Re: How many "hobbyist" PCs do you have?

Posted on 2025-03-15, 11:17

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by Sabina_16bit.

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If i hate some people, this is the only reason i do!!! When i see people disassembly old working Commodore or Amiga (or any other retro computers), just to get more money, i become instantly sick. As You stated, i hope there is some kind of revenge from siliconia to those people!!! You don't need …

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Re: How many "hobbyist" PCs do you have?

Posted on 2025-03-15, 10:49

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by Sabina_16bit.

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I want the Hrvatska/Croatian made PC clone. Am I hallucinating again, or did it have an 80188/80186? Is my memory faulty? Which might make it only partially PC compatible, if at all. But not on account of the CPU alone necessarily. Oftentimes that is the case though. If U find a 80186/80188,get 2 …

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Re: How many "hobbyist" PCs do you have?

Posted on 2025-03-15, 10:25

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by Sabina_16bit.

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, the worst thing is to give away something that become the part of family :) Especially when there is no interest, and You need to sell it for "not satisfying" price! For a few times i went a little to high with my "gambling" addiction, and bought too many things. At the end of the month i …

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Re: How many "hobbyist" PCs do you have?

Posted on 2025-03-14, 19:13

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by Sabina_16bit.

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, the worst thing is to give away something that become the part of family :) Especially when there is no interest, and You need to sell it for "not satisfying" price! For a few times i went a little to high with my "gambling" addiction, and bought too many things. At the end of the month i …

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Re: How many "hobbyist" PCs do you have?

Posted on 2025-03-14, 00:09

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by Sabina_16bit.

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Heheheh, no it's not stored in the bedroom (not yet), i have 2 rooms full of my stuff, so there's the problem. Anger adequate to the amount??? I didn't think about that also! Maybe this is the main reason of her anger??? Not the lack of space for her things :) Depends on the overall budget …

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Re: How many "hobbyist" PCs do you have?

Posted on 2025-03-13, 11:11

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by Sabina_16bit.

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If i count Amigas, Commodores, Ataries, Sinclairs and Amstrades, and of course Segas and Nintendos under my collection of retro computers (along sides with "DOS based" PCs), i have more than 100 working ones - from 286-PIII + 8bit ones! Besides this collection, there is around 500 laptops (newer …

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Re: How many "hobbyist" PCs do you have?

Posted on 2025-03-12, 20:57

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by Sabina_16bit.

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If i count Amigas, Commodores, Ataries, Sinclairs and Amstrades, and of course Segas and Nintendos under my collection of retro computers (along sides with "DOS based" PCs), i have more than 100 working ones - from 286-PIII + 8bit ones! Besides this collection, there is around 500 laptops (newer …

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Re: DOS 3.00-3.30 limits, with a riddle

Posted on 2025-03-12, 19:56

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by Sabina_16bit.

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in Marvin \ Software

I already wrote,I am always successful with using DOS 6.22's Himem.sys ,& also EMM386.exe (of course on 386+ CPU) & MSCDEX.exe on DOS 3.30,worx perfectly,no bugs. Never tested Win16's Himem.sys ,as DOS 6.22's always satisfied me & I mostly gets MSCDEX.exe from it within 1 single transfer.

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Re: DOS 3.00-3.30 limits, with a riddle

Posted on 2025-03-12, 11:03

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by Sabina_16bit.

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in Marvin \ Software

Thanx 4 detailed elaboration. & yes,for the 1st year of Internet in Czechia(1994) it only led to universities,1st to Praha,then to Brno,& mortal persons was unaware of it,it got public in 1995,most people here do not know,it was here a year earlier. My father had 1st dial-up internet connection in …

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Re: How many "hobbyist" PCs do you have?

Posted on 2025-03-12, 01:32

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by Sabina_16bit.

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

3 currently working, 2 in progress, and a bunch of parts for XP era machines but I'm having a hard time finding computer cases for cheap to get them into. As far as working/nearly working goes: HP Vectra VE 5/133 Series 3 upgraded with a Diamond Stealth 3d 2000 Pro, 200mhz non mmx cpu, and a 512kb …

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Re: How many "hobbyist" PCs do you have?

Posted on 2025-03-12, 00:57

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by Sabina_16bit.

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some of you have a legitimate problem. We could start and fund a museum with 20% of the stuff you have. I am willing to cooperate,if some other persons would like to do so,for example to co-buy an old industrial building(in some countries it can fit into a brownfield revitalization program & get …

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Re: How many "hobbyist" PCs do you have?

Posted on 2025-03-12, 00:44

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by Sabina_16bit.

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanx so much to everyone, whos main priority is saving Legacy PCs from scrapping, as I have it the same as a primary motivation & all,who has same priority,is a most noble collector,who is helpful to preserve historical values. The side effect of this priority is,that our collections does not …

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Re: Most Rare Hardware.

Posted on 2025-03-11, 20:35

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by Sabina_16bit.

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Probably doesn't need another thread!...see https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=51558 I was searching for similar threads be4 I based this,I did not find this,but here I also added,not just most rare,U own,but also most rare,U r dreaming about. For me the most unfulfillable dream is to have …

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Re: Most Rare Hardware.

Posted on 2025-03-11, 20:27

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by Sabina_16bit.

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is a RIMM really that rare? I have 2x128MB in my s478 Willamette. Although, I do not know if I will be able to easily source another two to replace the two CRIMMs. Perhaps the two CRIMMs are rarer than the RIMMs… I have a MoBo with RIMM slots & cannot find affordable RIMM modules for this comp. Do …

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Re: Most Rare Hardware.

Posted on 2025-03-11, 19:26

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by Sabina_16bit.

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

rain wrote on 2025-03-11, 18:57: Here 😀 I guess,none of the original mainframe computers was preserved for museum purposes,only fragments of their HW,am I right? The biggest fragment,I had seen of them,was a tape drive from 1 of them,some1 tried to sell it on Aukro.cz for 8'000 CZK.

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Most Rare Hardware.

Posted on 2025-03-11, 18:52

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by Sabina_16bit.

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Greetings. Do You have some extremely rare HW or whole super-rare computer? For example something like 8" FDD,2.8MB FDD(including some rare media for rare drives too),an 80186/188 computer,a rare expansion card,or any other really rare HW,like a RIMM RAM module,or a tape from a 1960s/1970s mainframe …

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Star Trek Games,LCARS GUIs,Screensavers,Extensions & Various Other Star Trek Apps for Legacy OSs.

Posted on 2025-03-11, 18:32

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by Sabina_16bit.

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in Milliways

Greetings. This tread is for those,who loves Legacy OSs & Star Trek @ 1ce. Please,share all Star Trek games,GUIs & various other Star Trek applications for Legacy Operating Systems(DOS,Win16,Win32) & everything about them(do not forget download links),share all,which may make a Trekkie using old OSs …

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Re: DOS 3.00-3.30 limits, with a riddle

Posted on 2025-03-11, 13:11

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by Sabina_16bit.

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Thanx,yes,I was asking about the same era,when DOS 3.0 to 3.30 was new,as this topic is about it,so yes,U make it clear,servers was almost all Unix @ the time,but as of we r speaking about DOS 3.0 to 3.30 limitations,I would interested,did ever some company or school,or library,or so @ that time try …

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Re: How many "hobbyist" PCs do you have?

Posted on 2025-03-11, 12:14

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by Sabina_16bit.

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

3 currently working, 2 in progress, and a bunch of parts for XP era machines but I'm having a hard time finding computer cases for cheap to get them into. As far as working/nearly working goes: HP Vectra VE 5/133 Series 3 upgraded with a Diamond Stealth 3d 2000 Pro, 200mhz non mmx cpu, and a 512kb …

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Re: DOS 3.00-3.30 limits, with a riddle

Posted on 2025-03-11, 10:35

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by Sabina_16bit.

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in Marvin \ Software

Did it run MS-DOS 2.11 or PC DOS 2.1? Most Jrs would have been running PC-DOS 2.1, then possibly later versions of PC DOS. Those handled the built-in ROM BASIC and the cartridge correctly. The screen is just CGA with a different pinout. I'm going to have a PCjr at an event in two weeks that is …

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