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Geoff, everything you have done is amazing I greatly appreciate it. Seems to me that the easiest way to load it would be via the rs232. I have...

Maybe this can help: RAM expansion for the VIC-20. It could be done by piggybacking the needed ICs on top of the existing ones.

modem7, thanks for the info. It’s ironic that this machine doesn’t like V20s, because I originally bought it with plans of installing a V20. I’ve...

I don't think these are rare. I thought they were the most common model. I had so many that I lost one in someone else's divorce.

I have a couple of Indys, but it's been a long time since they were powered on. For practical use I prefer my O2+, which is a very nice computer and...

Note that the final-revision BIOS referred to in the example (repeat: example) on the pointed-to page on minuszerodegrees.net is for the IBM 5160,...

Yea, if they were local to me I would have snagged them and then posted about it instead of inviting competition. ;) What do 95's go for on ebay...

I haven't used my Model 100 recently, but when I first bought it, I used the free Desklink and Teeny software from Club 100. This made it easy to...

No way, IBM AT has loudest PC speaker ever....Maybe bigger case offer larger acoustics...

Looks like it needs power supply work to me.

A former RS franchise store is still open in my area. Most of the parts they sell are from NTE, plus old RS stock and other brands leftover from the...

I will forever wonder why the PC, XT and most clones dont have a volume control for the speaker. I dont think adding a potentiometer over a resistor...

One of the franchise stores still exists to this day in my state. I need to go visit it while it lasts. I recall going to one of the franchise...

ooo I'd like to see that! Next time you have it out a few pics would be much appreciated. Also welcome!

you lucky jerk. He told me someone local was getting them, and I instantly knew it was going to be you. I offered several hundred dollars for the...

You may have given up prematurely. I have found VLB video cards can be notoriously difficult to seat correctly. It can and has taken numerous...

I have 360K floppies formatted out to 800K that are readable (mostly because the 1.2mb drive heads are small enough to double the tracks of a 360K...

Middle of the road are early S3 chips along with CirrusLogic. ATI mach cards are also decent and if you don't care about DOS gaming at all and use...

Thanks. Will need to try and figure that out next weekend.

Yeah I dont blame you. If I was near port Jeff I'd take the ferry over

That’s very interesting. krebizfan, yes, being a 1986 model 5150, I would mostly certainly say it has the final revision BIOS.

I dunno, I have got a bunch of disks like that I made back in the early 90s. They were still mostly readable the last time I checked, although I was...

I'm not huge into gaming, so I don't need the best of the best, just something midrange-ish that can run most games from about 1990-95 fairly well....

Do you have the final BIOS? If you do, then I hope someone remembers the list of unlikely causes for V20 not working in a 5150.

I'd had an odd issue putting a V20 in a 5150 board. As I recall it wouldn't post or do anything the first time being powered up for a few minutes but...

Tridents were only marginally better than OAK, though they got a little better towards the end of their production. If you're really wanting to do...

Ok, I guess that makes sense why it wouldn't work then. The card says something about 33mhz on it. Should I post better pictures of the card and...