PC

A Socket 7 Upgrade: Moving Beyond the 486

A while back I built a 486-based machine to play with some late 80s / early 90s games, as well…

2 months ago

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…

8 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year ago

486 PC Build

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

1 year 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.…

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…

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