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As promised, here are some internal pics of the Deskpro: As you can see, I now have a serial port card and MFM hard drive/controller...

Is the Saturn Systems software distribution disks for RSX or VMS? They made it for both operating systems and it is pretty hard to find so archiving...

There was a strong motivation for integrating electronics to present a block level interface for hard disks when zoned recording started being...

When floppy drives were new, the controller hardware was expensive. Why would you waste money putting a controller on each drive in a systems, when a...

It seems like every time I have to archive a damaged Macintosh disk with my Kryoflux, I wind up trying every single drive I have to find one that...

The floppy drives for the Sam Coupe had the controller integrated into the drive and used an Euroconnector expansion socket for passing signals to...

It was eating at me not knowing so I tried it under PAL8..R PAL8 *TST4,TST4<TST4 /H .TYPE TST4.LS 0200 *200 00200 5177 ...

Nivag, I followed your suggestions and looked at the refresh counters. Initially I was having trouble getting the signals off H9 because that was...

My school had a bunch of these. After punch cards and KSR-33's, the silence, crisp text, and 300 baud (1200 baud in the admin building) speed of the...

Dave, Thanks for the advice and impetus to learn more about my new toy, the logic analyzer. The results below indicate to me that the zero page...

I knew it obtained for hard drives (lots of R&D spent on those read/write channels) but by mid-1990s, I would have thought that floppy drive channel...

There's one of those on ebay right now, but no keyboard. :( What I want most to add to my collection at the moment are an HP2640 and a Tektronix...

I've known this for literally 33 years. Thanks though.

What do you think a USB floppy is? There were also SCSI floppies as well as "floppy-ish" drives such as the LS120 or Caleb UHD units. Bottom line...

For me, the Norsk Data/Tandberg 2200 series terminals were pretty much the top of the mark in 1970s serial terminals. The keyboard on the Beehive...

I have been using the machines in the last couple of days now. I found a loose connection with one of the capacitors in my older unit, near the power...

Yea but its a dry cold. And I almost forgot :-)

Thanks for getting back to me quickly. The specific hardware I have in mind is Z80all,...

Hi, Larry. Are you using my Linux port of bin2imd? If so, no guarantees that it's working correctly. I'm reasonably confident about imdu, but the...

Tripping the breaker could be a couple of things. It could either be leakage current to ground, or it could be the inrush current of the power supply...

Nice video!

Hello Bill from New Mexico. Hope its warm there. I miss time i lived in Arizona when its cold in east like now. In fact maybe I need a 2nd place for...

Installed CivNet which has a function to restore the default desktop. Although that works fine the game freezes up when reaching the unit limit....

Boy they sure are pretty machines though, even if the keyboard is meh. Some kind of wifi modem is great with them. Saves fooling around...

Is TRSDOS source in some form available now? I was searching for "TRSDOS source" and came across this post. I'm encouraged that there are current...

Bursts of out-of-focus *could* be the flyback. Any cracks/leaks or sounds near it?