Have you ever been in the situation to have a very old machine and you wanted it to talk to your modern day fileserver in a secure manner? I know the following presented solution not ideal but better than nothing. Remember that we’re dealing with legacy hardware here that some cheapskate machine shop owner is […]
Author: audiocrush
Taking Inventory
So the other day I was over at the storage site where we keep the old Nova 2 to check out in detail what we got in terms of hardware in the computer and maybe establish a serial Connection. For making the serial connection I prepared an old Amstrad ALT-386SX portable computer my dad had […]
That Ominous Keyboard
Starting the project, I picked the supposedly easiest piece of hardware out ot the bunch: The Keyboard! It was in a very sorry state, at least by the looks of it. Unfortunately I don’t have a picture of it in that state but it was really dirty and crusty. I took it home to disassemble […]
A Few Pictures To Begin With
It started as a junkpile find. As IT Consultant we went onsite to a customer project to review some stuff. As we went along a hallway in the basement of their building we suddenly stumbled upon a room that was filled with old hardware, about to be trashed. Curious as I always am, I sneaked […]
Welcome To The Journey
This is the first entry to this site, mainly as a placeholder to see how it looks and help me set things up. First real content coming soon…