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In this blog post, I build an HDMI adapter for my TRS-80 Color Computer 2 Video of Coco-HDMI Background About five years ago I bought a new-in-box CoCo 2 from eBay and made a few improvements. One of the improvements I intended to add was a CoCoVGA. It wa

I've rewritten Galactic Warzone, my 1980s BBS door game, from scratch in Go. It's multiplayer, it runs in a browser, and you can play it today at https://galwar.smbaker.com/ Galactic Warzone 2025 Some ancient history I wrote Galactic Warzone sometime back

Try My RC2014 Emulator Online, Right in Your Browser In this post, I put an RC2014 Z80 computer up on the web so that anyone can tryit out, right from their browser, with nothing to install. If you've followed my channel or my blog, you know I have a soft

In this blog post, I restore a Teleram 4000, a portable vintage computer from 1983 that ran CP/M and used Magnetic Bubble Memory. Teleram 4000 Video - Teardown, Power-Up, Speech Synthethis, Bubble Memory Motivation Anyone who has read this blog a few time

In this video, I get a Speech Plus Prose 2000 Speech Synthesizer up and running. Background As anyone who visits this website is well aware, I collect, restore, and design vintage speech synthesizers. My go-to is usually the SP0256A-AL2 or the Votrax SC-0

In this post, I restore a GRiD Compass computer, and I build a speech synthesizer for it. Background The GRiD Compass has been on my most-wanted list for a while because it is an early computer that makes use of Magnetic Bubble Memory. I've restored other

In this blog post, I design and implement a brand new operating system for old computers. Why implement a new operating system? Let's face it, there's already RomWBW and Fuzix for the RC2014, and if you're not that ambitious, there's plenty of options for

In this blog post, I restore a vintage Sharp PC-5000 Background As people may have noticed from my other blog posts, I'm a collector of bubble memory and computers that use bubble memory. The Sharp PC-5000 is one of two noteworthy laptops that use bubble

This is a continuation of my post series on the Burroughs B21, a rebranded version of the Convergent Technologies AWS. If you're interested in the B21 / AWS, then please start with my first post in the series: Burroughs B21 / Convergent AWS Vintage Comput

In this post, I restore a Burroughs B21 Vintage Computer Background The Burroughs B21 was one of the computers that I used as a teenager. It was a long, long time ago. My Dad had brought the machine home from work for me to "play" with as they weren't act