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HDD Track 0 repair tool

Hello! I'm not sure if the topic was already posted? My ST-4096 MFM seem to be dead. I have opened it and the park lock is ... locked (!) The head still blocked on the inner of the drive. In this...

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Wanted: Epyx game : Fore

Hi all. I'm trying to work in my Epyx collection and need to find Fore. It was a god simulator of sorts and has proven to be quite elusive. If anyone has one or knows where one may be please let me...

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Wanted: Paper Tape Punch Services

As I have a paper tape reader but no puncher yet, I'm looking for someone who can do odd jobs now and then printing off paper tape data files from an ASR33 or similar. Please PM me and/or respond in...

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How to be focused in De-Cluttering my workshop and collection space

Hi all, This post is going to be about how to DE-CLUTTER ones collection and how to make decisions on what to keep, what to sell and what to throw out. AND also how to become more ruthless in NOT...

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Somebody might be interested

I was involved in this computer's gestation and birth. We sold a number of them to the Federal DOT in Washington DC. I installed them and trained them in their use and WordStar word processing....

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Help with Bios and seeing HDD

I recently inherited a classic compaq 4402: 133mhz pentium 16mb ram (currently) cd rom drive floppy 1.6gb maxtor hdd My issue is that the first time I turned the pc on I had bios issues due to a dead...

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Sharevision SVT1010

I have one, it appears to be an 8bit ISA sound card. I was wondering if any one had any info on it? The only other identifying info on the card is: "MH2 ShareVision by CREATIVE CTS7000 059504" and it...

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Some Hardware for sale

Make me an offer: 1. AST FastRAM card, fully populated with 72 chips ram chips (I think it's 2Mb of RAM, chips are M41256PP-15, M5M4256P, TMM41256AP-10 and MT1259-10). Part number is 202146-003 Rev X6...

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Greetings from (Chicagoland && the Upper Peninsula of Michigan)

Greetings! Reasons I joined: -I'm in the process of buying a PDP8 clone (full TTL, naturally, none of this silly LSI stuff) -I have several very unique machines from the 90's I'm going to be selling in...

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Lunar Lander

Have been thinking about paying a lot of money over on the E place for a paper tape copy of Lunar Lander. Thought before I do that would check and see if anyone had it in a version I can get here. I...

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IBM PC DOS 1.00 on ebay

I thought that first version to sell was 1.10, so its not true. Here is box with DOS 1.00, but price is...astronomical... http://www.ebay.com/itm/NICE-IBM-DOS...oAAOSwNRdX2zS6

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Dissimilar Drive Manufactures

I may have found another contributing factor to the Bad Sector trouble that has been occurring lately on my 8080 CPM machine. I have two 8" drives, A: is a Siemens FDD-100 which is the last drive on...

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Clearing unallocated sectors in FAT disk image

I'm working on a PATA emulator that uses disk images files on a Linux host (Pi Zero) for the drive images. Like with most other virtual disk images, they start getting sub-optimal over time from...

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Applie IIgs Scsi Card?

Anybody have any spares? I just got a Apple IIgs and looking to set up an HDD on it..

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Huge Lot of Mac Plus(s)

I have 6+ Mac Plus(s)... right now, i assume "non-working" would like to trade/sell/swap etc. Looking for Coco II, Atari ( 500, 1040st ) and Apple IIgs Stuff. can ship, but not looking forward to it,...

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Kickstarter: New KEYCAPS for All AMIGA Keyboards

Dear Amigans, Some of you may well be aware already that my Team and I have launched last week our second KS campaign. The previous campaign was about A1200 cases that are currently under mass...

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CGA mode 4 horizontal line in C

Here's your chance to pick at my code again, debate the pros and cons of particular methods/languages/hardware, and dust off that vintage programming talent to show off in your local coffee shop! My...

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65802 vs. 6809 vs. 65816

I once heard that the 6809 was considered the most advanced 8-bit (8/16-bit) CPU ever. I also heard the 65802, available at the same time, wasn't quite as good. Is that true? What is the difference?...

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Vintage Computing TFWs

TFW you asked the seller to ship it carefully, and it arrives in a FrankenBox made of masking tape and the body parts of seven completely different boxes. TFW you hear pieces rattling around before you...

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Altiworld BBS

I have tried to avoid being a pest about the BBS, but have some news to share. The Altiworld BBS system has been under a lot of refinement lately, including adding some tutorials on effectively...

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