My first computer was a ZX81, even at the time it was rather outdated and only one other person at school had one, but it’s what we could afford and I loved it. Very much a hobby / enthusiast...
Well it’s back, but I had to update loads of components and replace the theme, everything is “kind of there” but I need to fix all the video links by hand one article at a time and check all...
Well – for reasons too long and complicated to cover here, I managed to destroy my Youtube channel which had approximately a decade of content from various things on it. Some of it was included in articles on this...
If you’ve been watching my streams or VODs recently on Twitch, you’ll have seen that I’ve got back into Commodore 64 stuff. Since I only stream real hardware like the hideous poser that I am, I got a real...
Since we both had some time off work this week, we decided to go and visit Whipsnade Zoo. The weather forecast was somewhat mixed and we got fairly lucky with a mixture of overcast, sun and showers. That’s reflected...
Today I received another item from the states, which has come via the ebay Global Shipping Program. Before we get on to that, let’s explain exactly what this means. Sellers enrolled in this (which is most of them, since...
This kind of turned into an arcade only blog, but I didn’t really intend for that to happen, I lost a lot of enthusiasm to write a lot because my job wears me out mentally, for all the wrong...
I never thought I would ever find one of these, in fact I never knew this even existed. Yet here it is, a mint unused Phelios POP (small cardboard display). I’ve no intention of assembling this, it’s probably the...
Looking at the recent hits to my blog, it seems like a few people read this now. Given the content, at least some of them must be PCB collectors. For a while now, there’s been a real problem in...
Recently a computer museum has opened fairly close to me – called the Centre for Computing History. It’s run with backing from a few local companies (notably ARM) and takes donations from anyone who may have old equipment that...