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- MS-DOS and TCPIP Easy file transfer
Fast file transfer to a DOS machine… In the modern world? Without swapping discs or even getting up? Yea please! - Windows – Utility scripts
A list of useful Windows scripts to help in everyday IT life - MS-DOS and TCP/IP
File transfer on DOS and TCP/IP? ohh! Yes please! - Tcp Socket Client/Server
Added a simple TCP Socket client/server command-line application to the software library. Well it might be of some use. CErtianly came in handy when I was designing some client/server code for a application some years ago. Go get a copy in the Software library: - Software
Trawling through my old archives of software written by me and given free to you! I hope you find something useful… If you have an idea and you think it could be useful let me know, I could either make it or might have something…
- BBC Micro – Repair-o-thon Part 1
An increasing number of BBCs that need to be repaired! - HP 4952A Protocol Analyzer – Repair
Rapairing the old HP unit… Will it do anything or is it a brick? - HP 4952A Protocol Analyzer – Trash to Treasure?
HP Protocol Analyzer. It is too cute to die or have the shed bugs got the better of it? - Data switch box up-cycling
Up-cycling an old KVM as a serial switch box. Yeah, I could buy a new one but got it in a draw and why not? It is mechanical, passive and in a beige box! - Z80 Single Board Computer – From Junk?
A Z80 single board computer from a bang of junk and cheap PCB/IC kit? Oh yes please! - 0/0 Clive Sinclair
Sad to hear of the passing of Clive Sinclair. A true visionary and responsible for allowing so many to access computers. My first one was my faithful ZX81 which I treasure. Odd that the last post was adding a video mod to it to keep it working for longer. Let us remember him for his […] - Sinclair ZX81 Video mod
Adding a video mod to an old ZX81 so we don’t have to use a TV tuner! - Membrane keyboards
Fixing an old keyboard. Fingers crossed we can fix this as the XT ones, especially rare ones like the Commodore, is hard to find and expensive! - Commodore PC1 – Junk pile?
What? Another Commodore PC? These things are like buses, you wait for years and then two come along at once! Is this a pile of junk? Or might there be gold? - Dell Optiplex GX1 – Back to life?
Old DOS machine in beige? Whats not to like… Just gotta get it to work!
- TEAC Tape deck rescue
Repair an old, neglected tape player? Get the orange/red incandescent display to glow again with 80’s music and perhaps 80’s programs? Yes please! - 0/0 Clive SinclairSad to hear of the passing of Clive Sinclair. A true visionary and responsible for allowing so many to access computers. My first one was my faithful ZX81 which I treasure. Odd that the last post was adding a video mod to it to keep it working for longer. Let us remember him for his […]
- VMX-2000 AV mixer – with magic smoke!
- Motorhome – Leisure battery
- DIY Warning!A warning to sons and daughters who feel obligated to help their mothers with DIY tasks: Since my father passed away some years ago I have been called upon to fill his DIY shoes (and for a fairly compact guy he did have BIG shoes…) Of course I try my best but I must confess […]