Main Page
| Welcome to the RetroTechCollection Wiki |
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| Yesterday's Tech, Preserved for Tomorrow |
Platforms
Guides by type
| Category | Pages | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| Maintenance Guides | 644 | Cleaning, inspection and preventive work, machine by machine. The full index is at Maintenance Guides. |
| Troubleshooting Guides | 645 | Symptom-led fault finding for each machine |
| Capacitor Replacement Guides | 525 | Capacitor lists and recapping procedures |
| Repair Guides | 47 | Specialist repairs and procedures that apply to many machines |
| Service Manuals | 664 | Pages for hosted service manuals and schematics, each saying what the document covers |
Guides for every machine
These pages apply across platforms. Read the first one before opening anything with a picture tube.
- CRT Discharge Procedure
- Capacitor Failure Symptoms
- Battery Explosion, Capacitor or Corrosion Damage
- Battery Refurbishment
- Floppy Drive Repair
- Hard Drive Maintenance and Repair
- Retrobrite
- Recommended Tools
- Safety requirements
For Macintosh faults, see also Sad Mac Error Codes and the Macintosh diagnostic serial console.
Manuals and documentation
Each hosted document has its own page giving its title, part number and date, what it contains and what it leaves out.
- Macintosh Repair Resources: repair books, Apple service guides and general Macintosh references
- Apple Service Source (198 pages): Apple's service manuals, machine by machine
- Apple Documentation (247 pages): Apple's other publications, the LaserWriter service-training manuals and third-party Macintosh books
- Apple Programming Documentation (151 pages): programming, language and compiler manuals
- Commodore Documentation (114 pages), including Commodore Books (69 pages)
- Service Manuals: the top-level category for service manuals and schematics from every manufacturer
Get involved
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Other RTC tools
RetroTechCollector
RetroTechCollector is a collection catalogue and marketplace run by RetroTechCollection. It records consoles, computers, handhelds and games with market values, and lets collectors buy, sell and trade. It is free to use, with some paid features, on the web and as an app for Android and iOS.
RetroTechCollector on the App Store
Floppy Disk Workbench
The Floppy Disk Workbench is an open-source (MIT licence) tool for restoring, formatting and recovering floppy disks with a Greaseweazle. The source and downloads are on GitHub at JYewman/Greaseweazle-Floppy-Disk-Restorer.
PsionNet
PsionNet connects a Psion Series 5mx, Series 7, netBook or Revo to the internet over its serial cable, and a netBook Pro running Windows CE or PsionLX over dial-up or the local network. For PsionLX it also plays Spotify and serves the PsionLX Software library. It runs on macOS, Linux and Windows, though on Windows it serves only a netBook Pro on the network. It is open source (GPL-2.0-or-later); the source and downloads are on GitHub at JYewman/PsionNet.
Install the wiki as an app
The wiki can be installed as a progressive web app (PWA) on Android, iOS, Windows and macOS.
Service status
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- RetroTechCollector: https://status.retrotechcollector.com
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