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Banksia BIT Blitzer 124E Dial-up Modem - Model BBM124E-B2CL

Nix McRetro // 30th June 2023 // Linux, Modems, Repairs

This is the first video in a two parter for the Banksia Bit Blitzer. This is quite a slow modem clocking in at 2400 bps. You can’t get those levels of slow just anywhere you know. Model number found on the underside reads BBM124E-B2CL with a serial number of 303159.... Continue reading

New Game Console, Redundancy, Modems and Cicadas

Nix McRetro // 26th June 2023 // Gaming, Livestream, News

I’ve gotta hand it to Sony, these live streams look so much better at 60fps at 1080p. And the games themselves? They look better than ever. I’ve retired my PlayStation 4 slim from 2016, we had a good run with games like Fallout 4, ummm Fallout 76, Sakura Wars, Horizon... Continue reading

Mac Web Browsers from the 90s and HTML/0.9

Nix McRetro // 30th May 2023 // IBM PC, YouTube

Here I was thinking I had an 11 minute voiceover but I misread the timeline. I’ll never use a script, I’m too lazy. Enjoy my half completed thoughts in the above. You’ll work it out. My biggest issue was HTML/0.9 being interpreted as HTML/1.0 since 0.9 doesn’t announce itself or... Continue reading

GeoCities Downtime - WD Blue SA510 1TB WDS100T3B0B Failure

Nix McRetro // 9th April 2023 // Raspberry Pi

GeoCities Downtime - WD Blue SA510 1TB WDS100T3B0B Failure

Back in late-December, and I’m talking right on 31st December 2022, GeoCities crashed hard. All thanks to poorly written firmware by Western Digital. Firmwares 52008100 and 52015100, I’m looking at you! The hardware failure of the the WD Blue SATA blade hard drive powering GeoCities was enough to take it... Continue reading

Miss Melody ES688 - ESS AudioDrive 688 Capacitor Replacement

Nix McRetro // 2nd April 2023 // Repairs, YouTube

Recently I had the joy of being able to replace the capacitors on a Miss Melody ES688. The poor thing had NCK branded caps, which are way past their best before date. Installed some Panasonics and Rubycons and it’s ready to roll. Just need a machine to test it in.... Continue reading