The LS486 is back from the dead. When I left off last time, the board was stone dead. No beeps, no POST codes, no 3.3V rail. The prime suspect was a TIP110A transistor, the linear regulator respon...

I’ve had this JK Micro mechanical keyboard sitting around since I bought it back in 1992 (I’ve completely forgotten the exact model number at this point, sorry). It’s got genuine Cherry MX switches...

I was at a local junk shop last week and spotted something that immediately caught my eye: a 486 motherboard with a CPU still in the socket. For the uninitiated, these are getting pretty hard to fi...

I installed my PicoMem on my 486 machine, and by default it comes configured to use IRQ 5. Everything seemed fine at first, but I started running into weird issues once I had my Sound Blaster 16 in...

The Issue It’s been a while since my last post about restoring the Macintosh Classic II (link). At the time, the machine was still suffering from intermittent brightness issues, it would boot up wi...

Apple II Europlus So I just picked up an Apple II Europlus off Instagram. The seller said it was brand new and never used, and honestly, the case is still in great shape. The motherboard’s way cl...

I got my PicoMem a couple of weeks ago, and it had been running great—until yesterday. Out of nowhere, it just stopped booting. The BIOS wouldn’t come up at all. The AdLib module still had its red...

I was on Mayhem Portapack v2.0.1 and want to upgrade to the latest stable release v2.1.0. The update went okay using the web upgrade https://hackrf.app/. But then I saw the latest nightly update an...

The Issue My Macintosh Classic II suffers from an issue where the display CRT goes dim after a few minutes on a cold boot. Every time it happens, I need to crank up the cut-off and brightness pot ...

Maybe some of you are using In**ehome ISP as your home internet and found out that using the provided login has minimal options to configure the router: user user1234 I know it’s not the admin lo...