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Alive and Kicking I am writing this following the saga of the 386 known as The Albatross and after staying up way too late working on the next project. If you’d like to see what’s in the lab you can check the Specimen List. The life of working with pc retro is fraught with […]
Part IV and maybe THE END? Things have been getting done! The case is rust free and painted. I have a 1.44 floppy drive to add along with the 5.25 floppy drive. I have the Conner 340 Megabyte hard drive, the Trident ISA video card, and the ASound ISA sound card AS400. It is time […]
Part III of the story of Welcome back to the continuing story of The Albatross I refused to let die. This is the video series, converted to a web series instead! Yeah! Thus far we have determined the main Super Multi IO card is dead. That effectively meant the system was not going to […]
The Albatross refuses to give up or we refuse to give up on The Albatross.
The 386DX aka “The Albatross” Going retro! Memories. Memories that inspired me to try to find something like my first PC style computer, an Albatross, a 386 ( CCCLXXXVI in Roman numerals ). I had my C64 and my C128, my Amiga 500, all before having a PC was actually personally useful or fun. I […]
