Retro

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

Magneto-Optical Drives

Magneto-Optical is not a fight between mutants from X-Men, but a very reliable drive technology which you may have even…

1 year ago

This alien device is something really cool

In my quest to try out lots of interesting older tech, something really cool popped up for an incredibly low…

2 years ago

Retro addons: Big box o’ SCSI part 3

Previously I tested and failed to get the SyQuest drive working. Now, I have got a lot further... (more…)

2 years 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 addons: Big box o’ SCSI part 1

An oddity popped up recently which I ended up acquiring. An external box with 4 interesting SCSI devices inside and…

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

Retro addons: Cumana Oscar Parallel Port CDROM Drive

I recently wanted to find an easy way to transfer large files to my Archimedes A3010. In particular the data…

2 years ago

Video: 8bit PC Audio With No Sound Card!

In my blog series about restoring the Schneider EuroPC I mentioned that I wanted to test the parallel port using…

2 years ago