Tim's Retro Corner

Commodore SFD 1001 Drive Teardown and Repair

The Commodore SFD 1001 floppy disk drive is an interesting beast. It looks like a 1541, but it’s not. To start with, it’s an IEEE-488 […]

The Amiga 500+ that came from Matt’s office (see last week’s video) did not power on. Actually that’s not strictly true; it did power on, […]

My mate Matt has (had!) some old retro computing gear hidden somewhere in his old office. When he asked if I wanted to help clearing […]

I replaced the big, heavy linear power supply in my Commodore 1571 disk drive with a tiny Mean Well RD-35A switching power supply. The Mean […]

For this memory upgrade you need an Amiga 500 with a revision 6A motherboard, and an 8372A Fat Agnus chip, plus four 256Kx4 DRAMs (81C4256A […]

Have you bought an old computer, and when you opened the box you found a horrible grimy mess? Worried about what’s lurking between the keys […]

The Amiga 500 has an external “brick” power supply. And while there have been variations over the years, most of them contain a large heavy […]

This broken Amiga 500 I bought from eBay was described as “the power light comes on.” And indeed that description was accurate. Last time we […]

Teardown and Discovery. I bought a parts & spares Amiga 500 from eBay. It was described as “the power light comes on.” Sometimes that’s just […]

It’s Friday 8th April (at least it was at the time I originally wrote this) and the A500 Mini is finally released in the UK. […]