Strange behavior of the Floppy Drive TOSHIBA T3100e, T3200
Hello world. I would ask about a very strange thing, on vintage Toshiba T-Series '84 laptops. I speak on plural because I have more of one (T3100e, T3200SX, T3200 and others two with two battery packs...
View ArticleChaos Constructions retrocomputer festival in St.Petersburg...
Chaos Constructions Festival took part on the last weekend of the August 2016 in St.Petersburg, Russia. Here are the pictures - general - http://imgur.com/a/MCSNu and here are the pictures of the...
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Lego 9767 Interface Build
VCF recently received a Lego TC Logo kit, but the Apple II interface board was missing. RetroHacker_ was originally going to build a replacement, but we had some issues with the control box and the IBM...
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Vintage Computers in movies and TV
In this topic, Chuck(G) mentioned he recently saw a movie where a lady killer robot was controlled by an Atari ST. This got me thinking this might be better suited for a separate topic as I'm really...
View ArticleCompaq Portable 386 VGA Card Expansion
Hi, About a month ago I got a Compaq Portable 386 machine which works great with some cleaning. CGA games play fine on the monochrome screen. Recently I picked up another eBay lot which contained two...
View ArticleParting out a Compaq Portable - does anyone need parts?
I had these posted on eBay but they didn't get much interest... I still have the panels (all four), motherboard, VDU board, floppy board, controller board, and the drives (floppy and hard drive). I...
View ArticleParting out a Compaq Portable - does anyone need parts?
I had these posted on eBay but they didn't get much interest... I still have the panels (all four), motherboard, VDU board, floppy board, controller board, and the drives (floppy and hard drive). I...
View ArticleHas anyone cloned the SSI-263P speech chip?
They're impossible to find. Now that I have Mockinboard and Phasor sound cards, I'd really like to put a couple speech chips in them.
View ArticleSites that are still able to be accessed by older Browsers.
I was wasting a bit of time to day looking for stuff and come across http://www.386experience.com/ I haven't been there for many years but it is still useful for getting old programs from.
View Articledual hercules / vga monitor use
How would I go about using a Hercules and VGA display at the same time?
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Tandy 6000HD at VCFMW
Pete asked to see pictures of large Tandy systems at VCFMW. Here's my Tandy 6000HD exhibit. The machine has the original internal and external 15MB drives, running Xenix 3.2. I was demonstrating the...
View ArticleHyperventilating - Just brought home PC 5150 in original boxes from original...
Found on Craigslist - he was severely over-asking, but after emailing back and forth, he admitted he did it solely to weed out people who don't actually appreciate the system as a historical artifact,...
View ArticleKIM-1 Repairs continue
Okay so I'm learning about scopes here but not still not enough to actually use one. Meanwhile, I'm doing the tried and true 'chip swap' method and just messing around with the logic probe to see what...
View ArticleHow to Downgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 7.
Excuse my ignorance. If I buy a laptop that comes with Windows 10 pre-installed, would there be any problems with formatting it and installing Windows 7?
View ArticleAmiga 2000 diagnostic software
Hi, it's me again... Long story short, I have an Amiga 2000 no-boot unit in for repair. It's got the original type Video Toaster in it and a H8 hard drive card in it. I got the hard drive working again...
View Article2 Apple IIe and 1 Apple II+
Sadly I'm going out of town for a week or I'd take the 90 mile drive and get these. http://fresno.craigslist.org/sys/5777313786.html Seller says 2 Apple IIe and 1 Apple II plus. Only 1 picture of the...
View ArticleIMSAI 8080 Questions
Hi Folks! Just bought an IMSAI 8080, a machine which has been on my wishlist for a long long time. It's currently on it's way over from the US to the UK. It's a pretty basic machine, MPU-A cpu card,...
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Slot 8 Support Daughterboard for XT-IDE
As promised: This is a little bit of board that will get soldered down to the back of the EEPROM footprint. You'll need to make three wire connections to the XT-IDE. Now, I'm sure we're going to get...
View ArticleModel II Archive Project
http://pski.net/trs-80-model-ii-archive-project/ In order to help build and enhance the Model II Archive, I'm offering a service for the Model II line of machines which is inspired by and similar to...
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Roland Sound Card... have you guys ever seen this?
I personally have the SCB-7 or whatever it is... the Roland Daughter Board... I have basically this set, but this one comes with an actual sound card that it's mounted to, and it's also a Roland as...
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