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Can anyone identify this vintage computer?
Saw it through a window, and couldn't work it out... Attached Images IMG_20160814_175751.jpg (95.4 KB)
View Articleneed help with IBM Thinkpad 365XD keyboard and CD-ROM drive
In the last few days, I have acquired an IBM 365XD that was damaged during shipping; I managed to repair most of the damage, however, the CD-ROM drive makes crunching noises and fails to read a CD, and...
View ArticleCommodore 64 1571
My father-in-law recently passed away and I agreed to bring all of his electronics home and evaluation to possible sell. You wouldn't believe how many chargers I have in a big pile, He had so many...
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Sanyo MBC-4050 Restore
Found this in an old warehouse in West Texas, still boxed, quite yellowed. Always curious about CP/M machines, looking forward to working with it. Great keyboard too....
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Compaq Presario 860 HDD Int 13h address changed, need help
Foolishly hooked this up to a modern machine to back up, FAT partition table was bad after. Used NDD 8.0 to fit FAT table, now won't load Windows 3.1 32-bit disk driver. FINDHOOK.COM revealed the...
View ArticleSpotted on eBay: 48 IBM 5150/5160 cases/parts
Just saw this on eBeh: A huge lot supposedly of 48 IBM 5150/5160 cases some with parts and some without. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Huge-Lot-48-...m#ht_200wt_864 The single picture doesn't show everything...
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VCF West -- thank you everyone!
VCF West last weekend saw more than 1,000 attendees. Huge thank-you to everyone!!! We are processing the videos and will post links here when they're ready. Meanwhile there are some excellent pictures...
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Compaq Portable Plus working nice
I finally got my Compaq Portable Plus all cleaned up and fixed up, and so far it seems to be working quite well. Cleaned up the case and keyboard so it it looks nice and tidy. The floppy and hard drive...
View ArticleWhen eBay sellers don't pack right.
I purchased an IBM thinkpad off of eBay for $47 and 2 day-shipping by the seller. Seems good enough right? If the seller was shipping 2-day, you would expect quality packing, but when I end up getting...
View ArticleSelling a Couple Tandy 1000's, Amiga 500, and Motherboards (pickup)
Selling a few items on Kijiji in Cambridge, Ontario. Would be willing to sell for a bit less to members here. Pickup in Cambridge, or delivery in the Waterloo Region. I do not want to ship these items....
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Free Printers
I have several printers that will be going to scrap if no one wants them. If you do want one, you pay shipping is the only cost. File Aug 15, 11 08 56 AM.jpg File Aug 15, 11 09 20 AM.jpg Thanks, Kipp...
View ArticleFreHD Serial Port Use
Is anybody using the serial port that is present on the FreHD? If so, how? I have the impression that it is a vestigial debugging feature, and I wonder whether there is any means to access it from the...
View ArticleWondering the price on some Macs.
So, I have a Power Macintosh 7300/200 and a Macintosh Preforma 550 both working and with monitor, keyboard and mouse and I was wondering how much they are worth. I know very little about vintage...
View ArticleRevisit of "6800 MORSER" article BYTE Magazine October 1976
Did anyone here ever try building the Morse Code decoder described in the October 1976 issue of BYTE magazine, by Robert Grappel and Jack Hemenway, entitled "Add This 6800 MORSER to Your Amateur Radio...
View ArticlePreparing a DOS SD card for XTIDE using fdisk / Windows 10?
I feel silly asking this question - I managed it with ease a while ago, it's been a while since I needed to do it and I'm on Win 10 now. Last time, I used some VM program but I cannot for the life of...
View ArticleHow to get data the easiest way in a M1 and M4?
Now I have a beautiful M1 (with E.I.) and soon I'll have a beautiful M4 too. So, now I'd like to actually do more with it than boot the floppies that I own. I have a lot of cassettes as well and 2...
View ArticleA couple of questions about an old monitor
Hi all, I got an old, B/W 12" monitor. It's a no brand, China monitor, and it's labelled as "TTL dual freq. mono. monitor". The guy who sold me, told it's a CGA monitor, but I suspect he said that...
View ArticleKIM Talking Gibberish
Hi Folks! This one has me stumped. I've just bought a set of KIM I/O + 60k memory boards from Bob at Corsham Technologies which allows me to hook up a Terminal or PC via RS232. On one of my KIM boards,...
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10BASE5 Transceivers
Yes, the stuff with the vampire taps. My new workplace has a maintenance yard for the regional cable company behind it and several times now I've seen a few meters of appropriately sized coax go to the...
View ArticleITX motherboard with dual floppy support wanted.
I'm looking to build a small system with dual floppy drives, 1.44MB 3.5" and 360KB 5.25". I would prefer a board that's capable of running Windows 7 or 10, but I'll settle for Windows 98SE. Let me know...
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