Re: Netwoking on a Windows 98 PC - Security concerns

Posted on 2023-05-08, 01:56

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by davidrg

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No way of running modern SMB on vintage windows. No way of securely providing network drives to vintage windows from anything modern. FTP is probably no better than SMBv1 from a security perspective either, same goes for WebDAV. I use the NetWare file & print services which run over IPX/SPX. While …

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Re: Why floppy drives are important

Posted on 2023-04-21, 23:10

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by davidrg

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And some just refuse to believe the floppy drive isn't present. For example, in the BIOS there are no drives at all (this system is booted and runs entirely from the network): Filename img-90.png File size 105.22 KiB Views 1028 views File comment BIOS: No drives Meanwhile Windows 95 insists there …

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Re: Unknown scsi tape drive ? help !

Posted on 2023-04-03, 03:00

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by davidrg

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Found a picture of the inside of an ADR tape cartridge: Filename EU-KwnjUUAEWW-J.jpg File size 256.33 KiB Views 235 views File comment stolen from twitter Looks like my guess was right - physically it's an incompatible/proprietary variation of the extended mini QIC/Travan cartridge. Will probably …

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Re: Unknown scsi tape drive ? help !

Posted on 2023-04-02, 20:42

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by davidrg

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Weird - never seen one of those before. Seems to share some design similarities with QIC so presumably shares its flaws too - tension band in direct contact with the oxide layer of the tape that will eventually perish and either glue itself to the tape or fall to bits and lose its ability to advance …

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Re: History Of The SPARC CPU Architecture and scoring some Spar Stations

Posted on 2023-03-30, 21:39

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by davidrg

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I've got a couple of SPARCstation 4/5/20 and never had any trouble with the purple trim on them - it's all quite solid still. Perhaps sun exposure matters? The tabs on the front of the lid however - those are broken off on some machines. As for which machine? If you want a SPARCstation 20 you'll …

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

Posted on 2023-03-16, 00:06

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by davidrg

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Firefox 52 ESR is apparently the last release for Solaris 10 - according to the readme Oracle laid off the team as soon it was done. Its from 2017 so for now at least its still new enough to load and render all websites I've tested so far. The machine is a Sun Blade 1500 with a 1GHz UltraSPARC IIIi …

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

Posted on 2023-03-15, 20:46

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by davidrg

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Been fixing up some old SPARCs lately. This one is fast enough to run a web browser! Filename sparc.png File size 194.7 KiB Views 706 views

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-02-28, 04:05

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by davidrg

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EtherDFS is a very slim DOS network solution. It uses the network filsystem interface Microsoft introduced around DOS 3.x, and slightly adjusted in DOS 5.0, and just forwards whatever MS-DOS 5.0 requests from the network driver. The limitation is that this interface between MS-DOS and the network …

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Re: Windows 3.11 driver for ESS Audiodrive

Posted on 2023-02-14, 22:33

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by davidrg

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Without knowing where the drivers on vogonsdrivers or phils computer lab came from, it might be worth trying the drivers direct(ish) from the source: https://www.zx.net.nz/mirror/www.esstech.com/ … pp/drivers.html

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Re: I found an open FTP with lots of software and drivers

Posted on 2023-02-08, 19:57

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by davidrg

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If you want you can also upload it to ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/incoming with an FTP client or rsync (ftp.zx.net.nz::incoming) and I'll see if I can make it available alongside what I've already got archived. Or I can pull it from archive.org once its uploaded there. Edit: ftp.zx.net.nz is back online (13: …

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Re: Has anyone got PC-NFS working in DOS?

Posted on 2023-02-06, 03:15

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by davidrg

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I doubt you'd need the full Lanman or MS-Net client for DOS (those suck enough conventional memory on their own without adding an NFS client on top!), you probably just need the underlying TCP/IP stack and NDIS driver for whatever NIC you're using if even that. I would have thought the PC-NFS client …

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Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up

Posted on 2023-02-05, 21:10

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by davidrg

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I think WLO was Microsoft's strategy to porting Win16 stuff to OS/2, not IBMs. At first they used it to port their own products (Word, Excel) to OS/2, and later just before the split they released a more polished beta that was a bit more flexible. According to Gordon Letwin (the lead OS/2 architect …

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Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up

Posted on 2023-02-05, 01:02

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by davidrg

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if you're interested, there is a bunch of OS/2 research going on in NCommanders discord server (https://discord.gg/V8esNah) and being documented on the associated wiki.

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Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up

Posted on 2023-02-04, 10:04

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by davidrg

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IIRC, WLO doesn't have any fancy stubs or anything like that. It's even simpler. 16bit OS/2 and Windows 3.0 use the same executable format - NE. If you try and run a 16bit windows exe on OS/2 it will load the exe, try to load all the DLLs it references just as it would with any other native OS/2 …

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Re: How to configure Nobell RPL network boot

Posted on 2023-01-24, 21:37

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by davidrg

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Ah, yes - I've done something similar. I've got a floppy disk that will boot a machine, attach to a NetWare Server, and if there is no DOS installed launch the DOS 6.22 installer (using a floppy drive emulator to mount the DOS 6.22 disk images as the installer insists on being fed disks). If there …

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Re: Dream 97PNP2 - Interesting SAM9707 prototype\sample ISA MIDI card from 2001!

Posted on 2023-01-24, 03:40

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by davidrg

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What it appears to be: Either a prototype or sample of a Windows 9x "studio" oriented MIDI card based on the Dream SAM9 7 07 synthesis chip. It came with a CD and a manual (which appears to have been printed from a document included on the CD). It is an ISA card but seems to have been made sometime …

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Re: How to configure Nobell RPL network boot

Posted on 2023-01-23, 22:29

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by davidrg

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Good to hear network booting works with Mars NWE - I never attempted it myself (though I've network booted DOS, OS/2 and Windows 95 from NetWare 4.11). If you end up networking any 386s or newer to Mars NWE, Client32 uses a lot less conventional memory which makes a lot of things much easier. …

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Re: NE2000 with a programmable MAC

Posted on 2023-01-22, 22:27

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by davidrg

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Duplicate MACs due to software or user error have been a thing. Repeatedly. That's bad. Isn't there a law that prohibites this? There should be, imho. Going by logic, modification should be prosecuted civilly and criminally. Faking a car's licensing plate isn't legal, either, after all. At least …

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Re: Digital Venturis FX5150s

Posted on 2023-01-15, 21:34

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by davidrg

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Just in case you don't already have it, these may be of interest for your FX-2: AG-R4STD-BH - Venturis FX-2 System Software CD Version 1.3, August 1997 AK-R3RTD-CA - DIGITAL Startup DISKETTE, Intel Based Systems, Disk 1 of 1 More FX-2 drivers are here: https://www.zx.net.nz/mirror/h18000.www1.hp.com …

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Re: DDLINK: Easily move files between/To/From DOS systems

Posted on 2023-01-04, 05:49

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by davidrg

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I don't suppose you've got any screenshots of ddlink anywhere? That might help illustrate some of its abilities!

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