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