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Today, 04:23 AM

tipc replied to a thread Advice--best P4 heatsink in General Off Topic

You could always get a water cooler. I have Corsair? unit nib if anyone is interested.

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Today, 04:20 AM

nc_mike replied to a thread 386/486 Hybrid board in Later PCs

Is that a MOB that would fit in an XT chassis work with the original power supply?

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Today, 04:19 AM

MauriceH replied to a thread Piccolo RC702 8inch FFD -Boot Problem CP/M in Minis and Mainframes

After just lot of trying I found out that the mode In 22DSK142 is DEC3- VT-180 SSDD 48TPI 5,25 Can read the directory, so far so good, also could...

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Today, 04:14 AM

jhhoward replied to a thread Video output over parallel port? in Vintage Computer Hardware

The machines I were thinking of only have CGA graphics so it would be 16K rather than VGA's 64K. (Plus any video registers) I was considering that...

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Today, 03:51 AM

ldkraemer replied to a thread Help with 8 inch floppy YE-DATA YD-174D in PCs and Clones

Fran, Sorry I missed those pictures of the jumpers in the corners of the PCB. And I assumed the red Lines were added Jumpers. Thanks for clearing...

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Today, 03:45 AM

Al Kossow replied to a thread RX02 for QUniBone is ready ... now media questions in DEC

As of this week, there is now another set of DY images in bits/DEC/mixed_media/rx02

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Today, 03:21 AM

Al Kossow replied to a thread Advice--best P4 heatsink in General Off Topic

they exist, i'm looking for one as well for a board I just bought that came without one http://bitsavers.org/projects/478heatsink

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Today, 03:20 AM

MauriceH replied to a thread RX02 for QUniBone is ready ... now media questions in DEC

If you can emulate RX02 that would be great. Some efforts are made to read REAL RX02 floppy's, but as those are a mix of FM and MFM, that a normal...

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Today, 03:05 AM

daver2 replied to a thread Epson Fx86e in CP/M and MP/M

The manual states CR, but you will still need to output a LF yourself (unless you have the appropriate DIP switch set). Check the words in Appendix A...

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Today, 02:50 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread Video output over parallel port? in Vintage Computer Hardware

For text, this might work, but you could just use the serial port and terminal emulation for that. Graphics? No way. Not only too slow (for a...

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Today, 02:42 AM

jhhoward started a thread Video output over parallel port? in Vintage Computer Hardware

I have some old DOS based laptops which have monochrome LCD screens but no video output port. Has anyone ever tried making something to output video...

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Today, 02:30 AM

Joerg Hoppe started a thread RX02 for QUniBone is ready ... now media questions in DEC

Hi all, after RX01 now also the RX02 drive is emulated in UniBone + QBone. The RX211+RX02 combo passes the ZRXF and ZRXD diags, and boots...

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Today, 01:14 AM

carlos12 replied to a thread Looking for fast Turbo C 2.01 screen copy routine for CGA graphics in Vintage Computer Programming

I just made another test using the array instead of the pointer+malloc and it also works fine for me. There are the commands I used for compiling,...

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Today, 12:18 AM

carlos12 replied to a thread Looking for fast Turbo C 2.01 screen copy routine for CGA graphics in Vintage Computer Programming

I think the problem is the array is too big. With such a massive amount of data (for the IBM PC proportions :p) is preferable using pointers and...

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Yesterday, 11:24 PM

tipc replied to a thread What are the top 10 rarest vintage computer bits you own? in Your Vintage Computer Collections

Haven't powered them in years. Couldn't tell you. I just cringe to think I nearly gave ~1/2 dozen away years ago. And I won't be powering them...

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Yesterday, 11:18 PM

falter replied to a thread What are the top 10 rarest vintage computer bits you own? in Your Vintage Computer Collections

Do they power up to a black or solid colour screen? That's what both of mine do.

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Yesterday, 11:17 PM

tipc replied to a thread Advice--best P4 heatsink in General Off Topic

I'm nosey.

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Yesterday, 11:09 PM

Chuck(G) replied to a thread Advice--best P4 heatsink in General Off Topic

Tape controller. Don't see what this has to do with anything.

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Yesterday, 11:02 PM

tipc replied to a thread Advice--best P4 heatsink in General Off Topic

That tells us a lot.

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Yesterday, 10:56 PM

retro-pc_user replied to a thread OEMs & clones on eBay (continuous listings) in Vintage Computer Auctions

8088 Compaq Portable 1 (dual FDD): https://www.ebay.com/itm/294043909561 8088 Compaq Portable Plus (single FDD, 10MB HDD):...

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Yesterday, 10:54 PM

discolando replied to a thread Looking for fast Turbo C 2.01 screen copy routine for CGA graphics in Vintage Computer Programming

I spun up a quick project for this: https://github.com/discolando/cgatest It *almost* works, but as you can see in the screenshot in the repo,...

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Yesterday, 10:53 PM

tipc started a thread Cheap older style uAtx cases in Off Topic Marketplace

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rosewill-Micro-ATX-Mini-Tower-Computer-Case-with-Dual-Fans-FBM-01/381043265882?epid=21027050837&hash=item58b7f2d15a:g:VHMAAOS...

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Yesterday, 10:52 PM

Chuck(G) replied to a thread Advice--best P4 heatsink in General Off Topic

Interface card of my own design. The other slot is empty.

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Yesterday, 10:42 PM

tipc replied to a thread Advice--best P4 heatsink in General Off Topic

What's plugged into the Isa slots?

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