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Re: CDROM on Compaq Presario CDS 520

Posted on 2015-08-29, 06:30

by Caluser2000

You need two entries for Dos to see CD roms. One in your autoexec.bat file eg: LOADHIGH=C:\Dos\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 And one in your config.sys file eg: DEVICEHIGH=C:\CD-ROM\CD_IDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 I have an 8 speed drive in my CDS 524 running a 486DX2/66 and it doesn't require any slow down program. …

Re: Old fart topic: What was your hardware specs in 1992?

Posted on 2015-08-27, 06:36

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ System Specs

286/16 c/w co-pro with 4megs of ram, 3.5" and 5.25" HD floppy drives, VGA card and monitor, 210meg and original 40meg IDE hdds, 9-pin dot matrix printer, DRDos 6, GeoWorks Ensemble 1.2 Pro, Win3x and a hoste of other stuff, as well as a Thunderboard sound card, mouse, joystick and hand held scanner. …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-08-21, 06:57

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

dogchainx wrote: i went through all of my motherboards ive collected over the past few years.........uh.....hmm......i think i have an addiction. Admitting it is Step 1 on the road to recovery 😉

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-08-15, 21:31

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Skyscraper wrote: I do not have any suitable chargable replacement. I will check the battery now and then though, with luck it lasts another decade. I guess some folk just like to live on the edge 😉

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-08-15, 20:51

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

To day I set up my Harris 286-16 system permanently on my desk. I want to be sure to use it more often so the original ~28 year old barrel battery dosnt starts to leak, it keeps charge and only minimal corrosion can be seen where the leads attach to the battery. I'd be a good idea to ditch the …

Re: NE2000 cards and internet access

Posted on 2015-08-14, 20:42

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you are sure all your settings for the packet driver are correct, it is loading properly and the nic is serviceable it is possible you may need to use an intermediate hub or switch between the nic and router.

Re: Ultimate OS/2 Warp 4 machine?

Posted on 2015-08-14, 02:37

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

sliderider wrote: Snayperskaya wrote: There's always eComStation for those who want a similar experience but with less hassle. It's compatible with almost everything. And costs more than Windows. So what? Linux is free as well. This is an OS/2 thread ya know 😜

Re: NE2000 cards and internet access

Posted on 2015-08-11, 05:01

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just give it a static IP address an your'll be away laughing if the card is ok. I had the same issue on my 286/12. http://hackaday.com/2014/10/23/hackaday-retro … on-the-internet Make sure the dos packet driver for your card is loaded first.

Re: Questions about installing soundcard on IBM PS/2...

Posted on 2015-08-08, 04:50

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As mentioned earlier if you did a quick search http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/alf/ps2_50z/ You certainly would have found it wasn't ISA compatible. Looks like there's a possible upgrade path as well.

Re: Ultimate OS/2 Warp 4 machine?

Posted on 2015-08-08, 03:43

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Recently did a fresh install of OS/2 v4 on this K6-2 350 box with 256megs of ram, Which runs win2k normally. It was a piece of cake, so decided to see how my old v4 FP14 4gig hdd installation went. I'm typing this on an early version of firefox called FireBird I installed back in 2002 or thereabouts …

Re: Questions about installing soundcard on IBM PS/2...

Posted on 2015-08-08, 03:19

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Because you haven't bothered to do prior research before aquiring the machine? Enjoy it for what it is, an OEM IBM MCA product with limited expandibility.Use a generic clone to do real stuff...

Re: Questions about installing soundcard on IBM PS/2...

Posted on 2015-08-08, 02:59

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

King_Corduroy wrote: Well fuck... A quick google search would given you all the info you need about MCA sound cards and also set up MCA kit. From a techical view point they are interesting though.Would own one myself.

Re: Questions about installing soundcard on IBM PS/2...

Posted on 2015-08-08, 02:25

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Scali wrote: The biggest problem with PS/2 systems is that they use the MCA expansion bus, which is not compatible with the ISA bus. Not all PS/2 systems are MCA though. The OPS certainly is. There are ISA XT bus and AT ISA bus models as well in the PS/2 line up.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-08-06, 09:15

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I found the original v4 desktop a bit lacking so added XWorkplace Shell, Scitech display driver, a desktop switcher and numerous other customisations. The same is able to be done with v3 if you take it to the comparitive FixPack level. That was the whole point of Workplace Shell in the first place. …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-08-06, 08:55

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I dont Like the look of 2s at all and my old v4 desktop looks like: Filename OS2_MARK.jpg File size 92.93 KiB Views 2788 views Wouldn't change it at all as there's a few enhancements over v3s, which I have on my DECpc: Filename OS2DUM00.jpg File size 89 KiB Views 2788 views

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-08-06, 07:48

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Filename os2_mark.jpg File size 73.75 KiB Views 2803 views Decided to have a shot at getting my old OS2 v4 installation online.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-07-25, 09:46

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Practiced my pin straightening skills on a half a dozen cpus of various types.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-07-05, 21:03

by Caluser2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Made this post using my P200mmx Linux box and used it to download a file, irc client that runs in MS Windows 3.x Standard Mode, to to put on a 720k floppy disk, remember those?, so I could SneakerNet it to my 286. Fired up the 286. loaded the nic packet driver and winpkt. then fired up Win 3.1. Ran …