So, yeahh...... It's been a while since I wrote anything here. Don't ask me why, I can't honestly tell you. This was the original home of Tech Made Easy before…
Online auctions are dangerous, especially when they're 250 miles away! I picked up with 386 machine on an online auction, but after picking it up it transpires it wasn't a…
In 1998 there was nothing I wanted more than one of these (except maybe Melissa Joan Hart). Could this machine be the ultimate early to mid 90's gaming machine? I…
Two years, 8000 miles and a few hundred quid later, I've finally accomplished what I'd hoped I would when I first picked up this machine back in September 2020 -…
There are plenty of 3D print options out there for PC cases, but most need you to print multiple parts or even use other materials like plywood or sheet steel…
Back when I started my IT career in 2002 most offices were doing away with their old beige boxes and opting for more contemporary designs in gold and silver. Compaq…
In this video I upgrade the Barn Find Pentium Pro with additional parts which will hopefully make it more flexible and easier to upgrade in future. https://youtu.be/xxdjKyQRqhk
A while back I made a PC stats display using a Raspberry Pi and some free software from Modbros. Conceptually I loved it as a solution, I just wished it…
Floppy disks were a massive part of the computing landscape in the 80s and 90s. Back in a time before high speed internet and USB drives, if you were moving…
Yeah, I know, I have way more money than sense. There was absolutely NOTHING wrong with my AMD Ryzen 3900x based system, even with its cautiously optimistic Radeon 5700XT GPU.…
Way back when, Intel needed a product that would bridge the gap between high-end server machines and ordinary desktops. They came up with the Pentium Pro not long after the…
Back in winter 1994 I remember spending one wet and windy evening sitting patiently in the aisles of PC World in Northampton as my dad spoke to a salesman with…
Last summer I was bored while my wife and daughter were away visiting family, so I began to look into the Retro PC scene. The problem was that where I…
The Portege Z930 can be picked up dirt cheap on auction sites these days. They've gotten long enough in the teeth that companies are getting rid, but they're still workable…