New Year’s Resolution 2026
Looking back at my past blog posts, I’ve realized something troubling: my output is about as sparse as a 1980s home computer with 2K of RAM. It’s not that I …
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Amiga 2000HD: Reviving a Forgotten Workhorse
A Restoration Journey Through Hardware Hiccups, Modern Tweaks, and Pure Nostalgia Every vintage computer collector has that one machine languishing under a dust cover, waiting for its turn on the …
Digging Into the TypeStore
If you didn’t read the post I added a couple years before this one, be sure to read it first. It describes my initial discovery of the TypeStore systems. http://www.vintagevolts.com/typestore/ …
TypeStore
What is a TypeStore? Well… if you would have done a Google search before this blog initially got posted and got picked up by search engines, you’d be very hard-pressed …
Silent 2022
No… this is not about an unusually rare (technically, non-existent) version of a Texas Instruments Silent series of terminal devices, like the Silent 700. It’s about the fact that I …
Refurbishing an AN/UGC-74
Way back in the 1980s, I enlisted in the US Army. My MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) was 31C, or Single Channel Radio Operator. This MOS was a change from the …
Workshop Weekend
I was attending a repair workshop this weekend along with other vintage computer aficionados. These (paid) workshops are typically to provide working space for those who need an area to …
Installing a Large SSD Drive in a Stock Amiga 1200
This project started as a need to come up with a solution for my Amiga 1200 that recently suffered floppy disk failure. Although I am able to attach an external …
Screen Rot…
Back in the day… who knew?!? Who knew that one day, the technological devices of the era would have issues with their displays. LCD displays were a welcome advancement over …
Archiving Flux
For quite some time, I was buying devices to allow me to archive the over 1000 floppy disks I have acquired over the decades when collecting vintage computer systems. I …