Project: Polk – The 5.1 Speaker Upgrade
It all started with DJ’s excellent “Audiophile On A Budget” article. Now, I do still love my MartinLogan MLT-2 5.1 set. But the simple fact of the matter is that small speakers have an...
It all started with DJ’s excellent “Audiophile On A Budget” article. Now, I do still love my MartinLogan MLT-2 5.1 set. But the simple fact of the matter is that small speakers have an...
It is an “Edsel“? An “Avanti“? Or, is it something in-between? The Atari 1200XL has always had a sullied reputation with the Atari community; thought of as a crippled machine that was too expensive...
Released in 1983, and designed to match the newly launched Atari 1200XL, the Atari 1030 modem was an interesting piece of hardware. The modem’s device-driver was burned into ROM, enabling it work with...
So I have this old college buddy who’s constantly telling me how awesome his sound system is, and I have always been very into music, electronic, rock, jazz, rap, basically anything except country with...
In 1981, Chris Crawford was riding high (little did he know that in just three years, he’d be looking for a job). Since joining Atari in 1979, he had become a full-fledged star programmer....
As an old Amiga-geek, this little GIF here makes me smile. The bouncing “Boing Ball” demo was an amazing thing for its time, as is the lore behind it. Consensus seems to be that...
For the last 13 years, I’ve been a proud, and quite happy, user of an original Logitech Di Novo keyboard, from their old “Media Laser Desktop“1 keyboard+mouse bundle. It’s still a great keyboard. Compact,...
UPDATE – 05/07/15 – I’ve done a second build of this Eagle kit, aiming for much more realism this time, and I am very happy with the results. Good news, everyone! MPC has re-released their model kit...