A closer equivalent to building an Z80 machine yourself would be building an Atmel AVR-based board (since you can do that entirely through-hole), but that's a microcontroller system that needs far ...

Most retrocomputer builds seem to focus on either restoring old machines or rebuilding them from scratch. Either way, the goal is to get as close as possible to the original machine, and while we ...

[Alexis] sent in a single board computer he’s been working on. The project goal of his build was making it easily reproducible. From looking at the schematics, it’s one of the simplest ...