0005 Check your old disks for contamination before you use them
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Test and try: Five (probably broken) hard cards #autopsy

Testing 12 mystery PC floppy drives

This is how to use an 8" disk drive on the PC

Mold on your Floppy? What next...?

I Repaired This 1970’s Hard Drive, but I Still Can’t Use It

Their Junior Tech Destroyed This $2000 Gaming Laptop In 60 Seconds!

Troubleshooting floppy drives with a repair (Tandon TM-100)

This Computer Did Things No Computer Should Do

0032 Why does this C64 keep blowing fuses?

Dell Tape Autoloader

I tried to save this rare floppy drive (Commodore 1551)

This 8" hard drive doesn't seem to exist (or does it?)

0055 Fixing a monitor that was damaged in shipping (and more!)

0036 How compatible is the Enhancer 2000? (A clone of the Commodore 1541 disk drive)

A big box of mystery computer parts

Let's fix a dead VARTA ravaged 486 motherboard

LGR Oddware - Tattooing CD-Rs with Yamaha DiscT@2

Have I found the worst CD player ever?

The Zeos 386SX was a speedy and competitive motherboard

