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Welcome! On this site you will find details of my retro computer collection, which is based around the Acorn BBC Microcomputer, and the Acorn Archimedes series of machines that were popular in the 80s and 90s.

I’m also planning on covering my various projects installing and upgrading these machines. This is primarily to remind me what I’ve done, should I need to repeat it again in the future, but I hope others trying similar things will find the information useful.

I’ve started work on this site in mid August, and so it is going to take a while to fully populate it. So things may look a little empty here for a bit.

About

I’m Gareth, and I’ve always had an interest in making and repairing things.

As much as I would like to have a big garage or workshop to tinker with cars, bikes and other big mechanical things; I live in Central London where space is at a premium. Retro computing is one of the few hobbies of a suitable scale you can enjoy in a London apartment!

Blog

November 3, 2018

Hardware design complete

It’s been about a year since I started blogging about my Filestore project, and I’ve not really had as much time as I’d have liked to work on it. However in the last month or so I’ve got to the point where I’ve simplified the schematics down, and laid out the boards for production. Hardware …

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October 23, 2017

Arduino to Econet hardware

The reason I started writing this blog, is to document my work on getting an Arduino board talking to an Acorn Econet network. The Arduino has MicroSD storage, and an Ethernet port (via a commonly available shield) , both of which I hope to make resources available on the Econet network. This should be better …

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October 23, 2017October 23, 2017

Bridging the Econet / PC divide.

I mentioned on a previous post that Econet provides a way of linking together a number of Acorn computers, although I didn’t go into the detail of it can help when shifting around data between newer PCs and the retro world. The short answer is that on it’s own, it doesn’t help much, as using …

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