I recently got my hands on a ZX Spectrum Issue 2. It was housed in a keyboard casing made in the former Yugoslavia, with keys produced by a Slovenian company (IEVT). The excitement of finding it quickly turned into a mix of curiosity and dread once I opened it up.

I recently got my hands on a Galaksija kit from the official website (https://galaksija.org.rs). Since I was in Serbia soon after, I met with Aleksandar in Novi Sad to pick it up in person. This coincided with our trip to Belgrade, where we were visiting old friends.

In the realm of vintage computing, uncovering the secrets behind a faulty machine can be an exhilarating journey. Recently, I had the opportunity to delve into the inner workings of an Iskra Delta Partner (IDP) computer from 1987, which was plagued by random crashes and an endless boot-up loop. In

A year or two ago, I came across a Trident computer being sold by a collector in Bosnia. The computer was in a less-than-ideal condition, missing crucial components like the PSU, hard disk, floppy disk, RAM board, and operating system (or any kind of software for that matter). Undeterred by

I recently acquired two Ines keyboards from a collector in Zagreb. These keyboards were produced in the 80s by a Slovenian company called Inštitut za elektroniko in vakuumsko tehniko (IEVT), which still exists today as Tipro. I restored the first Ines keyboard and documented the process.

Iskra Delta Partner is a series of personal computers that were manufactured in Yugoslavia in the 1980s. In this blog post, we will explore how a Partner (specifically, the "GDP" version) can be connected to a PC using a serial connection. First, let's take a look at how the I/

Recently, our team was presented with a unique challenge - retrieve data from 30-40-year-old floppies that contained data and programs for Dialog, a relatively rare Slovene computer. Despite the odds, we were quite successful in the task. To retrieve the data from the old floppies, we used Kryoflux - a