Retro

Teletext on a BBC computer in 2024

Before the Internet, if we wanted to read up-to-the-minute news or weather, we had Teletext. It is a low-bandwidth text…

10 months ago

Valiant Turtle: Retro Restoration Part 3

I thought part 2 was the end of my restoration journey for Tobias the Valiant Turtle. But there is more…

10 months ago

BBC Master 128 #2: Retro Restoration

I was recently chatting to a local friend about the course I'm setting up to teach local kids BBC BASIC…

10 months ago

BBC Micro: Restoration part 1

In a previous post, I showed the two BBC Micro computers I had acquired. I decided to work on the…

11 months ago

Retro computer diagnostic tools

In the past, I've discussed the soldering gear and general tools I've used, but I haven't really summarized the diagnostic…

11 months ago

Atari 800XL: Restoration Part 2

I previously left my Atari 800XL with a faulty GTIA chip which completely broke the video output from the Atari.…

11 months ago

BBC Micros: Pre-restoration discovery

In 2024 I'm going to be setting up a small class to teach local children how to program the same…

11 months ago

Atari 800XL: Restoration Part 1

When I was a teenager, one of the last 8bit machines I acquired was an Atari XEGS. This was a…

12 months ago

Acorn Atom: Virtual Tapes

Now that the Acorn Atom is working, I wanted to be able to load software on it. One solution many…

12 months ago

Acorn Atom: Restoration Part 3

Pretty much everything was working in my previous post. But I was struggling with the tape interface and there are…

1 year ago