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Restoring an old 80's boombox
We picked up this gorgeous Philips D8569 boombox from 1982 at a second-hand place recently.
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Our NES needed a new 72 pin connector
Although thoroughly cleaning our new NES the other day was enough to get it booting Super Mario Bros, it wasn’t reliable enough. On a bad day it could take five minutes of fiddling with the position of the cartridge and resetting the console to get the game running.
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Repairing an old NES
Spotting a dirt cheap CRT television in a second hand shop in Trelleborg last weekend set in motion a chain of events that led to a Nintendo and a copy of Super Mario Bros arriving in the mail. Only thing is, none of it bloody worked. I got the old flashing red light when turning it on, and once blowing in the cartridge didn’t sort it I was out of ideas. Fortunately I found a very helpful YouTube video that walked me through fixing it.
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Ergodox, Ten Years Later
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That Weird Keyboard
At the start of 2014 I started to pay the price for years and years of typing. A horrible RSI was causing shooting pains in my wrists by mid-afternoon each day. Something had to change, but obviously not typing any more wasn’t an option. The solution I settled on was an ergonomic keyboard, specifically the Ergodox.