Leaded SolderNew blog post! We enter the era of CD-ROM multimedia, which will usher in great prosperity and eternal peace for humankind. Also we fix a bad power supply. https://www.leadedsolder.com/2026/05/26/fujitsu-fm-towns-ii-hr20-power-supply-repair-pickup.html #fujitsu #retrocomputing #kicad
Moving Into a New Towns
There’s a lot of NEC computers on this blog, but tons of Japanese companies made great machines. Fujitsu, for instance, built a whole spectrum of computers. You’ve seen three of their 6809 machines in previous articles. Today, we’ll figure out how to get this sad 486-based FM Towns II to boot. Ideally, it should stay booted, too.