Welcome to the Retro Hack Shack!

There was something especially compelling about this rescue because the machine hadn’t just been sitting forgotten on a shelf, it had been pulled from an e-waste pile and was clearly only moments away from being scrapped. In this video, I dug into an IBM PC-XT 5160 that looked rough, incomplete, and very possibly dead, then…

There is something especially satisfying about seeing a late-1990s bargain-bin PC get a second chance, and that was exactly what made this eMachine etower 433i resurrection so much fun. I had pulled this machine from e-waste, and at first glance it looked like the kind of computer most people would have written off immediately: a…

I took a look at a tool that landed right in that sweet spot retro computing tinkerers always chase: something cheap enough to justify buying, but capable enough to actually earn a place on the bench. In this video, I checked out the FNIRSI DST-210, a handheld combination device that packed a digital multimeter, a…