Fred Bellaiche    France is a strange country. We tend to argue about anything. Nonsensical yet tenacious troll wars have been raging for years, for the naming of delicious viennoiseries or ...

Fred Bellaiche    In a previous post, I presented the restoration of an Apple IIc that I acquired a couple of months ago. Since it was my first steps with an Apple II ...

Fred Bellaiche    It’s been over months since my last vintage computer acquisition. In the meantime, I had a lot of fun with RecalBox, emulating tons of oldies. But now, we ...

Fred Bellaiche    It’s been a couple of months since my last vintage computer acquisition. I have been hunting for a DDI external disk drive and a Vortex internal expansion RAM card for ...

Fred Bellaiche    Last year, right on time for MARCHintosh , I acquired my very first classic Macintosh, that I have been enjoying ever since. But the vintage computing fever troubled my mind, pushing ...

Fred Bellaiche    At the end on the previous post on the Matra Hachette Alice I was left with an open question: which vintage computer shall I work on next I had ...

Fred Bellaiche    After the short LEGO break from last post, let’s go back to vintage computers. I had explored a few bit computers Atari ST and Mac Plus , so I decided to ...

Fred Bellaiche    After months of hard work restoring a Macintosh Plus, this time, I sailed towards more familiar shores: the Atari STF. I owned an Atari STF back in the late ’s ...

Fred Bellaiche    I am an Apple Fanboy. Always been. Nevertheless, it took me a long time to actually own an Apple device. The first Mac I ever bought was a PowerBook ...

Fred Bellaiche    Let’s go a little further into retro computing. After these first steps with the Sinclair ZX and ZX Spectrum, if was time for another British bit computer from the ’s: the ...

Fred Bellaiche    Let’s take a short break from vintage computers. As a consequence to the COVID pandemics and lock downs, home office turned from an occasional to a day to day way of working. We had ...

Fred Bellaiche    After my first baby steps into the retro computing world with a ZX, I thought I should add a new member to the family. In memory of the late Lord Sinclair, ...

Fred Bellaiche    My Previous posts on reto computing were dealing with emulating old bit and bit computers and consoles. That’s is what indeed triggered a bit of retro gaming and retro computing addiction. And, of ...

Fred Bellaiche    In the last post, I explained how I jumped into the retro computing bandwagon, and built a few DIY boxes for retro gaming via software emulation, based on the RecalBox project. During ...

Fred Bellaiche    The COVID pandemic had and, unfortunately still has a strong impact on us all. We all tried our best to cope with it, our own ways. Somehow, lock downs triggered a ...