Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-03-11, 00:18
Finally got a 5153 CGA monitor. Now I can really start playing with my XT. 😊
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-02-26, 06:06
Fiddling with a new machine. Doesn't look like much but that's a PDP-11/73. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_2675.jpg I want to possibly stuff it in a PC case but between the card cage and the power supply I might have to find a full-on AT tower or ATX cube …
Re: Has anyone else had their system catch fire?
Posted on 2016-02-26, 06:01
The machine I'm typing this from used to have a USB+SATA combo card installed in it. One of those nasty chinese things with NEC chipsets. One day about five or so years ago I was sitting at the machine when Windows began freaking out and kept popping up the "DEVICE MALFUNCTION" and "HUB POWER …
Re: Top 5 hardest retro builds
Posted on 2016-02-09, 06:04
PC's and clones are a piece of cake compared to 80's Unix machines. Big brand or off-brand, the hardware was almost never interchangeable and a lot of it was really hokey. Second to that is the early Macs. Just crazy amounts of patching and mildly updating the system software until bloody 9.2.2. I'm …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-02-09, 03:48
There is however a Plus sitting on my bench right now though in the process of being refurbished. I'll probably put Photoshop 1 and 0.6 on that. ;) Finished. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_2439.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer% …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-02-07, 03:15
I was bored so I grabbed a mac and installed Adobe Photoshop 2.0.1 with one of my old serials. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_2429_1.jpg which mac did u do this on? macintosh plus ?? :) SE FDHD. Almost the same machine but newer and supports 1.44mb floppy …
Re: Will you ever build a Win7 retro PC?
Posted on 2016-02-05, 16:04
No, because it's stupid. I meddle in old hardware because I want to intentionally run an older OS which a lot of games from the 80's and 90's are limited to. Sure there's a lot more high performance hardware but what's the point? 3/4 of the games I like don't run on anything past XP, let alone take …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-02-05, 07:29
I was bored so I grabbed a mac and installed Adobe Photoshop 2.0.1 with one of my old serials. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_2424.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_2425.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-02-03, 23:46
In fact my plan is to use it completely as a desktop variant. I can connect external mouse, keyboard & monitor through the docking station. Maybe l'll hunt down anoher Compaq LTE to use as a possible spare. Nevertheless the actual games I'll put in the dock's hard drive. Thus they will always stay …
Re: Power Macintosh G3- no startup disk selector.
Posted on 2016-02-03, 22:55
Literally yes. I call a boot to CD from OF and it will then hard-crash and shut down. Once I power back up, it boots CD properly. This is the only way I can boot successfully if the HDD is unbootable. It's quite strange. I believe the PRAM battery is toast. Goddamnit Apple why did you have to use a …
Re: Power Macintosh G3- no startup disk selector.
Posted on 2016-02-03, 15:06
Mine does the same. There's no boot select if you come up with the OPTION key held down. It will initially only boot from the CD drive. You're limited to the CD drive because the B/W's couldn't even use Target Disk Mode. Try selecting system folders with the Startup Disk control panel normally found …
Re: Earliest multiprocessing (on home PCs)
Posted on 2016-02-03, 03:05
HP 9845 machines were truly multiprocessing machines but it was 1980 and these are NOT home computers. There was back in the Apple II+ era two or three variants of a card that you plugged into your machine and it gave you a Motorola MC68008. There's a a translated document online covering how to …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-02-03, 02:58
Arctic wrote: A 300A Celery and PhysX :D […] Show full quote A 300A Celery and PhysX 😁 Those PhysX cards are amazing but it's a real mess to get them working with Nvidia's older drivers before they dropped support for it completely.
Re: VGA In Memoriam
Posted on 2016-02-01, 05:58
They seriously think VGA is going to die off like that? Reminds me of how they forced PCI to become obsolete even though years after most major brands stopped shipping with PCI headers you still keep finding it and fancy adapters like USB to PCI or PCI express to PCI. :lol: That being said, VGA sure …
Re: Any PCMCIA wireless LAN adapters for Windows 95 (3.x too)?
Posted on 2016-01-28, 15:05
Lucent WaveLAN/Orinoco 802.11b wireless cards are supported by everything. I'm pretty sure if you even dropped it into a toaster it would show up on the LAN. :lol: You can typically get a card for $5-$10 and reflash the firmware to the "gold" version which supports WEP-128 and their OEM rebrands are …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-01-27, 22:12
More floppy drive debugging. Looks like a dual comparator has gone bad.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-01-25, 17:01
Been chasing with an 8" floppy drive all weekend. Stepper circuit isn't working right because he reset bus is stuck. Getting close to tracking the fault down but damn if it's not annoying without a schematic. Interesting... i've just repaired an IBM PS/2 3.5" floppy drive. Now i've been looking to …
Re: IBM PS/2 floppy disk drive restore / repair
Posted on 2016-01-25, 16:39
What was the exact model numbers of the problematic IBM drives? And are these IBM floppy drives taking standard 1.44MB disks or are they 720KB or 2.88MB? I've had failures in all the variants of the floppy drives that shipped with the PS/2 excluding the 2.88mb drives. The one 2.88 I opened to see …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-01-25, 05:19
Been chasing with an 8" floppy drive all weekend. Stepper circuit isn't working right because he reset bus is stuck. Getting close to tracking the fault down but damn if it's not annoying without a schematic.
Re: RIP ST34342A
Posted on 2016-01-25, 05:17
Tetrium wrote: I can understand. And wow..15 years? 😲 That's awesomely respectable for a harddrive (especially a Seagate 🤣) The ST225 would like to speak with you.
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