I finished Lesson 2 of FEDEVEL Academy 's Advanced PCB Layout course yesterday. As I expected, there ratio of review to new material (f...

As part of a hobby project I'm designing a PCB that will include a Xilinx Zynq-7000 System-on-Chip and a DDR3L SDRAM. Both of these come...

I've been doing a lot of work recently with vintage PC disk storage subsystems. I'm hoping to present a talk on this topic at the VC...

Here's what I'm currently working on restoring for the System Source Computer Museum : Yes, this is an IBM System/360 Model 20 from ...

Okay, so it's been 5 months since I updated this blog. I have some catching up to do! Spoiler alert: I did get everything working in tim...

Any time you're working with older electronics, there's a risk that some of the components may have failed as a result of age. This ...

Since the Soroban Computeriter is entirely electro-mechanical, I expected everything to operate glacially slowly. Examination of the documen...