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#Vintage Hardware
Vintage Silicon, Modern Lessons: What Transputer Boards Still Reveal
A look at old transputer hardware shows how early parallel computing foreshadowed later cluster designs and why coordination has always been the hard part.
A Pair of Vintage Voodoo 2 Cards, and the Fragile Work of Bringing Hardware Back to Life
A repair project for two Dragon 3000-branded 3dfx Voodoo 2 boards shows how legacy hardware depends on patience, verification, and a lot of uncertainty before it can be trusted again.
Reviving a 1948 Module Exposes the Fragility Hiding in Old Machines
A powered-up IBM 604 plug-in component is a small restoration story with a larger lesson: aging hardware survives on assumptions that must be checked, not trusted.
The Strange Place Old Silicon Still Runs Best Is the Interface
An unusual host for an 8080 emulator is a small reminder that retro computing succeeds or fails on physical connections, not just on software cleverness.
Behind the Bench: The DIY Power Station That Tames Dangerous Voltage
A vintage East German variac is reborn as a versatile, isolated AC/DC testing lab-raising both eyebrows and standards in home electronics safety.