Retro Computing Grotto

Who is Hiren and what is their Boot CD all about? Hiren is the Banksy of the IT Support world. …

Factory Resetting an IBM ThinkPad T42 Laptop

This IBM ThinkPad T42 is looking a little worse for wear but it does still power on and load Win…

Earlier on today I was trying to perform a factory reset/restore of an IBM T42 laptop and I got …

A USB Power Meter is a great tool to have on your arsenal as it can easily and quickly show you …

The DollaTek LCR-T4 ESR Meter is an inexpensive piece of test equipment that can cost as little …

I've got a box of Nintendo Wii power adapters that I need to test and there are basically tw…

Not a lot of people know this, on most (but not all) retro laptops will output POST codes to the…