Re: Help me with Olivetti ANK 27-102 N keyboard!
Posted on 2020-09-26, 15:57
They only work properly on older systems with PS/2 connector, best if you have Olivetti PC.
Re: Picky Olivetti monitor?
Posted on 2020-09-26, 15:54
M24 and M240 and M28 and M280 use propretary video timing. So original monitor only works with these machines.
Re: Olivetti M280 needed adaptation of a monitor
Posted on 2020-09-26, 15:52
You can find the pinout of the M28 video card when you look at the M24 specs. In vcfed there is a thread where someone shows a working TTL RGBI adapter for M24 to VGA.
Powerfull generic TEXT ONLY printer driver alternative for Windows 9x/2000 ?
Posted on 2020-03-05, 17:48
Hello, I have connected a professional daisywheel printing based Office Typewriter (Olivetti ET 2300 with LCU2000P paralleport interface) to my Windows 2000 PC (it can also boot into 98SE). Basically I can print on it using the WIndows Text Only printer driver. But the typewriter can not print …
Re: External floppy drive
Posted on 2020-02-14, 19:45
The Amiga uses these drives, right? Can you just drop Amiga drives into PCs and have them work? (And vice-versa) No, they need modification. They have different behaviour regarding the drive select signal. On PC, drive select is active, when signal is low. When signal is high, the drive is …
Re: External floppy drive
Posted on 2020-02-12, 19:42
LOL that is a whole lot of hardware that can be easiliy simplified by other methods.... Yes, but other methods are not RETRO. And don't forget, ZIP drive is hotswap. XT-IDE with a CF card is not. You always have to switch off for a swap. Serial connection is quite slow. And the fast modes of …
Re: External floppy drive
Posted on 2020-02-10, 21:42
OMG... no comment on some comments here... So it's about a Commodore PC of the XT class and data exchange with a modern PC... Easy... You need: 1. Parallel Port ZIP drive 2. USB ZIP drive 3. A few 100 MB ZIP medias 4. MS-DOS 5 or better on that XT 5a) A NEC V20 CPU if your Commdore PC has an 8088 at …
Re: External floppy drive
Posted on 2020-02-09, 09:13
Horun wrote on 2020-02-09, 03:33: (though would never format a 720k from a 1.44Mb if had a choice). Dear children, don't do that with your 1.44 MB diskettes... (But with 720k diskettes this is still ok when using a HD or even ED drive...)
Re: External floppy drive
Posted on 2020-02-08, 21:04
There were a lot of external floppy drives before USB drives. Many Thinkpads of the Pentium I-III had one. Olivetti Quaderno had one. Also other notebooks of that era had optional external floppy drives. But... SYSGEN... SYSGEN was a brand for external floppy drives even back to XT times... See …
Re: Olivetti M24 and XT-IDE
Posted on 2020-02-08, 13:56
Maybe the XT-IDE ROM is still unflashed? Then load flash tool from disk and flash... You must set the DIP to "ROM HDU External." for XT-IDE.
Re: Olivetti M24 + Xt Ide LT (Problem boot) [RESOLVED]
Posted on 2020-02-05, 06:49
I don't think it's the floppy. Filename cap1.pdf File size 66.06 KiB Downloads 62 downloads File comment M24 pcoket service guide
Re: Olivetti M24 and XT-IDE
Posted on 2020-02-05, 06:47
It should work. There are several peoples with M24 and XTIDE. Me, too, but it's older revision of the board. You may come over to http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?22-PCs-and-Clones - there are many guys knowing the M21, M24, M24SP, AT&T 6300, Xerox 606x, Logabax Persona 1600... What you …
Re: Olivetti SNX 140/s + EISA-SCSI-Controller + Windows 2000 = trouble...
Posted on 2020-02-03, 20:41
Yes, you are right, I have overseen one digit... It is using more than 70MB, much is swapped out. But it's still running acceptable speed. snx4.jpg snx5.jpg snx6.jpg As soon I get another 32MB I'll add, or even more. Non cached memory is still better than no memory. And I plan to add a 2nd harddisk …
Re: Olivetti SNX 140/s + EISA-SCSI-Controller + Windows 2000 = trouble...
Posted on 2020-02-02, 17:21
The 3com successfully installed. The machine is definitively not the fastest, but after boot on desktop, taskmanager displays just 6,5 MB of used memory out of 32 MB. So, where is the problem? The Weitek P9100 based graphics card gave the machine some remarkable performance boost, compared to the …
Re: Olivetti SNX 140/s + EISA-SCSI-Controller + Windows 2000 = trouble...
Posted on 2020-02-02, 00:46
No, I had to add it manually with the hardware assistant. Now I have an Adaptec 1540CF in that PC as the 2nd controller. I prefered to have an EISA SCSI controller in there, but maybe not possible with the 1740 as no drivers available. The 1540CF works fine after adding it manually in the hardware …
Re: Olivetti SNX 140/s + EISA-SCSI-Controller + Windows 2000 = trouble...
Posted on 2020-02-01, 20:36
The 3Com 3C579 network card is installed fine in Win 2000. But I can't test functionallity because first I would need a aui to 10base-t transceiver (just ordered one). I also found a CFG file for the Cogent E/Master-III (em932) card, but, I have no 2000 driver, only NT4 and that is not accepted by …
Re: Olivetti SNX 140/s + EISA-SCSI-Controller + Windows 2000 = trouble...
Posted on 2020-02-01, 20:08
Yes, I got the 3Com 3c579 up and running. But currently no AUI 10baseT transceiver, but Windows 2000 was happy loading the card's driver. At the moment, after finding the CFG file and drivers on a taiwanese university ftp server I try to add a Cogent E/Master III network card. But only NT driver, …
Re: Olivetti SNX 140/s + EISA-SCSI-Controller + Windows 2000 = trouble...
Posted on 2020-01-27, 21:54
About 2.5 minutes.
Re: Olivetti SNX 140/s + EISA-SCSI-Controller + Windows 2000 = trouble...
Posted on 2020-01-27, 18:15
What are you doing? Windows 2000 with 32MB RAM??? I overlooked that. Memory in that machine can be expanded iu to 256 MB, and until now the PC runs quite Ok, Windows task manager displays that there is still some free memory. Getting memory is a task I plan when I get the machine full running with …
Re: Olivetti SNX 140/s + EISA-SCSI-Controller + Windows 2000 = trouble...
Posted on 2020-01-26, 19:56
I tryed that EZSCSI 5 but it's too old, 2000 does not accept the drivers. Is there a ETSCSI 6 anywhere?
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