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Re: Pc printers get worse and worse

Posted on 2022-07-27, 23:59

in Milliways

in Milliways

Novell Network Print Services were very popular back in 1990’s Works pretty well too - just map ("capture") an LPT port to the network print queue using this fancy GUI, the login script, or the DOS capture tool, and whatever you send to the LPT port goes via netware and comes out the printer. Under …

Re: Transfer files to and from an old pc with no USB

Posted on 2022-07-27, 02:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

On the same desk or short row, or across a small room you can hook up the AUI 15pin D connectors in a "null modem" bodge between two 10b5 supporting cards.. https://www.epanorama.net/documents/lan/aui2aui.html Yeah, I guess thats kind of what the DELNI does - its just a box with 9 AUI ports. Kind …

Re: Transfer files to and from an old pc with no USB

Posted on 2022-07-26, 21:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There were three common LAN standards using coaxial cable: - Thin Ethernet ie. 10base2 - 50 Ohm - Thick Ethernet ie. 10base5 - 50 Ohm - Arcnet - 93 Ohm I've always kind of wanted to give 10base5 ago. I've got some of the hardware - long (1-2m) AUI cables and a box of DEC h4005 ethernet transceivers …

Re: Transfer files to and from an old pc with no USB

Posted on 2022-07-21, 20:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

FTP.. Isn't FTP generally considered obsolete, like X.25, Telnet and the KERMIT protocol? :D The Kermit protocol is still around! A beta version of the C-Kermit v10.0 for Windows (based on the former Kermit 95) went up a few days ago and I'm currently working on PTY support for Windows 10+! Right …

Re: Transfer files to and from an old pc with no USB

Posted on 2022-07-21, 04:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

9x Workgroup / file sharing can be notoriously difficult to get working right, even more so if any semi-modern OSes are involved with higher security requirements etc. Yeah, I've pretty much landed at if it works out of the box then great I guess but I'm not going to jump through hoops trying to …

Re: Transfer files to and from an old pc with no USB

Posted on 2022-07-19, 23:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

LAN is the best method. You'll never go back. Ideally, if you have some spare hardware (old PC or Pi) set it up as a server running RetroNAS. That means you don't have to think about how to get old & new systems talking to each other, juggling different SMB versions etc - it makes it all pretty …

Re: Company names with abbreviations

Posted on 2022-07-19, 22:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DEC: Digital Equipment Company DEC: Digital Equipment Corporation A company that never really got the hang of naming things so they often sold products with names like or DEC or, the most lazy, <5 character middle bit of the part number> Examples: VAX - Virtual Address Extension (to the PDP-11), …

Re: C-Kermit for Windows v10 beta

Posted on 2022-07-18, 09:28

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Yeah, it is a shame. If the original library it was using got open-sourced then it would be pretty easy to add back in. The code to support it is all still there its just missing the one piece to make it work. Without that getting it going again would probably be quite a lot of work. Synchronet at …

C-Kermit for Windows v10 beta

Posted on 2022-07-18, 00:50

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Possibly of limited interest here but I thought I'd mention it anyway. What is it? A terminal emulator supporting telnet and serial connections. It emulates many different types of terminals and also supports file transfer using the Kermit protocol as well as FTP. There is some limited HTTP support …

Re: Using the Modern Internet on Vintage Computers Megathread (2022)

Posted on 2022-07-17, 06:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As far as Win32s compatibility goes, IIRC Visual C++ 4.0 was the last version that officially supported targeting Win32s. Stuff built with Visual C++ 5 and 6 may still work but more by accident than intent. I think after Visual C++ 6 the windows team forked the C library allowing the Visual C++ team …

Re: Using the Modern Internet on Vintage Computers Megathread (2022)

Posted on 2022-07-17, 02:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you want Telnet on windows 9x with colour, etc, C-Kermit for Windows (the product formerly known as Kermit 95 with the proprietary and crypto bits removed/disabled) may be an option. You can grab my latest test build here (run k95g.exe) and it should be up on the Kermit Project website within the …

Re: WinWorldPC and Archive.org

Posted on 2022-07-15, 05:32

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hmm freeware 9AEF898A-F756-46EE-BF63-E1C1EABCD80D.jpeg Beyond gainful recovery is the single most important aspect of software which has extraordinarily short useful lifespans. Yes, according to this press release version 5.5 of the command line compiler specifically (not the whole Borland C++ …

Re: My mid-life crisis 486 vintage DOS/Win 3.11 PC buy

Posted on 2022-07-14, 21:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think they try to build to similar quality as the later Lexmark ones (not as heavy as the older Ms, no detachable cable, etc). I've never seen a Unicomp one in person but I'd heard a few years ago quality was a bit worse probably due to the age of the tooling. But it looks like they've refreshed …

Re: WinWorldPC and Archive.org

Posted on 2022-07-14, 10:16

in Milliways

in Milliways

No because they have a license from the government which is responsible for granting copyrights to the authors of creative works. Reading that page it looks like the US Government allows archive.org to make one copy of a copyrighted work and lend that copy out. It doesn't allow archive.org to make …

Re: WinWorldPC and Archive.org

Posted on 2022-07-14, 09:54

in Milliways

in Milliways

My overall impression then is that the "rules" are not actually rules and just excuses for mods to edit posts. As such, I will continue to post links as I see fit. Delete them if you feel like it. If Vogons decides to establish actual forum rules, let me know and I will follow them. Surely its …

Re: WinWorldPC and Archive.org

Posted on 2022-07-14, 09:35

in Milliways

in Milliways

My overall impression then is that the "rules" are not actually rules and just excuses for mods to edit posts. As such, I will continue to post links as I see fit. Delete them if you feel like it. If Vogons decides to establish actual forum rules, let me know and I will follow them. Surely its …

Re: Installing Windows NT 3.51, stuck at formating hard drive

Posted on 2022-07-12, 21:11

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Large hard disks will likely cause problems though less so with SCSI disks. At a minimum the C drive partition can not be larger than 2GB for any version of Windows NT before 5.0/2000. This is because the text-mode part of the installer is only capable of creating FAT partitions and NT can't handle …

Re: HaikuOS looks like it could emulate classic Mac

Posted on 2022-07-11, 22:00

in Macintosh Emulation

in Macintosh Emulation

I guess the Haiku UI does feel kind of classic-mac-like in some ways. But of course at the API, ABI and overall architecture and design level its about as different from Classic MacOS as Windows NT is.

Re: Connect Vt100 terminal into a dos/win311 machine

Posted on 2022-07-11, 21:56

in DOS

in DOS

And of course to connect to a local big expensive not a PC computer. I've got a MicroVAX 3500 that was originally bought in 1988 by the NZ Department of Scientific and Industrial Research to replace a VAX-11/780. It has three CXA16 async multiplexor cards to support a total of 48 terminals locally …

Re: Windows 3.1 vs 3.11 (NOT FOR WORKGROUPS)

Posted on 2022-07-11, 04:06

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

They had some interesting things to say about OS/2 there! I knew IBM had access to the Windows 3.x source code and shipped a modified version of Windows 3.1 (and later 3.11) as Win-OS/2 for the blue-spine products, but I never really thought about how it worked for the cheaper red-spine versions …

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