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Reply 60 of 76, by waterbeesje

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Dirtbag wrote on 2020-06-19, 18:36:
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And yes, it boots from HDD, I haven't got a single floppy to go with it 🙁

@waterbeesie, ver doesnt work, but I hope the second photo answers your question.

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This seems like it is good old PC DOS 3.1, and that makes it universal. If you've got a machine with support for the right kind of floppy you can easily create a bit disk from a raw file. I like the clean looks of it!

Stuck at 10MHz...

Reply 61 of 76, by dkarguth

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I've got the 6th Tandy TRS-80 model II ever made. Not the oldest, but interesting nonetheless

"And remember, this fix is only temporary, unless it works." -Red Green

Reply 63 of 76, by adalbert

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Toshiba T3200SXC (1990). Had to replace internal power supply this year with DIY one because capacitors leaked and damaged the board. Edit: oh, and I had to replace LCD few years ago with much newer, but still electrically compatible industrial 640x480 panel. This is world's first or second laptop with active TFT color screen, but unfortunately these panels didn't last for long and all color and contrast vanished to the point it was unusable.

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And Commodore 64 (breadbin), 1983 made in Western Germany 😉

Repair/electronic stuff videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/adalbertfix
ISA Wi-fi + USB in T3200SXC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX30t3lYezs
GUI programming for Windows 3.11 (the easy way): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6L272OApVg

Reply 66 of 76, by pete8475

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Probably my old Thinkpad T42.

EDIT - Just tried to boot it up and the hitachi hard drive appears to have died. Seems like the perfect time for a compactflash upgrade. heh.

Reply 67 of 76, by Caluser2000

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1987 Redstone Computers XT Turbo 10MHz. Has TVM EGA monitor, 101 key XT keyboard, OEM Amstrad Adlib clone sound card, HD FDD controller, 1.2meg 5.25" FDD, 720k 3.5" FDD, XT-IDE card, 2.4gig BigFoot HDD, serial mouse and ehanced LPT port. Running DR Dos 6 with GeoWorks Pro 1.2 as the GUI.

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There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉

Reply 68 of 76, by Caluser2000

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Anyone won the challange yet or was there not one in the first place?

There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉

Reply 71 of 76, by Jed118

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Caluser2000 wrote on 2020-11-22, 07:00:

1987 Redstone Computers XT Turbo 10MHz. Has TVM EGA monitor, 101 key XT keyboard, OEM Amstrad Adlib clone sound card, HD FDD controller, 1.2meg 5.25" FDD, 720k 3.5" FDD, XT-IDE card, 2.4gig BigFoot HDD, serial mouse and ehanced LPT port. Running DR Dos 6 with GeoWorks Pro 1.2 as the GUI.

Nice kit. How's that BigFoot? I haven't had much luck with them over the decades (including when they were available at retail).

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Reply 72 of 76, by Caluser2000

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Jed118 wrote on 2020-11-24, 04:11:
Caluser2000 wrote on 2020-11-22, 07:00:

1987 Redstone Computers XT Turbo 10MHz. Has TVM EGA monitor, 101 key XT keyboard, OEM Amstrad Adlib clone sound card, HD FDD controller, 1.2meg 5.25" FDD, 720k 3.5" FDD, XT-IDE card, 2.4gig BigFoot HDD, serial mouse and ehanced LPT port. Running DR Dos 6 with GeoWorks Pro 1.2 as the GUI.

Nice kit. How's that BigFoot? I haven't had much luck with them over the decades (including when they were available at retail).

Thank you. It's been quite reliable and well suited to that setup. I have 5 other BigFoots with various other OSs on-OS/2 v3, SuSE Linux 7.2, Turbo Linux 6.0 and Xandros Linux 3.01. All work perfectly.

I have had two go tits up on me.

There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉

Reply 73 of 76, by Cobra42898

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oldest completely working...
TRS80 i think its a model 1 level ii,
4k of ram and cassette tape drive.

second is my tandy 1000SL, but it's sidelined until i get a new FDD for it. 8086 i believe that has.

Searching for Epson Actiontower 3000 486 PC.

Reply 74 of 76, by Jed118

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Caluser2000 wrote on 2020-11-24, 04:28:
Jed118 wrote on 2020-11-24, 04:11:
Caluser2000 wrote on 2020-11-22, 07:00:

1987 Redstone Computers XT Turbo 10MHz. Has TVM EGA monitor, 101 key XT keyboard, OEM Amstrad Adlib clone sound card, HD FDD controller, 1.2meg 5.25" FDD, 720k 3.5" FDD, XT-IDE card, 2.4gig BigFoot HDD, serial mouse and ehanced LPT port. Running DR Dos 6 with GeoWorks Pro 1.2 as the GUI.

Nice kit. How's that BigFoot? I haven't had much luck with them over the decades (including when they were available at retail).

Thank you. It's been quite reliable and well suited to that setup. I have 5 other BigFoots with various other OSs on-OS/2 v3, SuSE Linux 7.2, Turbo Linux 6.0 and Xandros Linux 3.01. All work perfectly.

I have had two go tits up on me.

Hah, I've got one in a display case that I blew the motor on - do you still have your dead ones? I'd be interested in one as long as it still spins up 😉

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Reply 75 of 76, by Caluser2000

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Jed118 wrote on 2020-11-24, 18:02:
Caluser2000 wrote on 2020-11-24, 04:28:
Jed118 wrote on 2020-11-24, 04:11:

Nice kit. How's that BigFoot? I haven't had much luck with them over the decades (including when they were available at retail).

Thank you. It's been quite reliable and well suited to that setup. I have 5 other BigFoots with various other OSs on-OS/2 v3, SuSE Linux 7.2, Turbo Linux 6.0 and Xandros Linux 3.01. All work perfectly.

I have had two go tits up on me.

Hah, I've got one in a display case that I blew the motor on - do you still have your dead ones? I'd be interested in one as long as it still spins up 😉

Long gone sorry.

There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉

Reply 76 of 76, by Caluser2000

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Asof now the oldest working computer I have is my NEC PC 8201A from 1983.

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There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉