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This is my day-to-day blog about my work with vintage computer equipment, including additions to my collection and any repairs or restorations I’ve performed.
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…
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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…
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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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Sinclair ZX Spectrum PSU Repairs
This is a very quick post about some Sinclair ZX1400 PSUs that I repaired a while ago, in case it’s of use to anyone. I end up gathering quite a few of these power supplies with various lots, and they usually have an array of weird and (not so) wonderful modifications. The ZX1400 PSU was…
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1959 Kolster Brandes QB20 “Minuet” Bakelite Vacuum Tube Radio Repair & Restoration
A few weeks ago, my mother-in-law spotted a vintage 1959 Kolster Brandes QB20 “Minuet” tube AM/FM radio set in a local charity shop, and – knowing that I have a growing interest in radios – very kindly bought it for me for £10.00 (even though it wasn’t technically for sale, but was being used as…
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1988 Apple 20SC External HDD Repair & Restoration
I recently got my hands on a 1986 Apple Macintosh Plus 1MB, which came with a 1988 Apple 20SC external 20MB SCSI HDD, both in unknown condition. The Apple Hard Disk 20SC (not to be confused with the Apple Macintosh Hard Disk 20) was Apple’s first SCSI based hard drive for the Apple II family…
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Making & Using BlueSCSI SD Card Adapters for Vintage Apple Macintosh Computers
I recently picked up my first compact Apple Macintoshes, a 1991 Mac Classic and a 1992 Mac Classic II, both of which were in good condition but needed repair and refurbishment. Aside from the classic issues of leaky electrolytic capacitors and exploding PRAM batteries, compact Macintoshes often have old-school 40MB/80MB Quantum SCSI 3.5″ mechanical hard…
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1956 Philips 353A Bakelite Vacuum Tube Radio Repair & Restoration
A few months ago I bought my first ever vacuum tube radio, a 1956 Philips 353A bakelite AM/FM set, which is (currently) the oldest item in my collection. I’ve been wanting to get into vintage radio restoration for some time now (after watching YouTube channels such as the excellent Mr Carlson’s Lab), as I find the…
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Making an Audio Input Adapter Cable for a 1950s Vacuum Tube Radio
I recently fixed up my first vacuum tube radio, a 1956 Philips 353A, which now works well and sounds fantastic and is set up in our front room. The AM/FM signal reception in our house is relatively poor, however, and I noticed that this radio has a “Gramophone Pick-Up” input, which is basically just an…
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1987 Commodore 1901 CRT Monitor Repair, Modification, & Restoration
I was recently given a 1980s Commodore 1901 CRT display by a friend, the third Commodore display for my collection (following a 1701 and 1084S-D2). It was in quite good condition physically, though it was missing its front control cover (a common problem with displays of this era) – it also came with a non-standard…
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