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I'm on the hunt for the slot as I have a 512K module. Also, the original HDD died and swapped out the speakers from one that came out of a dead beats...

USB was present on many P1 boards; was it present on 486 boards? I don't recall.

Probably pre-Pentium II era, as no USB port would not be an issue otherwise. btw, if that "new USB printer" is dumb (e.g. GDI - all work done by...

So how hard is it to remove the black tray under the keys to get to the membrane? I didn't see any easy way of doing that, but I didn't want to...

See the readme.md here https://github.com/tkchia/GW-BASIC

I don't know this printer, but traditionally those vintage printers did not operate both interfaces at the same time. there were usually dipswitches...

I'm assuming this is a quad-width 11/23 with console and boot ROMs on-board, as opposed to a dual-width 11/23 and something like an MXV11...

Have you verified the extra address pin is pulled low? Alternatively you could try writing the 2K image twice to the chip so it has images in both...

Have you tried your rom under vice?

In the above, I replaced the 2K Editor ROM with a 4K ROM. Is this OK?

Computer stores were a thing for a time after the introduction of the PC. I remember the Sears computer store on El Camino in Sunnyvale (they sold...

Still looking for a head for a Disk II drive...

I was late to the Fry's thing. When I lived in Seattle people used to tell me about Fry's a lot, especially early on. I think theirs went out of...

There were also IBM keyboards that used a buckling disc, mostly found in Far East rigs.

How old is "old"? And what software is running on the old system? There's always TCP/IP printing if the system is network-connected. Wifi print...

The other complication is what "language" does the newer style printer use. Some of them support a text style language like HP PCL, but some also...

Third video is up: https://youtu.be/H1eab47qP3s Is anyone here watching these? I'd guess not. :-) - Alex

Hello again Ilpaninaro. When you say "works fine" do you mean it powers up and the green light comes on only? This is an indication that the...

If the old computer can be networked with a new computer, setting up the new computer to act as a print server and pass all printing to the USB...

I thought one of the blogs I read involved an attempt at compiling it. Let me check. https://www.os2museum.com/wp/gw-basic-source-notes/ might be a...

There indeed were rubber dome Model M keyboards. It's actually not drastically quieter than the standard buckling spring version -- the keys still...

Yes I would love to have the one with 1.44mb floppy drive but is the diskette readable/writeable from a Windows machine with a floppy drive? I do...

If it's just for testing USB converters, I'd get a Classic instead. These are cheap and can even boot System 6 from ROM. Also, they come with a FDHD...

Good thinking. I have both and they are very finicky. That's why, like you, I have a new system to play with.

40MB quantum in my mac classic works perfectly