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Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-08-08, 05:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

djsb wrote on 2024-08-08, 05:42: Has anyone got a copy of Windows 95 for this machine (any or all of the versions) that they can share. It only came with Windows 3.11. Thanks. Mine shipped with 95, I uploaded an image of that from before first boot: https://archive.org/details/pocket-386-cf

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-08-06, 19:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

jakfish wrote on 2024-08-06, 19:20: Thanks for the link. Does the R38 just pop off? Or is there more surgery needed (I stink at soldering)? Easiest way will almost certainly be to desolder, but I’ll can let you know if it looks like there is another way once I have mine apart. Unless someone else …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-08-06, 19:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A modded BIOS, I hadn't heard of that. Is it tricky, bricky? One weird thing about the R-38 motherboard issue, for some reason, the device is keeping better date/time b/w shut-offs and I have not broken the R-38. Have you broken off yours? Modded BIOS is in this post, I haven’t used it myself: …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-08-06, 19:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I do believe that if you go into BIOS, go to the screen that references the floppy drive, and disable that, you'll get rid of the beep. I think the beep is a warning about the missing 1.44, which obviously is not part of the default hardware setup. This is correct. I believe someone also posted a …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-08-02, 20:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After many months, I’ve finally received my replacement battery, and my unit now works fully.

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-07-14, 19:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In a bit of a tangent too, one of the things I would like to do (if I ever decide to get one :) ) is do add a Thinkpad-style Trackpoint to the chassis somewhere. I have some spares. These already talk PS/2 so electrically connecting such a thing would be as easy as finding the MSCLK & MSDATA lines …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-05-28, 20:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

To resolve the RTC issues, could someone point me to the location of the elusive R38, next to M6117D? I can't find either one. I removed the bottom chassis but couldn't find anything, either. Also, is this an issue of simple disconnect/removal? If it's desoldering, that may be above my paygrade. I …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-05-24, 21:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

re: usb drive woes (sometimes the P386 sees them, sometimes not) I found an odd workaround and I don't know why it works. A Verbatim 4gb and Sandisk Cruzer 16gb, both nano, store-n-stay, weren't recognized until in Rufus 3.20p, I installed freedos on both. With freedos installed, both drives came …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-05-20, 18:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1. Half the time when I turn it on, it just shows No signal. Not sure if this is a bios reset issue others have noted or what but it's rather annoying to have it be a 50/50 if it'll turn on. I'm in the middle of moving so I haven't had a chance to hook it up to a VGA monitor to see if it displays …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-05-03, 00:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also took the CF image from the Book 8088, copied it to another 2GB CF card and an running it on the Pocket 386. I upgraded it to Windows 3.1. I feel that better fits a 386 with 8 GB RAM. I will see how far I get on drivers - sound, etc. Windows 3.1 has been running fine on my unit since shortly …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-05-02, 01:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Has anyone found a good compact pointer solution? Something sized to suit and not completely terrible? A normal PS/2 desktop mouse dwarfs the machine and has huge buttons. Used/NOS is fine. My plan was to try to track down a PS/2 travel mouse, hack the connector off and wire it up to connect to the …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-05-01, 20:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

fretinator@gmail.com wrote on 2024-05-01, 20:29: Got it, thanks. No PS/2 mouse works, but a PS/2 keyboard does work. I think I'll have to wait on the serial port add-on board to get a mouse. I do have a parallel port network card working (Xircom). Did you use the OSD to switch to external mouse? By …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-05-01, 19:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

fretinator@gmail.com wrote on 2024-05-01, 18:53: I didn't know how to disable floppy. The bios settings I know are from fn-f4 and fn-f5. Is there another way to get to the bios? Del while powering it on.

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-26, 17:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The included CF card in mine at least is a 2GB Western Digital SiliconDrive, which I’m sure was pulled from something going by how grimy it is. I can’t speak for the USB drives as I haven’t used it yet, but I’d guess any FAT/MBR formatted drive is likely to work.

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-23, 17:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

even if it didn't work i couldn't see it damaging the machine in any way unless you severely failed the soldering job. if i get around to it i'll absolutely let y'all know. I agree, I mostly just don’t particularly want to go through the effort of modding the unit if it doesn’t actually accomplish …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-23, 15:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i noticed the machine technically supports up to 16MB and the RAM chips are just soldered in... been debating on and off if i want to install some sockets and just slot in the max amount of RAM to see if it'd work. the only issue would be sourcing compatible chips. X) I don’t wanna be the first …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-22, 17:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That... is very useful. Thanks! I was scratching my head thinking of the best way to do a clean Win95 install on here to troubleshoot; the image'll save me the effort. Glad I could help! The way I ended up doing a clean install of mine (I switched it to Windows 3.11) was to mount the CF card as a …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-22, 17:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm decenty impressed although the lack of serial is a bit of a pain -- on the off-chance it might work I tried some bios options and passthrus and gender changes on a few different devices (serial tablet meant for cad work, a serial trackball, etc) and none are particularly pleased at being …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-22, 16:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BitWrangler wrote on 2024-04-22, 16:06: EditL crap I don't even have my Compact Flash reader dug out and set up, I was telling myself it was a priority to backup the CF before I do ANYTHING. I backed mine up before booting it the first time, if you need the image: https://archive.org/details/pocket …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-20, 02:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Anyone figure out if there is any way to click and drag with the keyboard mouse setup? The system appears to only register one key at a time.

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