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 […]
I needed to document this repair just to recover my sanity. This ZX Spectrum+ was purchased right at the beginning of my Retro collecting adventure back in 2018. However back then there were lots of old retros being sold and I purchased many Commodore 64’s , Dragon 32’s, BBC micros, Oric’s and various others as […]
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 […]
Commodore 64 Classic Original Breadbin Boxed Working w/ Extras An original classic family retro computer from the 80’s. Excellent collectors example. Includes: Commodore 64 Classic Original Breadbin Boxed 8GB SD card and cartridge with hundreds of games and utilities with inbuilt fastload Some original cassette games for the ultimate authentic retro experience Original box and […]
The 8256 only has 256k of memory, one single side floppy drive which was faulty on mine and so was the first order of business. The following describes the steps I went through to get it working just as I wanted with extra memory, a gotek drive which coexists with the existing 3 inch floppy […]
An Original Apple Powerbook 145B from 1993 This laptop is in excellent condition for its age and a rare example. A perfect collectors item as these do not come up often. The screen has been recapped with modern non leaking capacitors and is pin sharp with no fade. Floppy drive has been cleaned and renovated, formats, reads and […]
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 […]
Normally I would brighten stained computers by just placing them in the sun for a few hours which was working quite well in April 2022 then May arrived with day after day of clouds and rain. So I thought I would make a Retrobrite box for those rainy days and here it is I simply […]