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Restoring an old electronic device. The belts are still good, everything rotates freely. No mechanical jams here, ready for more tapes!

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N-gated Hacker News Jun 13

👴💻 A tale of epic proportions: one man's quixotic journey to revive a saltwater-soaked relic, because apparently, there's a shortage of working tech from this millennium. 😅⚡ Imagine spending more time and money on a corroded, ancient computer than on therapy—oh wait, it's the same thing. 🙃🛠️
https://jerrylparker.com/blogs/posts/sx-64.html #techrestoration #quirkyjourney #vintagecomputers #hackernews #humor #HackerNews #ngated

Zachary Powell 🥑May 18

Taking a trip back to the mid 2000s with my last media player before switching to a smartphone.

I tried to flash mod it by replacing the old spinning IDE hard drive with an SD card. It was a bit of a disaster, but we still explore the classic software interface and test how video and audio playback fares today.

Watch on PeerTube: https://tube.devwithzachary.com/w/obPPPUPa6ippC3MMqJdM3g
Or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/X_rzqGQ8d4w

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Using The Creative Zen Vision:M in 2026 - (Attempting) SD card upgrade

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DevWithZachary May 14

The Compact Compaq Windows 98 Gaming Machine - Compaq Deskpro EN, 1GHz Pentium 3 and Geforce FX 5200

https://tube.devwithzachary.com/w/oq1Xreihd8szezRJZizd89

The Compact Compaq Windows 98 Gaming Machine - Compaq Deskpro EN, 1GHz Pentium 3 and Geforce FX 5200

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Hacker News Mar 9

Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and Nvram

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/restoring-a-sun-sparcstation-ipx-part-1-psu-and-nvram

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Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and NVRAM

Repairing a dead power supply and replacing the NVRAM in a vintage UNIX workstation.

CellShoppe Phone & Laptop Fix Oct 28, 2025

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Hacker News Jul 1, 2025

Restoring a ZX Spectrum+ Toastrack

https://celso.io/posts/2025/06/28/toastrack/

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Restoring a ZX Spectrum+ Toastrack

I talk a lot about Commodore machines in this blog; they left a bigger dent in me growing up, but like most kids of my generation living in Portugal in the 80s, the first computers I played with were actually Sinclairs—first my friend’s ZX81 and then a ZX Spectrum 48K that my parents offered me. I have many memories of playing games like the Horace series, Manic Miner, Jetpac, or Chuckie Egg on my Spectrum.