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I thought part of retro experience is searching for hard-to-find parts and figure out a way to test and use them. Z80 is truly retro now.

New parts are obviously the safest approach but working with used, often obsoleted parts is part of the retro ethos. More often than...

There are couple glueless Z80 SBC that are easy to build and parts are available from China. I understand the parts are used, but they...

When I was a kid growing up in Taiwan, contract assemblies were common. Soldering was done with a pot of lead over charcoal fire. Kids...

These recycled parts need to be relabeled to release the original manufacturers of liabilities.

Pactec cm5 clam-shell enclosure is perfect for 100mmX100mm pc board. It is $10 new from Mouser, but surplus lots are sometimes...

Alternatively, not having 3-d printer or sheet metal tools, I design to fit existing enclosures. Considering how cheap pc boards are...

If your electric motor won’t start, most of the time is due to starter capacitor burnt out. It is so common that starter capacitor for...

I was still working when I heard of the hoard, so that must’ve been 15 years ago. How time flies! I’m not at all familiar with Retro...

Wow, nice! Albuquerque is home of Altair, did you managed to save a few? I remembered one time I was told there were a big surplus of...

Some of my vintage computer designs can use either 44-pin CF adapter or DOM interchangeably without software changes. Physically DOM...