2012 – A Year in “Preview”
Last year, 2012, was a banner year for the Vintage Volts website simply because I’ve posted more articles and pod/video casts than I did since I first started the blog. …
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My Retrochallenge consists of a living history of online communications. I am teaching my 14 year old Son how I used to get online back in the day. I have …
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Archiving Dozens of Floppies
A little over a year ago, I bought a useful hardware adapter which makes the transfer of Commodore 8-bit floppy disks seem like an elementary task. In the past, I …
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Finally found a replacement backglass!
For those following this blog, you may have seen my writeup on the first pinball machine I ever purchased… a Williams Smarty, which was in “less than perfect condition” to …
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Timeline Arcade – Keeping the memories alive!
As people get older, nostalgia tends to creep up on many of them, thus attempting to vividly remember what it is that they did when they were younger. Most of …
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Pinball Collection – 1979 Stern Trident
I picked up this interesting gem from a local Craigslist ad in March of 2009. As with most older pinball machines, it had it’s share of quirks. It was the …
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Pinball Collection – 1968 Williams Smarty
This is the first blog entry in my Pinball Collection series of posts. In these blog entries, I describe one of the pinball machines in my collection, along with a …
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The Magnavox D8443 “Boombox”
Back in 1985, during my first full year in the U.S. Army, I walked into a rather modest department store in the great town of Killeen, TX and bought a …
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My Visit to the National Pinball Museum
On August 11, 2012, my family and I decided to take a trip to Baltimore to see the National Pinball Museum located at 608 Water St., Baltimore, MD. We enjoy …
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My 2012 RetroChallenge Entry – UPDATE
UPDATE!!! – MAJOR FAIL!!! I admit it. I simply could not get my project done in the time allotted. Spare time is precious in my household these days. With work, …
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