How to write to a Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Part I

As many of you might know, the Commodore 64 is still a very popular platform to play games on, create music on or just dust off your very Basic (buhuh) skills. Even I recently got one from a dear colleague (thanks Jelle & Simon!), a Commodore 64C – the “revised” model – with a power …

Lepper Primus bike saddle repairs: a HowToFix your front spring

Aaaah, a Lepper Primus saddle! One of the best saddles ever made. I got one on my Gazelle transport bike from 1940. It is loaded with 4 springs at the back with an additional two as main shock absorbers, a double coiled spring at the front and a perfectly formed leather surface. It looks like …

NCR PC386sx/MC20, an introduction

In my quest for an old computer I came across this beauty: a NCR PC386SX/MC20. At first sight a fairly normal 386, with a nice big red power button that you can push, a 3.5″ 1.44MB diskette drive, a 100MB hard drive and a host of interfaces at the back. When I bought it, it …