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  • Weird Amiga 1200 Issue Repaired

    Weird Amiga 1200 Issue Repaired

    In the last week, an Amiga 1200 was dropped off at my workshop to be repaired. That isn’t unusual, but the faults were unusual enough that I thought I should blog about them. Read more

  • Modifying a PC floppy drive to work inside an Amiga 500

    Modifying a PC floppy drive to work inside an Amiga 500

    My Amiga 500 Plus no longer has an internal floppy drive. It was given away months ago to help another Amiga user. I needed to replace it, and I realised that I’m completely out of Amiga floppy drives. So, I decided to see if I could convert a PC one to fit. Here is the… Read more

  • Yet Another BBC Micro: Retro Restoration

    Yet Another BBC Micro: Retro Restoration

    In the town I live, there is a small auction house which every week puts up their list of items for the next auction on their website. I check this every week just in case there are any computers in there that I would be interested in. This week there was, so I put in… Read more

  • More BBC Micro Repairs

    More BBC Micro Repairs

    Last weekend I started the first of a four-part course teaching children to program on the BBC Micro. Of course, when dealing with 40 year old hardware being used all day, something could go wrong. A couple of minor things did fail, so this post is about what happened and how I solved them. Read more

  • Acorn Electron: Retro Restoration

    Acorn Electron: Retro Restoration

    When I was much younger, I had a BBC Micro computer at home. A few friends had Acorn Electrons, and I saw them at the time as the inferior sibling to the BBC Micro. Roll on to today, and I have a BBC Micro or two, which was originally called the Acorn Proton. I also… Read more

  • BBC Micro: Restoration part 3

    BBC Micro: Restoration part 3

    In my previous post, I thought I had both BBCs fully working and almost complete. I cleaned the inside of the bottom half of the case for the white BBC and installed the motherboard again, screwing it back down. This would turn out to be a mistake. Read more