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So for Xmas I got myself this C4P system from its original owner. Looks great, lots of manuals, etc. Same guy I got the tapes from. The...

Is there any reason to run anything older than 6.22 on an IBM PS2 model 30? Does it run faster with older DOS versions? For nostalgia, I probably...

How would you categorize your involvement and philosophy with regard to the preservation of vintage computers and their components? For the...

My old radioshack special from 15 years ago has about had it. Just a run of the mill standard non temperature adjustable. What do you guys use? ...

Let me start off by saying I just recently discovered this site and am a newbie here, so apologies if I posted this in the wrong category or...

I know the Tandy 2000 used an 80186 CPU running at 8Mhz. I am just curious how a Tandy 1000 SL with an 8Mhz NEC V30 would compare performance wise....

Sorry if this was discussed somewhere but I could not find it. Lo-tech (for anyone reading this and not knowing) is the designer of the XT-CFv3...

Went today to old school building in Varkaus, Finland. Building is going to be demolished next week and they were giving away all furnitures and...

Not sure if this is a scam or a mistake or something else: ...

I have the boards from an IBM 3270 PC (type 5271). The mainboard has a lot of bodge wires. Reading the Byte review, it's hinted that the mainboard...

Have a 386 and a big 80 gig drive on it (using xtide) can do 5 primary 2 gig partitions fat 16. I could like just for fun to have drdos freedos and...

I've worked out how to get windows updates for W2K and later, but updates for NT and 98/SE still eludes me. Firstly, are there any updates...

I’m waiting for the arrival of a GoteK SFR1M44-U100K USB drive from China http://www.gotekemulator.com/ It will replace the 5.25” drive that...

Spent several hours examining my IBM ps2/model 30 and came to a conclusion, that unfortunately, the hard drive is busted. Initially I thought it...

Chuffed by the resuscitation of a Model 100 and a Model 102 I have just acquired a Model 4. Only two problems: It doesn't light (reportedly) and I...

Now that I've gotten past my SCL issue, I've been trying to boot XXDP on my 11/05 and running into problems. I'm using tu58em and a minimal XXDP...

Just got a brand new Tandy Cordless Mouse I wamted to start using but the barrel battery inside leaked pretty badly. I think I can save it but is...

I just got a Model 3 in decent shape but when I turned it on the screen was in 32x16 car mode and break/reset did nothing. When I unplugged the...

The Tandy 1000 TX I have is populated with 16 Micron MT1259-15 256Kx1 150ns and 4 Micron MT4067-15 64Kx4 150ns DRAM chips. I added 4 64Kx4 120ns...

Title of a New York Times business special section I was trying to think of anything technically exciting about the 2010's, and I couldn't think...

Hi got this Televideo 386 system post to a banner about entering setup and says "tele-386" search for the model and can't find any info. Anyone...

Hello, I'm poking around with my Atex PDP-11/34 and am trying to understand why there is no output to the serial port. I power on the machine and...

Hey, I got a pretty good deal on a Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh from the original owner. He told me he'd gotten it a few years after the release...

Greetings all, I just finished restoring/rebuilding an IBM Tandon TM100-2A 5.25 floppy drive and would like to test this drive in an IBM 5150....

Bought one as a prop for a project I am doing (will be using via serial cable). The seller has none listed so I contacted him directly via an Ebay...

Did IBM make an external floppy drive for the 5150 or 5160? I have looked all over the internet and cannot find what one would have looked like. I...

...have been found and are available as scans! In fact the entire Tech reference manual was found, but it is many pages.

My 5170 has a 30MB MFM drive in it with an original IBM controller. I think it is MFM. It is 30MB, but I'd like to have a little more internal...

Back in high school over 30 years ago I had a daisy wheel typewriter, and I recall a removable panel being on it's side which looked like it could...

For all you CP/M folks that use 22DISK, Teledisk, Imagedisk. and cpmtools (w/libdsk) to access Images of your various Floppy's there is another way...