Recently I bought a CBM 8050 dual floppy drive from eBay. It came at a good price, but it was listed as “untested. for spares […]
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PIEEE-488 PART2: The PCB
In the first update to my PIEEE-488 PET dual drive project I take the breadboard design from part 1 and convert it into a PCB. […]
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PIEEE-488
The PIEEE-488 is a Raspberry PI hat designed to emulate the old style dual floppy drives for the Commodore PET. At least that’s the idea. […]
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Let’s make a PCB!
What do you do when you can no longer get that PCB you desperately need? You make one! Thanks to https://www.pcbway.com for sponsoring this video, […]
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Commodore SFD 1001 Floppy Teardown and Repair Part 3
Last time we powered on the SFD 1001 floppy drive and discovered that it didn’t work. At least it did work a little bit – […]
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Commodore SFD 1001 Floppy Teardown and Repair Part 2
In this video we continue the floppy drive repair that we started last week. The SFD 1001 is an interesting drive. It was one of […]
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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 […]
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MiniPET Debug
The MiniPET 40/80 is built, we plug it in, and . . . . nothing. It doesn’t work. There’s a short on the board in […]
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MiniPET Make Part 2
The second part of this MiniPet 40/80 Make focuses on the keyboard and the ICs. The keyboard is a “chiclet” style affair, that’s very much […]
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MiniPET Make Part 1
In this episode I’m going to make a miniPET. Last time we unboxed the MiniPET kit computer from Tynemouth Software and The Future Was 8-Bit. […]
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