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First post, by StaffelGuard1917

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Bought that machine 4 years ago on a local retrocomputer forum... Originally it had MFM controller and ST-225 installed (PSU was replaced there many years ago by the first owner, as the seller told). I installed joystick card and ISA8->CF device. Now it works with a CGA videocard from Pravetz-16, Bulgarian XT clone... Pics of original IBM CGA card also included) Display here is Hungarian Videoton... )

Reply 1 of 3, by StaffelGuard1917

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here's a pic of Cyrilic letters using that CGA card from Pravetz-16)

Reply 2 of 3, by Irinikus

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That's a very nice system you have there! 😀

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Reply 3 of 3, by StaffelGuard1917

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Irinikus wrote on 2023-09-10, 13:09:

That's a very nice system you have there! 😀

thanks ! To tell the truth I rarely use it - keep it mostly for events, as the oldest "margin" of PC's for me is the 286 era - fast 286's like 16 or 20mhz that's is my maybe favorite era of PC's in retrocomputing... I never had a 286 PC back in the day, when they were "actual" but many times have seen at friends' places in 1990-93, so feel some charm of that era computers ...) For example I called the game Prince of Persia - "Prince of PC" as it was on every AT system I saw in early 90's... Also Golden Axe, DEathTRack , F-19 and LHX were most popular games here on that platform in the day) So I have a 286/20 system connected to my main CRT VGA using KVM switch along with fast 486 and PIII/700 system, but that PC is just kept under table most times... I tried to paly Defender and Ultima 1-3, though on it this summer)

PC/XT era games mostly seem weird to me, specially some Spanish titles, like that Game Over series - my first own PC was a pentium, so that era of gaming is not for me)

And I see you have some SGI machines - must be interesting. I once was given an Octane tower in a school computer museum, where I donated a Toshiba T3200 laptop (I was making pictures there of Agat-9 computer for one book, my profession is photgraphy)... But that Octane had dead motherboard and I sold for parts on a forum)