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So just a friendly reminder to cut out or unplug and remove those aging parcels of death attached to your vintage stash.. Battery corrosion claims another victim from my collection.🪦 Rotted the pentium chip clean off the board. Even if my soldering skills were first class, look at those pads...

Hey, back with another quick question for the VCF hive mind. Another retro 486, this time an sx 25mhz laptop, been stored for the past decade or more. Brought it out of storage, made a power 3 pin din plug and connected it to my bench psu at the required volts and amps. After an hour on charge...

Hi all.. Quick question to the VCF hive mind. Compaq Armada 3500 pentium 300 64mb ram built in. Purchased 10 or more years ago off a popular auction site. Purchased as spares or repairs, no psu, untested. Arrived smashed screen and with no way to test it I put it in the stash. Jump forward to...

Hi all, so as mentioned in my introduction essay I have a collection of old laptops I'm currently sorting out. Came across this one in the pile and have managed to find zero information about it as far as laptops go. Only the McDonnell brand name before it rebranded/ceased trading apart from a...

Just a quick hello from Robin Hood county in the UK. I'm Andy, married with lots of kids and grandkids,53 years young and lived through the best decades in history I'm sure. What was once expensive electronics is now retro equipment gathering dust in my attic space. From Master systems to...