Retro

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

Acorn RiscPC #2: Restoration Part 1

Another RiscPC recently hit my saved searches on eBay and given that it had a second slice to it I…

2 years ago

Schneider Euro PC: Restoration Part 4

In my previous post I had everything running to a satisfactory level, but I was still running from a bench…

2 years ago

Schneider Euro PC: Restoration Part 3

Last time I got as far as the Euro PC showing tons of BIOS errors on the screen, which is…

2 years ago

Schneider Euro PC: Restoration Part 2

In my previous post the machine was disassembled and the battery removed. Since then I've been coming back to this…

2 years ago