Repairing a vintage Macintosh SE/30
The Macintosh SE/30 is probably the most wanted Compact Macintosh computer due to its various upgrade options, especially the ability to support
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Hardware
HD9800 GBS8200 CGA EGA YUV to VGA Converter Module
In an attempt to display the Amiga 500 15kHz VGA output signal nicely on a my LCD monitor, I bought
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Brother Super PowerNote PN-8500MDSe vintage word processor
In my recent eBay adventure I purchased a Brother Super PowerNote PN-8500MDSe vintage word processor from a local seller. The machine is
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Multi Evolution 500 and Amiga A501 expansion cards on an Amiga 500
I came across a Multi Evolution 500 SCSI controller expansion card on eBay, which was described by the seller as faulty
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Commodore 386SX-LT Laptop
I recently purchased a Commodore 386SX-LT laptop, an old 80386 laptop with 1.6MB of RAM (640KB base memory + 1MB
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Exploring the SIEMENS TC35 SMS GSM Module
Introduction The GSM SIEMENS TC35 is a portable GSM modem module which can communicate directly with the PC or other
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Upgrading the SSD in a mid-2012 Macbook Air
The time has come for me to expand the storage space on my mid-2012 Macbook Air, which comes with only
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eBox 3350MX x86 Compact PC
I have long been looking for a cheap single board computer (SBC) which has similar dimensions to the Raspberry Pi
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AMD Geode LX TR2350 mini x86-compatible motherboard
After my previous experiment with the eBox 3350MX, a mini x86 compact PC, I came across the TR2350, a mini
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Tektronix 1230 Logic Analyzer
Made in the 1980s, the Tektronix 1230 is a general purpose logic analyzer that supports a maximum of 64 channels
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English text to speech on a PIC microcontroller
I have always been a fan of the TTS256 – a tiny but great English text-to-speech IC based on a
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