Monthly Archives: November 2019

Retro-CGA #1 – Starting the Journey

If you have been following the ongoing saga of my CGA card, you would have seen the recent progress in repairing the extensive damage to the card, and getting the card running with Sergey’s Micro 8088. Although I haven’t yet … Continue reading

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Learning KiCad; Designing and Building an ISA POST Card

The last post in my series on retrocomputing covered the testing of my repaired CGA with the Micro 8088. The process of troubleshooting took several weeks, and it became apparent that a handy piece of hardware to have would be … Continue reading

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Testing my repaired CGA with the Micro 8088

After repairing my CGA video card, and building Sergey’s Micro 8088 processor board and ISA 8-bit Backplane, I am now in a position where I should be able to test the combination of cards and verify if the CGA video … Continue reading

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