In this episode of [Adrian’s Digital Basement], we dive into the world of retro computing with a focus on diagnosing and repairing an old full-height 5.25-inch floppy drive from an IBM 5150 system.

(Video embedded, below) As luck would have it, [Oli] owns a 40-year-old IBM PC 5150 as well as the matching IBM 5151 monitor, so it was a simple matter to implement the effect in 8088 assembler to ...

The future had arrived. On that date – 43 years ago this week – IBM introduced its personal computer: the 5150. It wasn’t the first – Tandy, Commodore, and Apple were already at the ...