What Happened! It was a good day. Then I turned on my Apple II Europlus, which by the way was working perfectly, and instead of the usual boot up screen got a bunch of corrupted characters. No beep just a strange buzzing. So begins my first Apple II repair. Troubleshooting After reseating every chip on […]
I purchased this from Ebay as spares repairs expecting it to rattle alot and probably to be completely unresponsive and unrepairable but it was very cheap so worth a go. I was expecting it to be delivered by courier but it was graciously deliveryed by hand from 100 miles away!. Something tells me it is […]
This was purchased from a family whose father had used the QL for his business in the 1980’s. The computer quickly outlived its usefullness and, as many Sinclair QL’s before it, was then stored in the loft and left unused for decades. The sale was described as turns on but unable to test. I didn’t […]
Spectrum +2B with internal IDE Interface The Spectrum is a great machine but loading games takes upwards of 10 minutes and even on a +3 machine with a disk drive still takes minutes and thats if the disks still work after 30 plus years of use. I therefore decided to build something to improve the […]
