Tag: Retro Computing

I’ve already had one crack at it, so it’s time to take another. This Amiga 500 Plus has suffered some battery damage. On the face […]

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 – […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]