Re: PC-104 board found

Posted on 2020-07-18, 21:21

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Marco wrote on 2020-07-18, 19:29: 386sx40? That’s new to me. Always thought they were built up to 33 only Well I didn't even know the had these speeds, but if the manufacturer says so.... http://advdownload.advantech.com/productfile/ … 5-L_startup.pdf

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PC-104 board found

Posted on 2020-07-17, 19:27

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Hi people, I found a PC-104 board with a 386SX @40MHz with some ram which does power up but since it has no video output I can not see what it does. It does beep, 2 short beeps then a short pause and then 8 short beeps. Google found me this is either ram or videocard. The last option sound …

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Re: Working on something new/old

Posted on 2019-03-06, 17:55

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I just hated the idea of this thing being trashed. Never really worked with cp/m so this might just be an excuse to check it out 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-05, 20:45

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DaveJustDave wrote: 19rsn007 wrote: Look what the mailman brought me today 😊 This is gonna rule in my commodore pc-1 Time to break out Lotus 1-2-3 and/or SimCity yeah I heard something about simcity supporting this thing. How will I notice this?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-05, 20:10

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Look what the mailman brought me today 😊 This is gonna rule in my commodore pc-1

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Working on something new/old

Posted on 2019-03-05, 20:06

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Last week I saved an epson px-4 portable cp/m machine from the trash. The thing wasn't doing anything at all and it was dirty. Turned out to be a simple fix to get it working on an external power supply. The keyboard had some keys which weren't working, but that was solved by just cleaning the …

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Re: Repairing/Restoring an old machine

Posted on 2018-10-29, 20:29

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I talked to a friend of mine and he also stated the yoke could be out of angle (so to speak), so I'm gonna look into this. For now I can work on this machine in a more safe way (running it on the LCD), but when the machine is fully working and booting, I am going to put it back in it's case and …

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Re: Repairing/Restoring an old machine

Posted on 2018-10-29, 19:13

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Look, it does composite video output now 😀 This makes troubleshooting much easier (don't have to discharge the CRT now every time I want to work on the board)

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Repairing/Restoring an old machine

Posted on 2018-10-28, 20:09

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A week ago I traded some stuff I had for a none working Amstrad PCW-10. This was a less popular PcW machine is what I found on the internet. A friend of mine had it in a storage with a stickynote on it which stated it wasn't doing anything. I took it home, opened it up, discharged the CRT just for …

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Re: Look what I found :)

Posted on 2018-08-21, 08:51

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Nice I believe these came with Amstrad's 1512 line, 8086 based machines Yeah I found that on the internet. Still cool to have. I have been playing around with it and I like GEM (Reminds me of AtariST's TOS a lot!!) I even downloaded FreeGEM and played around with that a little..... pretty cool. Now …

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Look what I found :)

Posted on 2018-08-20, 09:30

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I got a bunch of C64's last Saturday and it came with 2 boxes of floppies. 1 of them contained these......... (see attachment) I made flopy images out them and they work fine 😀 Also made it work in dosbox 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-03, 09:30

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Question is if the dead pixel line is maybe even repairable...? Aging models may lose pixel columns from the display. This is caused by detachment of one or more pins of one of the SMD (Surface Mounted Device) chips in the display itself. In many cases this may be repaired by reflowing (resoldering …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-02, 10:52

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Well this wasn't today, but last week..... I went to a HAM Radio and electronics fair last week and got some stuff for fiddling around. I was finishing up when all of a sudden my eye was attracted to the corner of a stand where I noticed a portable organizer like device. It was a HP 200LX and I had …

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Re: Does anyone know what this is

Posted on 2018-05-10, 16:31

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Thanks for the help! Well.....I don't have a system to use it in right now (no VLB slots over here)

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Re: Does anyone know what this is

Posted on 2018-05-10, 08:35

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Wow you seem to know more about this 😁 I'll PM you so we can talk about this some more.

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Re: Does anyone know what this is

Posted on 2018-05-10, 08:17

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JidaiGeki wrote: Acard Artop Electronics ATP-8400A IDE / VLB CACHE Controller (just searched on the label AEC3240) Plus it looks like it's got IO onboard. Should be handy. Do you have any info about it? Does it require drivers or software of some sort? I have made some close-up shots of the IC's on …

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Does anyone know what this is

Posted on 2018-05-10, 07:33

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hello people, I was given this card, but I can not find anything about it. I know it's a VLB card, but what is the 68k doing on there?

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Quest for tires

Posted on 2017-12-26, 21:30

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Hi all. I am trying to play bc's quest for tires on dosbox but the controls seem to be not working. I can start the game but all BC does is jump and I can't do anything, no matter what key I press. No moving forward, backward, ducking. It starts, bc starts to jump and all he does is jump. anyone …

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Re: feeling got the best of me - My retro build

Posted on 2017-12-22, 19:59

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Jut upgraded my CPU to a 700mhz (socket 370 with a slot to socket converter 😀 )

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Re: feeling got the best of me - My retro build

Posted on 2017-12-20, 05:28

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well not really planned, but I just picked up the system and started building from there. My friend had a spare AWE64 gold he just donated to me. For now it's my retro gaming rig 😀

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