Articles tagged "Restoration"
Fixing my SGI Indigo PEC4044B Power Supply
Diagnosing and recapping the ITT PowerSystems PEC4044B power supply from an SGI Indigo R4400. The power stage was never broken; the supply was being shut down on purpose by its own protection circuitry.
Bench Tools for Vintage Computer Repair
What you actually need on the bench to bring an old computer back to life, and a rough order to acquire it in. From a soldering iron and braid through a logic analyzer and a known-good test rig.
Not a Gamer Review: Two Legit Commodore 64s and a Linux Box Pretending
An original 1983 breadbin against the new FPGA-based Commodore 64 Ultimate — head to head on the same monitor, the same floppy, the same code. Plus TheC64, which is none of these things.
Retrobright: Science and Philosophy
Understanding the chemistry of yellowed plastic and the case for restoration