Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-12-01, 10:35
Don't forget the 80186 accelerator card/s.
Re: please take it upon yourself to list your oldest computers
Posted on 2023-12-01, 01:36
I have a real nice Epson keyboard. I want to say it's for the oldest model.
please take it upon yourself to list your oldest computers
Posted on 2023-12-01, 01:07
I have to think ... I have a chassis and a stack of Multibus boards. Tje chassis is for.an 80286, not sure if that predates the IBM PC/AT. But maybe. (I have a IBM PC/AT also). It's kimd of weird. Maybe I have early onset dimentia. I have a Sony System 35 model 10, no keyboard. I don't focus on old. …
Re: high speed vanilla pc/xt clones
Posted on 2023-12-01, 01:02
Jo22 wrote on 2023-11-30, 06:37: Edit: Posting about differences between XTs and AT removed. It's the OP's thread, after all. If it's not wanted, then I do respect that. No worries. Have a ball. Everyone else is mucking it up:)
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-12-01, 00:59
oh it ain't over yet. You'll see.
Re: high speed vanilla pc/xt clones
Posted on 2023-11-30, 06:38
Yep. A lot of off topic stuff found it's way to the thread.
Re: high speed vanilla pc/xt clones
Posted on 2023-11-30, 05:22
As long as we're straying from the beaten path, don't leave out the model 25. And the 286 vetsions of the model 30 and 25 also I think. Oh did anyone mention the Lisa? Or the Victor Vicki? Shoot better not leave them out. They're close enough.
Re: high speed vanilla pc/xt clones
Posted on 2023-11-29, 20:38
Only means exclusive of. The presence of a turbo button defies the notion of only. A board can run atb6,8,10mhz... But not 4.77mhz.
high speed vanilla pc/xt clones
Posted on 2023-11-29, 19:00
Were there any that ran * only* above 4.77mhz?
Re: Creating 80186 Based System
Posted on 2023-11-29, 11:22
I will hear no more of this. The Compis had an 80186 and therefore is a bad-ass contraption! I'd advise you never to piss in the Mississippi. Loaded with snapper turtles and water moccassins. They bite you on yer bum and kill you. Yeah, someone at Compis llc. was spending time in a particularly …
Re: Creating 80186 Based System
Posted on 2023-11-29, 09:46
Inside the IBM PC by Peter Norton. A MUST read. There are 2 editions to my knowledge (prior to the PS\2 line). The 2nd or subsequent edition says "Revised and Expanded". I want to say you need both, as there is material in the 1st edition that isn't in the "revised". I'm not positive though. I …
generic pc/xt full page schematic
Posted on 2023-11-29, 04:42
I seem to recall their being 1. It may have been given away with an issue of TI Professional Computing. Anyone habe a clue?
ping for Adrienne Graham
Posted on 2023-11-29, 02:54
Of binarydinosaurs.co.uk I don't have Facebook. Any contact method external to that?
Re: Creating 80186 Based System
Posted on 2023-11-29, 00:57
The Nimbus was indeed available outside the UK thanks to the innovation known as air mail. I actually only had the motherboard. I wound up selling it to someone in Sweden. That someone probably disillusioned due to the Compis. We never exchanged woes. But I felt in my heart the mobo took flight and …
Re: Creating 80186 Based System
Posted on 2023-11-28, 21:04
Another obscure 80186 based system is the 80s Swedish school computer Compis. It's very much a product of its time. The politicians and state, led by the social democrats more or less uninterrupted since 40 years back then, of course knew best what the kids needed for their education, and ordered …
Re: Creating 80186 Based System
Posted on 2023-11-28, 12:03
I don't care about any of that. I think the 80188/86 is damned cool like the OP and that's what I want. Not do the same old shit...8088..8086..v20/30/40. It's been done oi! Don't talk to me about Robotrons. I get swets just thinking about it. I used to be an arcade Robotron champion. The swet would …
Re: Creating 80186 Based System
Posted on 2023-11-28, 10:23
1982 Canon AS-100 ad https://www.ebay.com/itm/114943214791 Cp/m-86 advertised as an option. I have 2 of these, but no os disks that work anymore. It's a weirdo. You had to buy blank floppies from Canon, they had.to urinate on them before use. Got to break 1 out soon.
Re: Creating 80186 Based System
Posted on 2023-11-28, 09:50
That's right. Though IBM PC compatibilty wasn't all that important in the first half of the 1980s. Originally, system makers assumed that industry kept going the CP/M way of hardware independence, so MS-DOS compatibility was considered good enough for a while. Unfortunately, things went different …
Re: Creating 80186 Based System
Posted on 2023-11-28, 08:20
https://www.ebay.com/itm/231799363235?epid=1218298058&hash=item35f85196a3:g:gggAAOSwKtlWhXp3&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0MLHDL76ByoTYapiTNQtsOVLKQWB6HXkoGECAnYa%2F%2BzHl5SmPPEpwseDCcFM113cX2%2B8N6JTUjnQ7pJzznh6dnREkhb6Juxh4KeYxZqzEfXqVtsTVI%2BBoDPP6HrUijtcTRSy6HX25oYjnZ3Cg4ENy0emOT6nmnkX8ahzlERNxTgAXTMI% …
Re: Creating 80186 Based System
Posted on 2023-11-28, 04:13
I have so many irons in the fire. But I was looking at a guy's videos whereinhe buildis a small 80c86 based system on a breadboard! Everyone should watch that. I'll find it and edit this thread. No I'm braindead. He uses an 80c88: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvyUAaRTsww
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