Re: Help with Octek Fox M 286 (broken chip)
Posted on 2018-04-14, 17:21
Also, if you have another compatible 286 board, I'll outright trade you (or even a low spec 386SX).
Re: Help with Octek Fox M 286 (broken chip)
Posted on 2018-04-14, 17:20
I got it from Poland. The board does require some work though, I think it has to do with memory timing. Which version of the manual are you reading? Mine mentions jumpers, but no DIP switch. I'd love to have a look at it and set it to 1 wait state, as when I put 4x256 (for 1Mb) I get "invalid Switch …
Re: Help with Octek Fox M 286 (broken chip)
Posted on 2018-04-14, 03:19
Hah, I JUST got this board, paid $30 for it. Goddamn thing doesn't like anything else but 60ns - crashes continuously on anything higher. I have it doing a burn in overnight. This board replaces my other 286/16 board that suffered from a latent trace failure.
Re: Copying disks (720k to 1.44Mb) with GOTEK
Posted on 2018-04-06, 20:38
Edit - so it turns out it's not that easy. The DOS 5 disks I had needed to be installed (sure there's EXTRACT, but not on diskette 1) and THEN I could SYS the b:\ GOTEK image. I killed two birds with one stone by installing DOS5 on the second 256Mb SSD and then SYS to the GOTEK cell slot in b:\ …
Copying disks (720k to 1.44Mb) with GOTEK
Posted on 2018-04-05, 02:43
So I've got a set of DOS 5.0 disks, and normally I would just xcopy them over (same way I do with 360k and 1.2Mb) but I want these to boot (or at least the first one) - Diskcopy tells me, rightfully, that the disk source and target differ. AFAIK there's no switch to force a copy. How can I copy an …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-04-05, 02:40
Lots and LOTS of video editing re: 486DLC goes Solid State! Now just to add the sound overlay (narration, some Benny Hill ish...)
Re: Where can I find older, even parted laptops for $10-$20 online?
Posted on 2018-04-05, 02:37
Yeah it has to specifically be electronics recycling - not just general recycling. In my area there is one company that runs most of the centres and you can search on their website which ones take electronics. I know that some independent places will sell you scrap computers by the pound/dollar …
Re: Period correct build?
Posted on 2018-04-03, 03:22
When I try to stay period correct in a build, my scope is limited to the Mainboard/CPU/Graphics. The rest, I see as conveniece. Things like optical/hard drive, power supply, cooling etc are not really my interest. Strictly speaking even maxing out the RAM is often not period correct - who had 512MB …
Re: Period correct build?
Posted on 2018-04-02, 01:05
^^^ This guy Agilents 😉 99% of the time, any PSU failure I've had in the 90s and early 2000s on AT systems was a fuse. Once a transformer let out. ATX though...
Re: Period correct build?
Posted on 2018-04-01, 07:00
What usually fails on them?
Re: Period correct build?
Posted on 2018-04-01, 06:06
Would you be able to consider it period correct build if everything else would be from the period you are aiming for but you would use a new power supply for reliability reasons and modern cpu cooler? I was about to finish my athlon64 build from around 2005, but my only atx psu that I had from the …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-04-01, 06:03
Anybody want to take guesses as to what is in this industrial rack mount case? Was sold with no other description than "Industrial rack mount computer". I have an idea of what vintage hardware might be in there but would like to see a few other guesses before it arrives. rackmount.jpg Even if there …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-04-01, 06:00
Just got this for about $40 - It doesn't come with a case cover, but I think I can make one from a larger tower case - friend has a machine shop 😉 Otherwise, parts computer.
Re: What is this...THING?! o_o ("BitchinFast 3D 2000")
Posted on 2018-04-01, 05:56
That LED would have been too bright for the time period IMO. I dunno something about it looks fake. I mean, the whole card is, but that LED gives it away somehow.
Re: How many floppy disks do you have? And what do you do with them?
Posted on 2018-04-01, 05:29
Haha what an on-point thread! I'm sitting here converting the most used ones into a GOTEK USB as I write this. I probably have... Shit... A guess would be 250-350 HD 3.5 inch diskettes, about 30 DD, probably close to 100 DD 5.25, maybe 20 HD. I also have about 20-25 ZIP100 diskettes, and somewhere I …
Re: Mounting an SCSI drive in DOS when a C:\ and D:\ drive are already present in BIOS
Posted on 2018-04-01, 04:02
The onboard computer BIOS can only handle a C: and a D: - When those are occupied, the Adaptec's BIOS doesn't load 13h even if it detects drives. The ASPIDISK will load it after it has been formatted by SCSIFMT.EXE (part of the Adaptec suite) once it asks if you want to turn on the Extended …
Re: Mounting an SCSI drive in DOS when a C:\ and D:\ drive are already present in BIOS
Posted on 2018-04-01, 02:18
I did mess around with that, and I'm getting it to mount as e:\ but the drive is unreadable and cannot be scanned or formatted (it indicates errors) I think the way the drive is mounted by BIOS differs from how ASPIDISK.sys handles it (this one sees my Syquest disk A-OK, it's only 88Mb though) but …
Re: Mounting an SCSI drive in DOS when a C:\ and D:\ drive are already present in BIOS
Posted on 2018-03-31, 13:42
I don't want to boot from it though, I just want to access it. The fact that the Adaptec software can see the drive and tell me about the partition information leads me to believe that there is a way.
Re: Having Trouble Removing Permanent Marker from Computer Case
Posted on 2018-03-31, 04:42
1200 grit wet sandpaper. Works wonders on enamel paint. Source: 46 cars, 5 of which I've refurbished.
(Solved) Mounting an SCSI drive in DOS when a C:\ and D:\ drive are already present in BIOS
Posted on 2018-03-31, 04:40
Hello all, I've never had this situation before, but lately I've gotten my SSD IDE drive working with a slaved Compact Flash drive (both around 512Mb) on a 386 motherboard (no secondary IDE channels) using DOS 6.22 and now when the Adaptec BIOS goes through INIT it finds all my devices (an SCSI2SD, …
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