It was relatively cheap so I took a gamble on this Eaca EG-2000 Colour Genie Untested rare piece of retro history. Besides it was something very out of the ordinary. The EG-2000 was released back in 1982 the same year the Commodore 64 , Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Tangerine Oric-1 and Dragon 32 as well a […]
I purchased this Retro PC Canon MD-5501 5.25″ Drive repair and spare as I had recently bought some 5.25″ disks. These drives are 30+ years old so they must be as cheap as chips by now, or so I thought. So I started trawling through ebay and Wow!!. 5.25″ floppy drives are going for crazy […]
Back in the day my first real IT job fresh out of university was working for Hepworth Refractories in Worksop, Nottinghamshire and given a made up, catch all role of Project Enginner. They basically made heat resistant bricks for kilns and furnaces but had lots of aging control equipment and the site spanned 60 acres […]
This Oric-1 repair story begins back in 1983. A time when everyone knows they are the flexible computer system for the future :). The Oric-1 was the first computer I owned back in 1983 that I could actually use. There is an exception. I first owned, but couldn’t use!, a ZX Spectrum 16k for a […]
Back in 2019 I was a bit of a retro rookie but I managed to nab myself a pretty cheap Sinclair QL which I repaired and managed to get working. So I had this perfectly working machine but discovered the 128k was very limiting and most of the microdrive cartridges I had wouldn’t work so […]
This was purchased from a family whose father had used the QL for his business in the 1980’s. The computer quickly outlived its usefullness and, as many Sinclair QL’s before it, was then stored in the loft and left unused for decades. The sale was described as turns on but unable to test. I didn’t […]
I finally received my much sought after Timex TS2068 or so I thought. I wasn’t sure if it was American made which requires a 15v supply or Portuguese which requires 9v supply so had to do some investigation. There was no psu supplied just the unit so I first had to figure the polarity of […]
Amiga 500 Boxed Pistorm 128Mb Ram 4Gb HDisk HDMI Completely rennovated and fully tested. This particular Amiga has hidden talents sporting a pistorm accelerator with HDMI output. An excellent clean and tidy example with no discoloration. Thanks to the pistorm, this Amiga is fast, blindingly fast with speeds in excess of an Amiga 4000. Very […]
With the Commodore Combined SD2IEC Fastload Cartridge you get all the benefits of modern using a SD card with the blistering load times of Fastload. The cartridge ,available here, also provides convenient single character commands and built in disk tools. There is no extra boards to install unlike the PI1541. This is just plug and […]
Purchased untested. Its a risk but will be fun to bring it back to life. The Atari 400 was first sold in 1979 so this could be a 40 years old!!! It arrived with no power supply and a little dirty. I’ve given it a quick clean so I can at least work on it. […]