PC: Restoration Part 5

After the magic smoke incident in the last post I decided to replace the capacitors and go from there. (more…)

2 years ago

Schneider Euro PC: Restoration Part 4

In my previous post I had everything running to a satisfactory level, but I was still running from a bench…

2 years ago

Schneider Euro PC: Restoration Part 3

Last time I got as far as the Euro PC showing tons of BIOS errors on the screen, which is…

2 years ago

Schneider Euro PC: Restoration Part 2

In my previous post the machine was disassembled and the battery removed. Since then I've been coming back to this…

2 years ago

Schneider Euro PC: Restoration Part 1

At the end of my keyboard PC blog post I mentioned that I really wanted a Schneider Euro PC. Finally,…

2 years ago