Hi all, I got a Commodore 8250 disk station last weekend. It's working mostly fine, but the drives needed some service and I removed the filter cap after it blew up on me. (I looked for Rifas, didn't find any and thought I'd be safe - I was wrong! It stan …

My understanding was that SNK added a daughterboard with a voltage regulator to early models in response to people plugging in a wrong AC adapter and frying their consoles without the regulator built in. Later AES revisions incorporated the voltage regulat …

Hi all,I have a power issue on my drive and haven’t found a definitive solution online so decided to post the details here. I’m troubleshooting a 12v issue. At power up, drive lights come on as expected with the green led staying lit and the red led c …

Hey! I have a Commodore PET which's voltage regulators are faulty. As I've desoldered both of the pins of the broken regulator, I have encountered that it is additionally mounted with two "metal pins"? Unfortunately I don't know how to unmount it …

Dear Fans - My voltage increasing mods for all four candidate "Mean Well" switch mode power supplies ("SMPS") to power the unmodified Apple-1 announced in the old thread: https://www.applef... …

Hi all, I’ve bought an ‘untested’ Commodore 16 from eBay fully knowing that it would actually have problems, and indeed it has. Apart from the fact it was filthy and had no PSU, the board was pretty good. However, when using a modern 9v adaptor with …

Greetings to all,I recently acquired an Asus P/I-P55T2P4 v3.10 motherboard equiped with a Cyrix 6x86L-P200+GP CPU but no RAM.I bought 5 pairs of EDO stick (16 Mb and 32 Mb). I put a PCI VGA card (ATI Rage XL) and fired the mobo up.Of course, the CMOS batt …

There seem to be several attempts to produce fast Electron accelerators on the go right now, which does probably deserve a thread.I've been posting snippets about my effort on Twitter mostly, but finally got round to writing some actual details.Some of yo …

A friend approached me to rebuild his Apple II power supplies. One was a clone and one was an original. The original was already in pieces when I got to it, with components desoldered. The clone was very similar to the original Apple PSU, but cheaper and f …