Re: Is collecting cellphones a thing? (Odd quenstion, I know)

Posted on 2019-04-19, 19:47

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Aha, I don't collect phones per se, but I do collect Palm OS devices, which includes several phones: two Palm Treos 650 and a Centro. (However my collection also includes nutty things like bar code readers.) Nice! I have a couple Palms and a couple of the Sonys too, in their original boxes. Gotta …

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Re: minimum ram to get win95 running?

Posted on 2019-04-19, 19:46

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Somewhat related to the original post, I've shoehorned Windows 95 onto some ridiculously small hard drives too. :) I believe the smallest was a 20 MB or 40 MB model that required DoubleDisk in order to work. I was also running the bare minimum RAM and he result was more theoretical than practical. …

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

Posted on 2019-04-19, 19:38

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I have been working on some minor upgrades for my Tandy. I rummaged through my processors and found an 80287XL math co-processor that I decided to install. 😀 Filename Copro1.jpg File size 1018.69 KiB Views 1201 views Filename P1050200.JPG File size 1.78 MiB Views 1201 views

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Re: Trantor T-128 and SCSI2SD issues

Posted on 2019-04-15, 20:17

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If you want a challenge, how about setting SCSI2SD for two HDD's of 1019 MB? Will your system accept two HDDs? Hah! Unfortunately, it seems the moment the total partition size exceeds that number (~1,019 MB), issues arise. I created four 512 MB partitions wondering if that would work. FDISK didn't …

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

Posted on 2019-04-15, 18:26

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I have been working to clean my work area so that I can take some pictures and film some unboxing videos. I've been meaning to do this for liqmat for the past 3-6 months. My lighting equipment, tripods, accessories arrived this past week and I bought a new (to me) Panasonic G7 camera this weekend …

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

Posted on 2019-04-15, 18:21

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Jed118 wrote: Afraid I've got you beat: […] Show full quote Afraid I've got you beat: 🤣. Holy hell, you have that right! I'm glad that you got it to work though!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-15, 17:49

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HanJammer wrote: I love ST157As. Best hard drives ever. :] What is sad is that I saw your picture and immediately thought, "hey, ST-157s!" 😀 I might be a nerd...

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Re: Trantor T-128 and SCSI2SD issues

Posted on 2019-04-15, 17:47

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EDIT: I wrote the following before I saw Thallanor's reply on » 2019-4-13 @ 08:10 - I didn't realise there was a new page to the thread. Are you able to use a more standard 16-bit ISA SCSI card in your system? I use mine with a AHA-1540/1542CP, but also tested the cheaper AHA-1520/1522B. These …

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Re: Trantor T-128 and SCSI2SD issues

Posted on 2019-04-15, 17:39

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Cloudschatze wrote: I don't recall having to do a low-level format with the TFORMAT utility, for what it's worth. You are correct! A low-level format was not required. 😀

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Re: Trantor T-128 and SCSI2SD issues

Posted on 2019-04-13, 16:10

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I might be getting somewhere! And a lot of it is due to my stupidity. I started digging through threads I _know_ I've read before, especially from Cloudshatze who is who I first picked up on the Trantor T-128 working in Tandys from. He also indicated FDISK only seeing about one-third the disk space …

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Re: Trantor T-128 and SCSI2SD issues

Posted on 2019-04-13, 14:51

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Did you get a class 10 card or better? Luckily, low-sized SD cards are cheap. Yes, I think it is a mistake not to load the card's config file upon USB connection. I'm not sure why its written like this. If I recall, I think I had to create the partitions in FDISK for them to work properly. I think …

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Re: Trantor T-128 and SCSI2SD issues

Posted on 2019-04-13, 04:58

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Nice to see more SCSI2SD v6 devices showing up. I just ordered my second one, though not from inertial computing as I feel that this guy has questionable business practices. I hope you didn't order the unit with an SD card from that vendor. I've played around quite a bit with SCSI2SD, https://www. …

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Re: Trantor T-128 and SCSI2SD issues

Posted on 2019-04-13, 02:46

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I managed to find this card. It has the same FCID as the Rancho card that Cloudschatze uses and I think that at the very least it can use the same BIOS, if it doesn't already have it on there. I have yet to test it. Nice. Hopefully you're able to get it to work. The Rancho definitely seems to be …

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Re: Trantor T-128 and SCSI2SD issues

Posted on 2019-04-11, 17:27

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I don't have any experience with the scsi2sd device, but do change the "Device size" from 2GB to 1GB, and see if that makes a difference. I've tried 1 GB and even 40 MB but for shits and giggles, I might try even setting it to 10 MB tonight, just to see if that gets around it. Heck, while at it, …

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Re: Trantor T-128 and SCSI2SD issues

Posted on 2019-04-11, 16:40

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Version 2.01: http://www.symphoniae.com/misc/TFORMAT.EXE Thank you. I'll download and check when I get home. I recognize symphoniae.com though and suspect this is what I am using already. (If not v2.01 then v2.02.) I think that if this fails to work, I am going to yank the controller from my Tandy …

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Re: Win X

Posted on 2019-04-11, 16:29

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Use whatever operating system you're most comfortable with. Duh. :) I've used MacOS (pre-OS X), OS X, Linux for over 10 years and Windows for over 25 years and meh! They all have their pros and cons. :) Admittedly, I'm the odd one out; I was an Apple fanboy for almost 15 years before little nitpicky …

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Re: Baby AT mobo slightly out of line of standoffs - is it safe to just rest it on them?

Posted on 2019-04-11, 15:38

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My suspicion is that the effectiveness of grounding motherboards via standoffs is fairly overrated. The board is already grounded via several connections in the 20/24 PSU connector and subsequently via the wall socket to everything that is grounded on the planet. There are cases and test rigs based …

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Re: Trantor T-128 and SCSI2SD issues

Posted on 2019-04-11, 15:36

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The T-128 BIOS will support (and boot from) drives up to 1GB in size. To use the full capacity, I've always needed to partition and format using the Trantor TFORMAT utility, in conjunction with the "/S60" sector-size parameter. That is hopeful. :) Do you, by chance, have TFORMAT for the T-128 that …

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Re: Trantor T-128 and SCSI2SD issues

Posted on 2019-04-11, 13:50

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Err...I'd say a bit more than 32MB. It might depend on the BIOS. The version I used to own could handle 200MB drives, and I am somewhat certain up to 1GB was possible. ST-01 could also handle up to 1GB, but the main issue with it is lack of ASPI drivers...it doesn't support CD-ROM drives. It also …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-11, 03:12

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retardware wrote: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ZzAAAOSwvcBccneu/s-l1600.jpg […] Show full quote ISA 16650 serial card, which can use high interrupts (to get smooth mouse movement) I have been sorely tempted to purchase one of these. The company that sells them still produces them, which is pretty …

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