Leaded Solder
Old computer repair, history and programming.
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- 212 from 22 Nov 2017 to 31 Oct 2026
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2026 21
- Halloween with the Camels
- No longer a theoretical Camel
- Video Dromedary Processor
- Cleaning up after a Camel
- A Typed Forth
- More like SC-Forth-thousand, am I right?
- Dogfighting the Sharp X68000 ACE
- Embedding a bitmap font in your HyperCard stack
- Bridge Companion Becomes Block Companion
- Composite Companion
- Companion & Companion’s Cartridge Complication
- The BBC Tetris Companion
- 400-Line’s Just Fine For A Party
- IIgs The Future
- Moving Into a New Towns
- SyncMaster of the Universe
- Loonies for Loongsons
- Make Your Own ColecoVision At Home (Part 5 - Making More)
- Untrashing a TRS-80
- Leaded Solder vs. The Crazy 77
- Controlling the Wizzard
2025 18
- Giving the SPARCstation some jumper cables
- Commodore 64 black screen failure round-up
- You're Out of Timer
- Three Times the Fun
- Power Surprise with the ADAM
- Building my own ArdSCSIno
- Sony's Triple Seven
- A SPARC makes a little fire
- CoCo1 composite video
- Assembling the PC-6001
- PaPICOm
- Lord of the Sord
- The VTech Socratic Method
- Let's say scram to SCART
- Let's Make A Space Shooter With Nintendo Family BASIC
- BlueSCSI Goes Outside
- Junior Senior, Can't Defeat
- Building my own mechanical keyboard for the CoCo 1
2024 17
- I got the FujiNet for my CoCo in a previous entry
- A PC-6001mkII keyboard replacement
- Do I have a Bad Adam?
- A Backup Papicom
- You're telling me there's 64 Nintendos in there?
- Oya, I've heard of mega-ROMs
- Turbo Typin'
- Giving my PC-6001 a LIFT
- The Origin of the Species
- Tandy 1000SX is cleared for flight
- Outfitting my BlueSCSI disk image
- MZasters of the Universe
- Pretty Eight Machine
- Flat Panels Aren't MultiSync 3D
- Getting Kermit onto the MBC-555
- Stand for the National CF-2700 Anthem
- Big Blue vs. The Tandy 1000SX
2023 18
- LJN Video Art Appreciation 101
- The Bare NESessities
- NEC's Apple Clone
- No Highs? No Lows? Must've Decomposed
- Dick Smith's Wizzard-ry 8 (Bit)
- Mouse in the Artdink House (Travelling to Tokio, Part 3)
- Breaking out of the Snail Maze
- Mattel's Little Friend
- It's All Above Single-Board
- Why, you three-bit machine...
- Pippin in My Orchard
- Mastering the BASICs
- How Test Suite It Is
- Becoming Mr.PC's Type
- You Might Have To Tomy Twice
- Columns Me Maybe
- The Soggy-1000 turns a page
- The Floppy Flops (Travelling to Tokio, Part 2)
2022 23
- the previous part of my adventure with the 386-based NEC PC-9801RA2
- I don't know you from Adam
- Soaking it in with the SK-1100 Keyboard
- A Mini5 Hello World
- Roll the Tape
- NEC's Tetris Processor
- The Case of the Dead Mini5SX
- Mini5 Word Crusher
- Bad video RAM had Sanyo seeing red
- Call In The PROs To See Things Clearly (X68000 PRO Part 4)
- An SG-1000 II gets a second chance
- Sanyo MBC-555 is now working
- Another try at fixing the Magic Smoke SE
- when I was putting together the Minigun supergun
- Soggy-1000 ][
- SG-1000 Ways To Leave Your Original
- More Memories of Pictures
- Bluer than velvet were her SCSIs
- Call In The PROs When You Can't Flop (X68000 PRO Part 3)
- Go Back to GBS
- Call In The PROs When You Need Power (X68000 PRO Part 2)
- Set Sails For Piracy!
- Call In The PROs When It Gets Dirty (X68000 PRO Part 1)
2021 21
- Raising the PC-8801MH
- my Tengen Tetris piracy skills
- A Timex-Sinclair 1000 learns to love again
- MC-10 Hammered
- Presentcomputer 1000
- Make Your Own ColecoVision At Home (Bonus Episode - The Real Thing)
- Make Your Own ColecoVision At Home (Part 4 - Quadrature Controllers)
- ColecoVision “hand” controllers working well in the last entry
- Do you want to come for a ride in my Jaaaaaaaag?
- Can't keep The Most Useless MSX down
- TI-83 Plus One More
- Look, mom! X1's on TV!
- my freshly composite-modded Famicom
- ever since it was repaired
- Mega Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road
- Modding a PlayStation (Eventually)
- In Need of Adult Supervision
- All A-Keyboard for the Sharp X1turbo
- the boot screen is pretty
- has been convinced to start up again
- Unleashing the Power of the X68000 ACE
2020 15
- we last read about the Famicom composite mod
- the relatively inexpensive Mark III
- Let's visit Portopia
- the last entry
- Recapping a Sequel
- Reviving a Game Gear
- I got it to boot by replacing the video chip
- the PC-9801NS/T capacitor replacement
- Space Walking with Gemini
- The Sega SC-3000 goes to a key party
- Raising the iQue of my home
- Make Your Own ColecoVision At Home (Part 1 - Design)
- Attempting CoCo 'brane surgery
- Get the Tandy 102 (batteries out)!
- Hearing the PC-6001 out
2019 34
- power supply recap
- Recapping a Macintosh LC TDK power supply
- some more testing
- When I took a look at the keyboard last time
- trace repairs on the Bad ADB Mac LC
- the CoCo up and running in the previous entry
- The PC-8801MH's gross keyboard gets cleaned
- has a very spotty keyboard
- A headache from a Sega Nomad
- The PC-8801MH gets its battery removed just in time
- I get the ol' Rusty WonderSwans
- A surprising new friend for the 1000SX
- Repairing the power button on a WonderSwan Colour
- Another try at the whole Tandy thing
- Foiled again by the Tandy 1000SX
- A Game Boy Macro
- fixed up my SC-3000’s cartridge slot almost a year ago
- I first fixed the PC-6001
- fixed the 1000SX’s power supply
- whacked the battery out of it and did my best to clean up the corrosion
- tested the motherboard for shorts
- Tandy 1000SX power supply has an oops
- we were first introduced to the X68000 ACE
- VA2 "for parts" Genesis fixed
- the three “for parts” Sega Genesises I traded for in the previous entry
- NEC PC-8300 pickup
- Mini updates 3 - PC98 A-Train III, Atari ST keyboard fix, FM-7 video adapter
- Fixing the HB-101's keyboard
- Dual Goteks in the PC-8801mkIISR at last
- Guest Project - a Model M refresh
- Atari 1040STF mouse repair
- my previous entry
- PC-8801mkIISR opening and Gotek setup
- I first got the HB-101
2018 43
- Mini-updates 2 - A501 battery, PC-98 Gotek update, SparcStation 1+ debugging
- The last ride of PC88 colour video
- Apple IIe keyboard repair attempt
- The PC98 can remember lots of things
- Exploring the PC98 software catalogue
- A mystical journey to PC8801mkII colour video
- PC98 - New floppy board, sound 'fixed,' more testing
- Floppy adapter board works for the PC98!
- my PC88 floppy board
- my old IBM PC “DOS” floppy adapter
- SGI Octane runs again
- PC-8801mkII battery removal
- sold me the Macintosh LC520 back in 2018
- the last entry
- the monochrome video cable
- PC-9821AP2/U8W - day two
- PC-9821AP2/U8W - day one
- “Magic Smoke” Macintosh SE
- I was unable to get the SparcStation 1+ to stop returning “Illegal Instruction” errors for any attempt at booting
- SparcStation 1+ - have video, will error
- Removing the battery from a Macintosh TV
- C64 keyboard fixed
- Master System update
- Sega Master System pickup
- very battered one
- Reassembling the Amiga 2500, Part 3 - 5.25" Bay
- Reassembling the Amiga 2500, Part 2 - flickerFixer
- a nice-condition one
- SparcStation 1+ - have keyboard, will error
- Super Famicom Repair-O-Rama!
- The C64 is alive!
- Building a keyboard adapter for the early PC8801. (Part 1 - Research)
- Reassembling the Amiga 2500, Part 1 - Hard Card
- Commodore A501 memory expansion battery removal
- a previous installment of the SparcStation 1+ saga
- Commodore 64 pickup
- Amiga 2500 keyboard refurb
- Gotek with FlashFloppy on the Amiga 2500
- The Amiga 2500 lives! (on its original 68K)
- Neo-Geo MVS battery removal
- the trace-repaired Genesis
- The Forklift Mac
- Experiments in booting the A2500