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Hello! New user, first post... thank you, in advance for reading! I came a cross a "FREE" craigslist posting for an old computer. I wasn't...

So thanks to Thomas Raguso, I finally got my hands on a Mindset keyboard yesterday (which came with another Mindset..). So I thought I'd just...

I have three apple Imagewriter II printers, and Id like to sell two of them. I have a stack of NOS black ribbon cables and I thought I had one sealed...

I'm writing my own BASIC from scratch in 8088 assembly. The editor, the way the lines are stored and can be listed again seems to work fine. The next...

Hi, I've found a number of suggestions for how to get sound out of my PET 2001-8. The easiest one I found on this VCFed archive. Here's a quick...

I bought this wonderful system off Craigslist a few weeks ago from someone who worked at Mostek in the early 80s as a product manager. He was given...

I recently bought a generic IBM AT power supply (DK Computers) to replace my failing IBM 5150 power supply. The problem is that the motherboard...

My Seagate ST-225 in my 5162 just died on me. I have no idea why. It worked for one second, turned off the machine, turned it back on and it was...

I've been playing with the beta on Linux and it's pretty fast. Seems to be based on Chromium. Curious about other impressions. https://brave.com

Yesterday I powered up my PC6300 to find the display scrambled, as though horizontal or vertical sync were lost. All I could see were random...

What are your thoughts? Is one vendor's any better then another's? Enlighten me. I've used this original off white Microsoft wir3d unit for a long...

What are the pros and cons of a factory unlocked phones? So far all I can see is not having a lot of vendor specific crap preloaded. And maybe that's...

Hi all, I've got original copies of KQ1 and LSL1 on 720k floppy. I've noticed when I dump them via Kryoflux there are bad sectors on tracks 78 on...

I have a home made 8080 CPM 2.2 machine, with 2 eight inch floppy disk drives. All the circuits and boards are of my own design and manufacture. I...

I acquired an AT&T PC6300 which is an XT-class machine, a rebranded Olivetti M24, in essence, and recently received timely and sage advice from...

Not strictly vintage, but I wanted to share the MAME Arcade Cabinet I built over the summer, currently run by a Raspberry Pi 2 running RetroPie. ...

Mine was trashing a pristine iMac G3 because I couldn't be bothered trying to replace the dead hard drive. I'm still mad at myself about that.

Hello, I tried connect my ST-4053 to IBM AT (type 3 board). First problem - ok this disk is not supported by IBM BIOS, its 1024/5/17 and this CHS...

I just received in the mail a piece of computer equipment with enough mass that it just doesn't be dropped on the floor. It arrived wrapped in bubble...

Inspired by the Lo-Tech 1MB RAM board which is great for adding UMBs to XT class systems, I set out to design a 16 bit version for AT class systems....

I came across a compaq prolinea 5100e and need help. Before ibstart repairing/restoring i want to know if amyone has the recovery disk files or knows...

What language/vendor was it written in ... how many lines of code ... how long did it take you'll ... how many cycles of revision before it was...

I recently acquired a VT-102 in good working condition. I was thinking about connecting it to a Pi running a PDP emulator but I think some level...

Does anyone have any info. how to read this paper tape? It was punched in White Sands, NM in 1969. I was told it is 8 bit, but not ascII. Im not...

Hi, looking for some help to figure out where to start with a problem. My sort of XT compatible Zenith Z171 works well with MSDOS 3.3. However...

Because this forum processes all photo attachments and inline images to JPEG at a very small resolution, the end result is that the forum's use of...

I've had this Dell Precision 620 for some time and decided to get it running again. I did a clean install of Windows 2000 and it runs but there are...

Hi all, I'd like to introduce a project I've been working on for a couple of months now. Tentatively called the ROMulator, it's a RAM/ROM...

Why is it always winter when a car breaks down. My polo has suffered a rear brake drum failure. Bloody thing looks as if its been partially seized...

Talk is about TYPE 2 AT motherboard with 6 MHz CPU, 13.8" x 9.4", BIOS dated on 06/10/85 and 1 bank of 512 KB So...What is wrong with this...