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Welcome to my website.

My name is Adam Wilson. I’m an embedded electronics engineer by trade, and for the past few years I’ve been collecting, repairing, and restoring vintage computers in my spare time.

I’ve finally got around to creating my own website, in order to document all of my repairs and restorations in an accessible fashion for anyone who may be interested.

Latest from the Blog

1990 Sony Walkman WM-FX10 AM/FM Radio & Cassette Player Repair

My wife has started getting into analogue cassette tapes, after her father gave her his old tape collection – as such, I decided to buy her a Sony Walkman for her birthday this February, so she could listen to them on the move. I ended up buying an apparently “working” 1990 Sony Walkman WM-FX10 on…

1986 Apple Macintosh Plus 1MB Repair & Restoration

I recently got my hands on a 1986 Apple Macintosh Plus 1MB, which came with a keyboard, mouse, and a 1988 Apple 20SC external 20MB SCSI HDD, all in unknown condition. The Macintosh Plus was a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. It was the third model in the Macintosh line, introduced on January 16…

1982 Atari 400 Repair & Restoration

Believe it or not, I’m known around my workplace as a bit of a geek, primarily because of the tinkering around with vintage electronics that I do in my spare time – as such, every now and again I get a request from a colleague to take a look at some hardware for them. This…

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