They are quite common so the first place I'd look would be local auction sites. Ebay is super overpriced. I just bought a 8x Goldstar writer for ¢50 and a 2X CD-ROM with ISA controller for $5. Just look at Ebay prices and you'll see what I mean. Every country have their own auction sites. Oh yeah, …

Hi everyone, I'm looking for an IDE CD-R writer drive that would be age appropriate for my Pentium 233MMX, so 1996-1999. Something along the 2,4 or 8x write speed and doesn't necessarily have to be able to write RW. I'm not interesting in anything external or SCSI. So if you guys have some …

Is it possible to load softmpu into upper memory? I've set up autoexec to load it high, but mem.exe tells me it has been loaded into conventional memory.

Not trying to necro my own threads, but I thought this info was relevant enough to add for reference in the future. I always hate it when I search for solutions, then find some thread with someone claiming to have fixed it but not telling how to do it or what the actual issue was... As suspected the …

I managed to get it to work :D So it turns out this was not a direct hardware problem of the FDD itself, but rather of the whole system. it seems the IBM Model 30 hardware doesn't take kindly to newer MS-DOS versions. I figured that out because (as a last hail Mary) I formated a 720 disk with the …

I've got an IBM model 30 (8086) with a 720kb 3.5" floppy drive (dfl413c04a). I've seen the drive work once, but since it has not been reading any disks. So I took it apart and cleaned it, but I've hit a roadblock and I'm here for some help. So, the head seems to read just fine, because It can …