First post, by Jed118
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In an amazing stroke of luck, I have picked up a JUKO NEST V30 computer. A few years ago I had a motherboard of the same type, but this time I got a whole system.
I started off with 386 computers, so these machines were never familiar to me.
The 83 key keyboard it came with is kind of crap - I'll have to take it apart and see why it's acting the way it does (pressing "enter" throws random characters into the prompt - really hard to use). I had a 101 key keyboard with an AT/XT switch out back and it works great. I'm looking into getting a Model F for it.
It's severely yellowed - newer CDROM for contrast:
It came with a hercules mono card, which I swapped out for an ATI EDGE 8 bit VGA/EGA video card
It booted straight into DOS 3.3 off the 42 Mb IDE drive, with high density floppies-
It had some utilities on the drive, so I ran an old version of Sysinfo:
It had PC GLOBE on it, from the communist times:
I had to run the setup to get it to work in VGA mode.
It also has Windows on it, but I can't figure out how to change that to work with VGA mode.
Questions:
1) What am I looking at here:
It is a floppy controller, and I can press ESC at POSt to re-enter the a: and b: drives (high and low densities) and that battery still holds a 3.6v charge! I'm afraid to remove the battery and relocate it - I think I will solder on another battery temporarily to relocate the barrel battery.
How do I dump that BIOS?
This is the hard disk controller - how do I get into it to change CHS values? How do I dump this BIOS?
Finally, does anyone know what version of Windows this is?
Anyone know what it takes to get this to work in VGA (or EGA) mode?
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