The way ELECTRONICS used to be!
A Restoration Journey Through Hardware Hiccups, Modern Tweaks, and Pure Nostalgia Every vintage computer collector has that one machine languishing under a dust cover, waiting for its turn on the …
Amiga 2000HD: Reviving a Forgotten Workhorse Read More
If you didn’t read the post I added a couple years before this one, be sure to read it first. It describes my initial discovery of the TypeStore systems. http://www.vintagevolts.com/typestore/ …
Digging Into the TypeStore Read More
What is a TypeStore? Well… if you would have done a Google search before this blog initially got posted and got picked up by search engines, you’d be very hard-pressed …
TypeStore Read More
No… this is not about an unusually rare (technically, non-existent) version of a Texas Instruments Silent series of terminal devices, like the Silent 700. It’s about the fact that I …
Silent 2022 Read More
Way back in the 1980s, I enlisted in the US Army. My MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) was 31C, or Single Channel Radio Operator. This MOS was a change from the …
Refurbishing an AN/UGC-74 Read More
I was attending a repair workshop this weekend along with other vintage computer aficionados. These (paid) workshops are typically to provide working space for those who need an area to …
Workshop Weekend Read More
This project started as a need to come up with a solution for my Amiga 1200 that recently suffered floppy disk failure. Although I am able to attach an external …
Installing a Large SSD Drive in a Stock Amiga 1200 Read More
Back in the day… who knew?!? Who knew that one day, the technological devices of the era would have issues with their displays. LCD displays were a welcome advancement over …
Screen Rot… Read More
For quite some time, I was buying devices to allow me to archive the over 1000 floppy disks I have acquired over the decades when collecting vintage computer systems. I …
Archiving Flux Read More
Update (again) – 30 APR 2020: I’m, again, back at it. Something mysteriously fell through with the operation of the RC2019/10 Retrochallenge. The entire contest just went stale with no …
Retrochallenge R̶C̶2̶0̶1̶8̶/̶0̶9̶ R̶C̶2̶0̶1̶9̶/̶1̶0̶ RC2020/04 Read More