Restoration

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 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 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 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…

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

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

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

Acorn Archimedes A3000: Restoration Part 1

After restoring an Acorn Archimedes A3010 and a Risc PC, I really wanted to try my hand at the A3000.…

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