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Welcome to Jab's Romanian Retro Corner, or Retrojab, however you want to call it, my first blog.
This Blog covers (or will cover) lots of information about retro electronics:
-Reviews of old Computers, and their operating systems. (Classic Mac operating systems, classic windows operating systems, and others, like MS-DOS)
-Hardware repairs, as well as software repairs, disassemblies, and upgrades.
-Retro pc game reviews and hardware recommendations.
-Retro gaming consoles (NES, SNES, Gameboy, and others), how to refurbish them, best video output methods. (I won't be covering video game console hardware modifications, only repairs)
-Retro console game reviews.
-A little history about most things.
-Retro music formats (like the compact cassette, open reels, vinyl) and machines that play them, as well as how to refurbish them, or simple repairs like changing a belt on a walkman. (if I'm unlucky enough to get one with a bad belt)
-Modern solutions for retro equipment. (flash carts, maybe, for consoles, how to record to a reel to reel recorder directly from your computers amplifier, replacing old hardware with modern solutions, like compactflash IDE adapters)
-Where to find retro stuff for sale in Romania, as cheap as possible.
-Possibly some other stuff.

My repair capabilities are limited, and many hardware modifications may not be done on a professional level, but I'll do my best to satisfy everybody's retro needs :D

I will post something whenever I have time, probably not every day :P

Special thanks to Teodora Leon, who inspired me to make my own blog. Link to her blog, which is 8 years old, here: http://teodoraleon.blogspot.com/

She does movie and book review, both in romanian and also in english. (but as far as I've seen prefers english)
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