Month: March 2026

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HP Jornada 720 added

For some time now, I’ve had the HP Jornada 720 sat in my watch list on eBay. Last week, one popped up with my favourite word in the title, “FAULTY”.

The description said the device was all working apart from the keyboard. This was either going to be an easy repair or something a lot more difficult. I decided to take a chance and made an offer on the device, which was accepted.

Upon receiving the device, the description was accurate. They said that it was never opened, which was confirmed by the warranty sticker still being intact. I opened it up, pulled the keyboard ribbon cable out and gave it a clean with some IPA. I then connected it back up, and everything is now fully working.

A nice and simple repair, and now I have a fully working device to play around with.

And yes, it does run Doom!

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Meeting the Oliver Twins!

This weekend, a friend and I went up to the Bristol Video Game Expo and met with the Olive Twins. They were up there to give a talk about their career, which was very interesting to listen to. But before they did their talk, we bumped into them walking around the expo and had a quick chat. They also signed my copy self made copy of Wonderful Dizzy, which I made a while ago (https://www.northdevonretroarchive.co.uk/2022/02/13/wonderful-dizzy-homemade-physical-copy/)

They were very impressed at the amount of work I had put in to make it look as original as possible 🙂

They were really nice guys, so if you ever see them, don’t be afraid to go and have a chat. They have both lived such interesting lives.