The Retro Lab needs a lot of storage for a lot of computers. Luckily, I have a cache of IDE drives that have been pulled from various systems over the years. However, I've never taken backups or images of any of them. When I was acquiring parts for my Talos build, I ended up finding … Continue reading How I imaged a stack of old IDE / PATA hard drives quickly, and planning out retrocomputing storage
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The Retro Lab is Go!
This past weekend I tirelessly cleaned and organised and moved everything around and I am very proud to present The Retro Lab! Pretty much everything needs to be set up, installed, and configured, but it's all here and over the next few weeks I look forward to documenting my progress doing these installs. Until then, … Continue reading The Retro Lab is Go!
The Retro Lab: Diggings around the fox den
I was cleaning out a desk and its cubbies in preparation for setting up the Retro Lab and I found some pretty interesting discs. I'll be taking better photos, or possibly even making hi-res scans with the SCSI ScanJet, later. But I couldn't keep these to myself. A CD-R of pre-musl Alpine Linux, burned for … Continue reading The Retro Lab: Diggings around the fox den
The Retro Lab: Introduction
Welcome to my latest series of articles, The Retro Lab, where I will be detailing my excursions into the art and hobby of retrocomputing. This article will serve as a general overview of what I hope to accomplish, and a bit about my background and why this will be fun for me 🙂 If you … Continue reading The Retro Lab: Introduction
