Hacking Into the Past
In my youth, I would take apart various electronic games, un-soldering and re-soldering them, and taking pride in the fact that that the successful operation on the device worked. With respect to my first computer - a TRS-80, however, it would have been beyond all reason to vivisect such an investment. An old TV, a radio? Who cared. But my computer? No way. Back then computer magazines would advertise computers that you could assemble yourself. Although interesting, I did not have the confidence that to build a computer, nor the resources. Time jump to to the late 20th century, then an adult without any technical training, I often fixed tower computers and even built a few. Jump again to today and the advancements in technology, most computers are single-board devices. Alas, there's nothing to assemble and little that can be repaired. Not that that hasn’t stopped me. A few years ago while browsing the web, I discovered PDP kit replicas. Intrigued by the possibility of not only buil