Amiga 500 Teardown
Last updated: 04 May 2012 - 19:55
Amiga 500: A piece of home computing history.
I picked up an Amiga 500 from the local Freecycle list thanks to my wife's sharp eyes. I've fired it up and it works fine, but I decided to pull it apart to see what makes it tick and it's a great thing to look at for electronics people because the whole thing is through hole and big enough to poke at. I've gone through the chips in the video tear-down and covered a bit of the history. The camera work in the video isn't great, I need some practice so I thought some accompanying static photos that you can look at might help.
Vintage Computer Festival
Last updated: 19 Jun 2010 - 18:21
The UK's first vintage computer festival was held at Bletchley park over the weekend. It's an excellent venue and there were a huge number of people there. A spectacular array of vintage computer hardware was on display in addition to the contents of the National Museum of Computing and there was an excellent market for retro parts and spares, I picked up a couple of bits for my Spectrum and some manuals for the BBC Master.