mongaccio wrote:Nice portable, Deksor! […]
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Nice portable, Deksor!
I have recently bought at a flea market this 286. 40eur with its original carrying bag.
Probably a bit too much , but it is rare to see old pc's in flea markets in my country, you mostly see classy and antique furniture and non-electronic stuff, so i decided to buy it!
It's a Lemon! Nice sounding name here in Italy, the brand started by cloning the ...Apple... 2 hardware, then they decided to enter in the ibm pc clone market.
Not a good name for an English PC i've heard 😀
Has 1 mb ram and a 20 mb Miniscribe hard drive (with ide connector.. i wonder if it's really ide tho)
Floppy drive works. Here's the test with dos 6
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Battery is dead (both the 12v power supply battery and the 3.6v clock ) I'll have to replace both. There's also the tiny internal fan in need of replacement.
Hard disk is KO, i've tried to replace it with a CF with no success, BIOS is really barebone you can't modify hard drive specs (strangely enough detects a 20 mb hard drive even if it's disconnected)
There's also 2 ISA expansion slots. 8 and 16 bit. I wonder if i can put a 2nd controller in it and finally use some CF as hard drive. I'm quite sure that the BIOS won't allow me that.
Good lord i really need a service manual for this pc.
Same story for my Toshiba, I tried to put a 200MB HDD coming from another Toshiba (the T1910 model), but it didn't detect it at all ...
I managed to repair the HDD by opening it and then I unscrewed the magnet that makes the head moving, put it back, then unscrewed the head until it could move freely and then re screwed it and oddly it made the heads to unstuck. There was also another problem after that, when the head are stopping, they're going somewhere to avoid damaging the disks ... Well this was done with a magnet, except that a plastic part was gone and so the heads were also stuck to that small magnet and they couldn't move freely without a little help to unstuck themselves.
I know, the disk will probably damage itself now that I opened it, but at least I can use it for a little bit longer