Scrapyard find: a Sound Blaster 16 SCSI and other vintage PC hardware

Sound Blaster 16 SCSI card. Still from Bits und Bolts’ video. A trip to a scrapyard has turned up a particularly unusual piece of PC audio [...]

Bringing 1975 thermal printing back to life: CuriousMarc restores two HP 5150A Data Loggers

Still from CuriousMarc’s HP 5150A Data Logger restoration video. In his latest video, CuriousMarc takes us on a fascinating journey back t [...]

A leaky Amiga 1200 puts recap work and meter tweezers on the bench

Chris Edwards examines the Amiga 1200 board. Still from Chris Edwards Restoration’s video. A leaking Amiga 1200 is the focus of Chris Edwa [...]

A Macintosh Classic II recap shows why pad repair is the hard part

Still from Michael Kamprath’s Macintosh Classic II repair video, showing the capacitor and repair wire. A leaking Macintosh Classic II log [...]

MattKC powers a Philips CD-i 450 from USB-C with a custom board

Still from MattKC’s Philips CD-i USB-C conversion video. A Philips CD-i 450 can now run from a USB-C charger in MattKC’s latest hardware [...]

An Amiga mouse that looks and works like a pen

Still from RobSmithDev’s Amiga mouse video. Rob Smith has found an unusual way to move an Amiga pointer: a pen-shaped optical mouse. In a [...]

Ben Eater adds time-setting controls to his breadboard clock

Still from Ben Eater’s breadboard clock video. Ben Eater’s breadboard clock can count and display time, but a practical clock also needs [...]

PicoMEM 2 firmware brings CD-ROM games and multi-card audio together

Sam & Max running from a CD image with PicoMEM 2. Still from Retro Erik’s video. A single ISA expansion card handling both CD-ROM acce [...]

A six-slot Neo Geo MVS becomes a living-room console

Six-slot Neo Geo MVS cartridge bay. Still from Luke Morse’s video. A six-slot Neo Geo MVS board is a spectacular piece of arcade hardware, [...]

A budget speaker switch becomes a bench dummy load for vintage amplifiers

Bench-test dummy load and speaker switch. Still from The Retro Channel. A safe test load can save a vintage amplifier—and the workshop spe [...]
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