Retro Tech Collection

Yesterday's Tech, Preserved for Tomorrow

One community for the machines everyone else threw away. The wiki, the archive, the forum, your collection and the grade. It all starts here.

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RTC Wiki

retrotechwiki.com

Service manuals, schematics, teardowns and repair guides for hardware the manufacturers stopped supporting decades ago. Written, corrected and kept honest by the people actually doing the work.

Machines covered, among many others
  • Apple
  • Commodore
  • Sinclair
  • Atari
  • Acorn
  • Amstrad
  • BBC Micro
  • Tandy
  • Sega
  • Nintendo
  • Neo Geo
  • MSX
  • IBM
  • Sharp
Open the wiki
Free downloads

RTC Archive

archive.retrotechcollection.com

Disk images, software, source code and manuals, free to download. Checksums are one click away, so you can verify an image before you write it.

Browse the files

RTC Forum

forum.retrotechcollection.com

Restoration threads, diagnosis help, marketplace and introductions. Post the fault, get the fix.

Join the discussion
Free forever

RTC Collector

retrotechcollector.com

Catalogue, value and trade your collection on web, iOS and Android. Unlimited items and real market pricing.

Start your vault

RTC Grading

grading.retrotechcollection.com

Function-aware grading on one 1.0–10.0 scale, with tamper-evident, QR-verifiable certificates. The hardware gets tested, not just the box.

Get something graded

Tools

Floppy Disk Workbench github.com/JYewman/Floppy-Disk-Restorer Open source Imaging, repair and recovery software for ageing floppy disks. Read the data off before the oxide gives up for good. PsionNet github.com/JYewman/PsionNet Open source A macOS app that puts a Psion on today's internet over its own serial cable. Its proxy handles the TLS and rewrites each page into something the Psion's browser can render.

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