Re: Installing a DOS packet driver for Intel PRO/100 NIC

Posted on 2019-10-22, 22:09

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by mbbrutman

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Try this page: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/50473/Intel-PRO-100-Adapter This is where I got Win3.11 drivers, but there is nonpacket driver there unless I’m missing something My bad - I think it my older age I remembered getting my Windows XP drivers from there, not the DOS packet …

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Re: Installing a DOS packet driver for Intel PRO/100 NIC

Posted on 2019-10-22, 18:00

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by mbbrutman

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Try this page: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/5047 … PRO-100-Adapter

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Re: Installing a DOS packet driver for Intel PRO/100 NIC

Posted on 2019-10-22, 17:39

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by mbbrutman

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I would look for newer packet drivers from Intel. I know they were distributing them not too long ago. (Yep ... DOS support. On relatively modern hardware.)

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Re: Posting Challenge-Oldest Browser, OS and hardware.

Posted on 2019-10-03, 05:24

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by mbbrutman

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Just to follow up - gdjacobs hit my PCjr at the perfect time and I was able to catch the offending request. The incoming request from Arena was over 1KB in size just for the request; the header where it says what it will accept was extremely long and full of obsolete file types/associations that no …

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Re: Posting Challenge-Oldest Browser, OS and hardware.

Posted on 2019-10-02, 05:18

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by mbbrutman

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On second thought I will set up the web server on the PCjr; I will ping you back later this week when it is ready so we can get a good trace.

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Re: Posting Challenge-Oldest Browser, OS and hardware.

Posted on 2019-10-02, 04:48

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by mbbrutman

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I looked at the log but it didn't give me anything useful. I can see a 400 error, but I can't tell if that came from the mTCP web server or if that is an error being generated internally by the browser. In particular I want to see the actual request that it sends. I can get that if the web server …

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Re: Posting Challenge-Oldest Browser, OS and hardware.

Posted on 2019-10-01, 16:39

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by mbbrutman

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What kernel was that gdjacobs? An RT build of 4.19. As I said, it's a chroot. I was going to load Arena, but your webserver must use a version of HTTP that's too new for it. I'll see if I can find a viable copy of NCSA Mosaic. Something is probably wrong on your end. The mTCP HTTP Server supports …

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Re: mTCP updates coming soon: Send me your bug reports

Posted on 2019-09-23, 00:35

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by mbbrutman

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I love your work! Thank you first of all for all of this! I would like to see ZModem protocol in the telnet program as well. There are many BBSes, that do not support other protocols for file transfers unfortunately and therefore make the combination with mTCP's telnet program useless for download/ …

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Re: mTCP updates coming soon: Send me your bug reports

Posted on 2019-09-23, 00:18

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by mbbrutman

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Grzyb wrote: I've only found one annoyance: FTP client doesn't accept empty password. I've fixed that for the next version. It was surprisingly difficult to figure out how to create a user with no password on a modern Linux machine. 😀

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VCF Pacific Northwest 2020: March 21st and 22nd!

Posted on 2019-09-16, 05:04

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by mbbrutman

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(We're doing it again!) VCFed.org is pleased to announce Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2020! We will be at Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle Washington on Saturday March 21st and Sunday March 22nd, 2020. What's a Vintage Computer Festival? It's a weekend of hanging out with like …

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mTCP updates coming soon: Send me your bug reports

Posted on 2019-09-02, 19:40

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by mbbrutman

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(The last time I did this here in January it went negative. Let's try one more time ... There is a thread over at vcforum if you'd rather chip in there ...) I have not released an updated mTCP since July 2015. I've got a few bug fixes that I want to distribute, so I'm overdue for for another …

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Re: Anyone here using an MFM drive in an XT-class system?

Posted on 2019-08-24, 04:08

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by mbbrutman

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maxtherabbit wrote: mTCP is the gold standard, if you have a slot for a NIC anything less is really just inferior Let's not get carried away 😉

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Re: VCF West is this weekend in Mountain View, CA

Posted on 2019-08-06, 16:41

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by mbbrutman

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Security was good. You can count on that. Besides the Apple 1s we had a lot of other great things to look at and touch: Quake running on several different architectures, including a PowerPC AIX workstation The IBM PC family (including a PCjr!) TACOBOT: A homebrew computer running an arcade style …

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VCF West is this weekend in Mountain View, CA

Posted on 2019-07-31, 14:27

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by mbbrutman

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Like vintage computers, replicas, and new projects? Then we have another VCF event for you! VCF West will be this Saturday and Sunday (August 3rd and 4th) at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Here are some things to look forward to: The Atari 400/800 computers on Atari's 40th …

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Re: LAN or TCP/IP with Win 3.11 (NOT WFW)

Posted on 2019-07-30, 00:00

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by mbbrutman

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Then please get a screenshot when it happens. If you are receiving a file and you can't open the file because the filename is bad or if you can't complete a write to the file due to disk error, out of space, etc. you will get a "550 Filesystem" type error. It has been like this for years. The …

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Re: LAN or TCP/IP with Win 3.11 (NOT WFW)

Posted on 2019-07-29, 19:19

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by mbbrutman

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That's kind of a blanket request - what did you specifically run into? FTP doesn't transmit the size of the file up front, so the FTP server can't know if a specific upload is going to run out of disk space. It should handle running out of disk space correctly though - terminating the transfer with …

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Re: LAN or TCP/IP with Win 3.11 (NOT WFW)

Posted on 2019-07-28, 17:54

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by mbbrutman

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Preserving the timestamp requires a server feature called MFMT - I'll look into adding it.

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Re: Moving data between an old computer and a new one

Posted on 2019-07-15, 19:55

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by mbbrutman

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I think that networking is the way to go, but that also assumes that a network card is installed. I wouldn't build a machine without a network card, but for somebody who doesn't have one yet you still have to go through that step. Zip disks are another nice solution. Yes, I know about the click of …

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Re: IBM PC Jr - aka, the basket-case

Posted on 2019-07-07, 03:58

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by mbbrutman

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It is very much a DOS machine; just a more limited one. By default the machine allocates 16KB to the video buffer. On a 128KB machine that leaves 112KB free. If you boot DOS 2.1 (which was designed for the PCjr) you get 87KB of free space in RAM. That was adequate for the expectations of 1984. …

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Re: IBM PC Jr - aka, the basket-case

Posted on 2019-07-06, 20:44

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by mbbrutman

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Quick answers: The only way you are going to add a clock accessible at I/O port 0x70 is to use the sidecar bus. The modem slot and memory slot don't have the pins you need available. The memory is shared and the memory window can be moved around. The memory drivers move the video memory down into …

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