This article covers all three of the 3.5″ external floppy drives produced by Commodore for the Amiga line of computers.| Oldcomputr.com
A few years ago, I experienced a water leak in my basement after several consecutive days of heavy rain. To prevent the moisture from damaging them, I brought a couple of items home. One of these i…| Oldcomputr.com
Old computers from the 70s and 80s to today| Oldcomputr.com
As I’m now short on space for all my retro stuff, I’m focusing on maintaining and repairing what I already have or looking for small items. I recently bought a pair of non-working Ninte…| Oldcomputr.com
This console, with a few games, cost me 50,000 Lire in 1998 (before the Euro), which is about 36€ or 41$ today. At that time there were a few classified magazines: in the beginning you had to pay f…| Oldcomputr.com
I was familiar with a couple of variants of this console: the original Japanese PC Engine from 1987 and the American version from 1989 called TurboGrafx-16. I have the version intended for the Euro…| Oldcomputr.com
I received the two computers as a gift from Enrico S. in 2011. The inspiration for this article came from a message I received from the contact form:| Oldcomputr.com
I have a lot of non working Macintosh computers, and they’ve been sitting on the shelves of my lab room and cellar for too much time; since I’m out of space for “new” computers at the moment, I decided that I must focus on repairing what I got. I’ve started with a pile of different […]| Oldcomputr.com
Last December a friend of mine came back from the UK for a vacation and brought me this NES, with a few cartridges, as a gift. When I saw Zelda and Zelda II I told him that those could sell for a n…| Oldcomputr.com
Before Apple had its own stores, it forced all its network of authorised service providers to keep a minimum stock of spare parts. A few years ago (well… probably a decade) I got some leftove…| Oldcomputr.com
My first computer back in 1984 was the 48K version of the original Sinclair ZX Spectrum; one year later we sold it to my cousin and bought a Commodore 128 – but that’s for another post.| Oldcomputr.com
AKA Thomson MO6 I recently bought this computer at the local flea market. I still wonder why Olivetti put that thing on the market when the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum were selling like h…| Oldcomputr.com