For questions about modifications to retro hardware.
Modifications to hardware traditionally used to push components above and beyond what they were originally designed to do.
Questions tagged [hardware-mods]
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What prevents faster versions of old architectures from being created?
Showing my ignorance about hardware here — I noticed there is still a community developing Amiga accelerator cards. Giving substantial boost versus the original memory for example.
However the processor frequencies, while faster, aren't…
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Does this Nova rack have historical value?
I wish to modify my rack, in order to mount some modern rackmount servers.
Am I damaging a piece of history and will incur the wrath of historical computing librarians ?
It is an old 19" rack that used to contain a Data General Nova…
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