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2023-08-31
Big NES Plans!

I never had an NES as a kid -- it came out in the UK at a time when we were all very much into our home micros and not consoles, which didn't really take off here until the Mega Drive. But I've always thought the front-loading NES was really very cool. I mean, firstly, […]

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2023-08-16
My Atari 520 STFM

Released: 1986Purchased: 1989Processor: Motorola 68000 @8MHzOS: TOS 1.02 (aka 1.2). Upgraded to 1.04 (aka 1.4) via EEPROM. This was my second computer after the Acorn Electron. The very same machine is still with me and in (as far as I know!) working order. These things do have a tendency to break on their own 🙂 […]

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2023-08-16
My Acorn Archimedes A3020

Released: Sept 1992Purchased: Sept 2019 (eBay)Processor: ARM250 32-bit RISC @12MHzOS: RISCOS 3.11 I had memories of having used my uncle's A3010 (same machine, but without on-board IDE and with green Fn keys) way back when. Archies are rather unique British machines, now famous for being the first production computers to use Acorn's ARM processors. Condition […]

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2023-08-14
Setting up an Acorn Archimedes from scratch

Growing up with an Acorn Electron (the cut-down version of the more famous BBC Micro), I've always had a soft-spot for Acorn machines. There's a wonderful community out there for these computers, but it took me a while to put together all the pieces to get my eBay-acquired A3020 up and running. I'm writing this […]

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2023-08-07
A second post

Just to see where this shows up...

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2023-08-07
Hello!

Please wait... just trying to set this thing up and fiddle with all the templates 🙂

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