The 21st Century Digital Home

This is likely one of those stories you might know the ending of before it starts. Perhaps, but I'd like to document it here for others ...

Adafruit has created a fabulous place, Adafruit Playground, where makers may post their builds with no ads. So I have been publishing more t...

I don't write much about cancer these days. Between 1995 and 2005 I did extensively. As this is an anniversary, one that I may have not ...

  Tackling this IBM PS/2 Model 55SX next. Learning about reviving Microchannel Architecture machines.

  I worked for the HP Disc Memory Division in Boise Idaho, during the summers of 1981, '82, and '83. It gave me the money to almost...

  For the last few days, I set aside the IBM 5160 PC/XT and put the 5170 PC/AT back onto the bench. I got another AST Advantage! card with 2...

Buying old computers is always a bit of a gamble, as is buying used items made so long ago. As long as you go into buying mode with the expe...