… or that’s the way you hack ’em!
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#SHORTS – ZX 81 Keyboard membrane swap
…or “have a nice key” 😉
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#Marchintosh – 2x Macintosh Classic
… or 1.5x Mac Classic cuz I forgot to take pics :/
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#SHORTS – Sinclair ZX Printer
… or 3D printing FTW! … again.
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Enterprise 64 – repairs and modding
… or Egyptian adventure
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Random Commodore Plus/4 hax
… or I’ve simply lost some pics
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Amiga 1200 – S-video mod and refurb
… or … am I stoned? :>
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Commodore SX-64 keyboard restoration
…or sculpturing is not that bad for health ;P
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Macintosh Powerbook 170
… or tunneling adventures
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Extreme refurbishing: Episode 4 – Vampiric Amiga 500
… or ginger/rusty shielding is hawt!

The story of three electrons … err Acorn Electrons
… or computers that conquered UK hearts
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Atari 800 XL + SDrive-MAX
… or another bedtime story

Two times GOTEK powered Amstrad CPC 6128 please.
… or quick and clean way to make a cool CPCs
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Commodore 128 – mods
… or adventures of a lame modder

Extreme refurbishing: Episode 3 – Commodore 116
… or did I just make poor-looking molded keys?
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Atari – The frankenSTein series
… or I’ve never thought I’ll ever do such transplants 🙂

Various Hax- part five
… or weird stuff continues

PiSP – old project in a new skin
… or I just had a few spare hours 😉

Sinclair ZX81 – composite mod and repairs.
… or, gee … this is a tiny computer
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Commodore 1541 floppy drive fixing chaos
… or fixing several 1541 drives for fun 😉

Various hax – part four
… or another round of weird stuff

Amiga CDTV – just simple refurbishing
… or busy days are really busy nowadays

ZX Spectrum +3 – Cleaning and sound fix
… or just another story about mature hardware 😉

Atari 130 XE restoration and upgrade job
… or nasty SELECT key 😉

Extreme refurbishing: Episode 1 – Commodore 64
… or a story about C64 straight from a Monster Truck
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Various hax – part three
… another round of small hax that I did over the past few weeks.

C64 ALDI – quick refurb job
… or a story about a C64 version sold along with potatoes back in a day

Amstrad CPC 464 – The turmoil – PART TWO
… or repairs mayhem … sort of

Commodore 1541-II floppy drive refurbishing
… or how to break stuff in order to repair it
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Cyclone PCB factory project
… or a DIY PCB milling machine

QuickShot QS-137F Joystick repair
… or how to simply fix a worn-out joystick

Amiga 600 – keyboard membrane fixes
… or how to figure something out while figuring something out

retroPC – old games anyone ?
… or how to get a bluescreen from the past

C64 Breadbin – restoration again
… or a glossy keyboard attack!

Various hax – PART ONE
… or how to get overwhelmed by too many projects

ZX Spectrum 48k – panel replacement
or how I bought ZX after 29 years.

Atari 1040 STe a.k.a. Puzzle project
… or how the shipping company did it again.
