Reverse Retro

Modern tools for preserving, accessing, displaying, reusing, testing, and repairing retro media, components, and peripherals.

Diagnostics and repair

Modern bench tools for testing and troubleshooting vintage computer components and hardware.

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Component testing
Modern bench devices for checking vintage processors, memory, and other removable components outside their original computers.
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Controller testing
Modern bench devices for testing vintage joysticks, paddles, and other controllers outside their original computers.
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Expansion interfaces

Modern-host bridges and development hardware for operating vintage expansion cards outside their original computers.

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Vintage expansion interfaces
Bridges and development platforms for connecting vintage expansion cards to modern computers, virtual machines, or replacement hosts.
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Input and controls

Modern-host adapters for reusing vintage keyboards, joysticks, paddles, mice, and other controls.

Computer, compatible system, platform, or interfaceIntroducedProducts
Vintage input adapters
Adapters that connect keyboards, joysticks, paddles, mice, and other controls from vintage computers to a modern host.
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Networking

Modern-host bridges and software for communicating with vintage computer networks and network peripherals.

Computer, compatible system, platform, or interfaceIntroducedProducts
LocalTalk bridges
Hardware and software that let a modern computer communicate with vintage Macintosh systems and peripherals over LocalTalk.
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Storage and archival

Modern-host tools for reading, writing, imaging, and preserving vintage storage media.

Computer, compatible system, platform, or interfaceIntroducedProducts
Floppy preservation hardware
Peripherals for a modern host that read, analyze, image, or write vintage floppy media through a separate disk drive.
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Video and display

Modern switchers, converters, breakouts, and monitor adapters for vintage computer video.

Computer, compatible system, platform, or interfaceIntroducedProducts
Retro video interfaces
Modern equipment for routing, adapting, or converting vintage computer video without implying compatibility with every source computer or display.
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