PC

Vintage Speed Demon: Fixing an ARK1000VL Graphics Card

According to some, the ARK1000VL is considered the fastest VLB graphics card chip you can get. I recently repaired several…

5 months ago

Repair of a Trident VLB Graphics Card

Hot on the heels of repairing the Cirrus Logic VLB card, I acquired a dead Trident TGUI9440 based VLB graphics…

10 months ago

Repair of a Cirrus Logic VLB Graphics Card

Fellow vintage computer collector, Gammitin, challenged me to fix four VLB graphics cards, as well as upgrade the RAM on…

10 months ago

Upgrading my 486 PC Build

You may remember my recent 486 PC build, I enjoyed doing it, but I had several issues with it. It…

10 months ago

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…

11 months ago

486 PC Build

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

11 months 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.…

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…

3 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…

3 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…)

3 years ago