Making the FD-505 floppy drive work
Thu 02 August 2018 in Hardware • floppies, msdos, pc • Leave a comment
I recently had the devil of a time trying to get a 5.25" floppy drive to work in my late-model Pentium 3 Dell, so here's some notes on That.
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Koala Pad
Wed 01 August 2018 in Hardware • koalapad, c64, pc, msdos, retrocomputing, art • Leave a comment
A week or so ago I was on eBay and stumbled across a thing called a Koala Pad. I had seen and heard of these before - it's basically a graphics tablet from 1983 that came out for damn near every home computer platform. I had seen them for the C64 and Apple II, but this one caught my eye.
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