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Hey everyone! I'm looking for some advice. I recently picked up a new computer for my collection. It's an 8 bit personal computer from the 1980s that's rather uncommon. I don't want to say what it is quite yet, because I don't want it to bias the answers you all give. Suffice to say there is...

Hey guys, just thought I would pop in and let people know what I discovered recently. So the story is... I recently won a 1541 mark II drive on ebay. Complete in box with all the paperwork, cables, introductory floppy, and original power supply. It seems the fella who sold it had cared about...

Should a normal healthy 6510 in a C64 breadbin get "freshly brewed coffee" scalding hot, or should it be more like "KFC that's been under a heat lamp all day" warm?

Hey guys So I'm working on restoring this C64 (250407 Rev A) and I'm working through all the problems it's having. I replaced a bad kernal rom (was getting hot as hell), and I dropped in a new GAL PLA. I was going around with the oscilloscope looking at the data bus and address lines, and I saw...

Hey folks! I picked up a bread bin C64 recently, and I'm building a new power supply for it. I'm trying to find a range of voltages that are safe, sort of like a GO/NO GO gauge for my supply. All the sources of information I've found have been very conflicting (been researching for a few days)...

Title says it all. For the longest time there was a company in california who was selling new in box tano dragons (clone of the coco) for a good price. They had bought them all out back in the day when dragon went under. I had been planning on buying one but now their website is down and has...

Hello I have been waffling back and forth and I have decided to change out the processor on my IBM 5150 to something close to what it would have had out of the factory. Currently the computer has a 286 speedup board that I want to remove (and sell to a lucky bidder). I am not entirely sure...

Hello all So as some of you might have noticed in another post I made, I have recently acquired a minty IBM 5150. Its in great shape and came with a ton of cool hardware installed. So of course the next issue is getting data onto this computer from a modern computer. I know I could install a...

Hello I would like to start off by saying that I am a new member to these forums and to vintage computing in general. I have referenced this forum before but have created an account now that I actually have some hardware and some questions. So here goes.... I picked up a rather odd IBM PC...