Category Archives: hardware

The incomplete Atari Portfolio disassembly guide

Posted on 28.09.2013 by cosi

I don’t want to be mean, but you better print this post and keep it by your Portfolio together with a small screwdriver – you know, just in case 😉 It covers only the keyboard part of the case – … Continue reading →

Posted in Atari Portfolio, hardware | 13 Comments

Hinges 2: Psion

Posted on 12.07.2013 by cosi

This time about healing broken hinges in SIBO Psions. It seems that this happens to be an issue in Psions too. David MacKay has written an exhaustive and excellently illustrated tutorial on how to repair the hinges. You may find … Continue reading →

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HP LX’s hinges

Posted on 16.06.2013 by cosi

Recently, I had a conversation with Chris S, a vintage stuff collector who told me that he’d never had an HP LX because of the (in)famous problems with hinges. To calm his worries, I promised to come with a link to … Continue reading →

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Vintage palmtop and a Linux PC

Posted on 20.03.2012 by cosi

I announced a text about games, but meanwhile another idea came to my mind. Surfing the Web I encountered many questions about uploading files to a vintage palmtop, asked by the fresh owners of Portfolios, HP’s etc. While it’s fairly … Continue reading →

Posted in Amstrad NC, hardware, HP LX | 2 Comments

RAM expansion for Atari Portfolio

Posted on 20.11.2011 by cosi

UPDATE [2020/04/12]: By popular demand, I decided to take more detailed photos of the expansion board and post them here. The author is (apparently) unreachable, and I don’t have any schematics or technical knowledge of the circuit, so please, don’t … Continue reading →

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Besser vorbeugen als heilen

Posted on 21.06.2011 by cosi

I remember this German saying from school. It means “better to prevent than cure” and when it comes to vintage computers, this is painfully true. I’m really thrilled by the possibility, that one of my palmtops may get broken and … Continue reading →

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