Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-26, 19:36

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by Master_Shifu

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Bought a Wang 2200 MVP-A today :-) Beautiful, love it! ps. Screen rot is treatable. https://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=675 Thanks! Already found that info but was missing some materials to separate them today :-) If it wasn't for that post I might have passed on it, but when I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-26, 19:22

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So what do you do when you have 1 week off? You buy a mini mainframe.... or at least sort of... Bought a Wang 2200 MVP-A today :-) Made somewhere between 1976-1979 according to the different part stickers inside. This little beast is not really PC Compatible but it Runs BASIC-2 and FORTRAN. The CPU …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-04, 19:29

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Had a very lucky find today... Bought a Roland SCC-1 for under 30 euro's. Was listed as a Roland ISA Expansion card, no model number mentioned in the ad title or description. Only the silkscreen print on the picture gave away the rare find. And I snapped it up right there and then 😁 😁

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Re: Windows 3.11 on a 386SX

Posted on 2020-06-23, 13:35

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No CD-ROM drive, I’m running directly off a CF card. I think because of the IDE-CF adapter it won’t like me enable 32bit disk access... Actually, i had the same issue, couldn't figure out what was wrong at first but Windows 3.1 and later 3.11 WfW that ook forever to boot and windows applications …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-21, 14:14

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Tetrium wrote on 2020-06-21, 13:00: appiah4 wrote on 2020-06-21, 10:05: I have never seen a PSU that was not marked 220-240V. How old are the oldest PSUs that you've seen? 😜 I got a couple marked at 230v btw. The Tulip PC Compact and the Tulip PC Extend both have PSU's rated at 220 VAC 50 Hz. They …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-21, 07:21

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This. Be scared of any old computer that hasn't been powered up for years and years. It may be ready to pop :-) Yup, Famous magic smoke! and most of the time it is caused by the usual suspects :-) Oh and don't forget to take into account any power grid changes through the years... Most old PC's …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-21, 05:55

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Great find and that is a huge amount of money unless you consider they were designed to transmit for miles not just a hundred feet , if I read that link correctly. Well of course that is always under "ideal" circumstances. though the antenna was a little bigger then what we use now. If you convert …

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Re: External CD Rom Drive Q's -Scsi? vs. Parallel/EPP?

Posted on 2020-06-21, 05:07

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EDIT: The last HP one looks like it was spawned through an unholy union between an early inkjet printer and an egg slicer . The later XM4101S was a regular tray design like in the second picture, had one that was a perfect match to a macintosh SE/30. But they are harder to find. Found mine just in …

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Re: External CD Rom Drive Q's -Scsi? vs. Parallel/EPP?

Posted on 2020-06-21, 04:50

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I would go for SCSI, though i always hated the external cd drives that looked like they were shoved into a random external SCSI enclosure. There were a few that looked the part without ruining the looks of it, like the Toshiba 4101S or some HP and Philips models Toshiba XM4101S …

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Re: Advantech ISA Bus Expansion Board PCX-795 Help identifying Dip SW functions on card (with pictures!)

Posted on 2020-06-21, 04:29

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I think these cards are even older than you think. Here is an ad for them from 1991: https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Site-Early-Radio/Archive-Wireless-World-IDX/90s/Wireless-World-1991-01-OCR-Page-0039.pdf Wireless-World-1991-01-OCR-Page-0039.zip Thanks! didn't find this one yet, I had a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-20, 22:41

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Thats actually less than I was thinking but still a good amount of money After a little digging, I found some list prices from an old website around the same time for the ISA and PCMCIA adapter Aironet ARLAN 655-2400 DS 1-2 Mbps 100 mW ERP 150 m 5 km ISA card (1/2 size) $ 945 5 channels Aironet …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-20, 22:11

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Wow that WiFi card is awesome. That must of cost a fortune back then The Wireless bridge from that series(Arlan 640-2400) was around $ 2.695 dollars in 1995 according to Network World. So i guess the card itself would be somewhere in the 750-1500 ish? Not sure what the Wireless Access point price …

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Re: Advantech ISA Bus Expansion Board PCX-795 Help identifying Dip SW functions on card (with pictures!)

Posted on 2020-06-20, 21:56

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yup, that's the one. They work without drivers, there was supposed to be some sort of diagnostic disk with some utility's to solve conflicts, etc. I know the wait states are required if you use certain cards in the external chassis. and I can guess the DMA as well, but the memory and IO bank are a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-20, 21:22

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I bought an 8 bit ISA Wifi adapter with the Pre-802.11 standard, it uses 2.4 Ghz. with a top speed of 2 mbit. Had to scower ebay to buy the matching Wireless access point :) It's the Aironet Arlan 655-2400 made by Aironet in the early 90's before they were purchased by Cisco. It even has drivers for …

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Advantech ISA Bus Expansion Board PCX-795 Help identifying Dip SW functions on card (with pictures!)

Posted on 2020-06-20, 20:09

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Hi Guys, I finally found a complete ISA Bus Expansion set to add some extra ISA ports through an external backplane. Sadly, this stuff is so old, that even Advantech itself couldn't help me out in any way, there is nothing left in their archives concerning drivers, manuals, or any other form of …

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Re: Rebuilding a usable Web for 1992 machines

Posted on 2017-12-10, 10:28

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In Windows 3.11 and Win9x on my older systems, I tend to run 1024x768 (386) and 1280x1024 (486). Having some standard screen resolution options would be nice, e.g. 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x1024. I do recall using Real Player for streaming in 1997, but mostly for audio as the size and …

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Re: Rebuilding a usable Web for 1992 machines

Posted on 2017-12-10, 10:25

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What would be the situation with security on very old operating systems, browsers and hardware? Good Point, but you should not worry, there is almost nothing to exploit or hack actually. the page that will be presented is actually just the visible result of the complex backend that does all the …

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Re: Rebuilding a usable Web for 1992 machines

Posted on 2017-12-10, 00:03

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Seems we are both on spot about that, I'm incorporating the Feeds as well to provide a all day update of several news catagories and weather. i'm also trying to incorporate some feeds from popular retro computing websites but that's still something i'm looking into. it's quite the trick to get the …

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Rebuilding a usable Web for 1992 machines

Posted on 2017-12-09, 18:23

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HI Guys! Sorry to drop in like this, not sure if i'm at the right topic :-) i need your advice and help if possible. I'll try to make a brief introduction, i'm Sonny, just like most here a retro loving computing hobbyist keeping the machines alive that i grew up with. :) I have my own IT company and …

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