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Today, 10:07 AM

Shadow Lord replied to a thread QIC DC600A tapes with broken drive belts in General Vintage Computer Discussions

What "folding size" band do you use? Thanks.

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Today, 10:07 AM

dave_m replied to a thread Petsd in Commodore

OK, that would be useful. But are you able to run the Waterloo 6809 code without SuperOS9 on the SuperPet? That is, run Fortran, etc without...

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Today, 09:43 AM

maxtherabbit replied to a thread Dummy Load in PCs and Clones

they may not start or regulate properly, but I've never heard of one being actually damaged by a lack of load

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Today, 09:33 AM

pearce_jj replied to a thread Lo-tech XT-CFv3 versus Texelec's "Lo-tech ISA XT CF Adapter rev. 3" in Vintage Computer Hardware

So, I'm better late to the party than never I suppose. Re open source: Originally the intention was to provide all Lo-tech stuff completely open,...

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Today, 09:08 AM

Chuck(G) replied to a thread QIC DC600A tapes with broken drive belts in General Vintage Computer Discussions

I have my doubts--the bands are latex, not polyurethane.

30 replies | 2233 view(s)

Today, 09:02 AM

tipc replied to a thread Dummy Load in PCs and Clones

Consumer power supplies are alleged to be more forgiving, but I was of the understanding that power supplies can be damaged w/o sufficient load. I...

5 replies | 118 view(s)

Today, 09:02 AM

krebizfan replied to a thread IBM ROM BASIC alternatives? in PCs and Clones

Handheld BASIC also supported disk drives along with the RAM disk that was the primary storage. There may also have been cassette support. The BIOS...

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Today, 08:57 AM

krebizfan replied to a thread ALR RAM Expansion 16 bit ISA Card in PCs and Clones

There were a number of revisions of the Rampage card. The SIMM version I had used software to set the configuration into CMOS. But finding if there...

3 replies | 45 view(s)

Today, 08:56 AM

tipc replied to a thread Amptron PM-8600B motherboard PCI video performance Topic actions in Pentium (First generation)

I used to have an MII box, 233mhz also iirc. I can't remember where I got it for the life of me. Found it on the road maybe. It ran well. I had a...

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Today, 08:54 AM

krebizfan replied to a thread Help needed: identifying which computer was this program written for in Vintage Computer Software

Maybe reload them after placing in Zip files. That should reduce the size by 90%. I saw it was 50 MB WAV yesterday and didn't download.

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Today, 08:44 AM

Kelly G started a thread Atari 800xl SCRAM program in Vintage Computer Software

I am restoring an Atari 800xl and it has both a tape and disk drive but no programs for them. I have the manual for the game SCRAM so I am looking to...

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Today, 08:28 AM

Shadow Lord replied to a thread Dummy Load in PCs and Clones

Well I was thinking more of taking the load off all at once (i.e. if a fuse blows and load is cut off). In my very scient... errr experiment with an...

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Today, 08:28 AM

migry replied to a thread NS32000 Series Family Thread (porting TDS to a NS32016 user wire-wrap board) in Other

I noted the reply from @bakemono , which caused me to look at the NS32C032 datasheet. The PDF was searchable and I searched for idle and found some...

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Today, 08:27 AM

jasa1063 replied to a thread Amptron PM-8600B motherboard PCI video performance Topic actions in Pentium (First generation)

I replaced the Pentium MMX 233Mhz with a Cyrix MII PR300 233Mhz and got the following results: 3DMark 1.0c - 309.8 FPS Quake 640x480 - 13.9 FPS ...

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Today, 08:20 AM

MikeP replied to a thread Help with fixing Commodore 2040 Dual Floppy drive in Commodore

Hi Andy, It does look a little worn, here is a photo. I'm sure it would benefit from cleaning. What would be the best method to...

16 replies | 180 view(s)

Today, 08:16 AM

Jeck replied to a thread Intel Advanced/EV Motherboard 650294-200 Socket 7, CPU, RAM, Cache, connector in Vintage Computer Auctions

http://www.ebay.com/itm/265019917493

1 replies | 198 view(s)

Today, 08:15 AM

Jeck replied to a thread Magitronic B233 286 MAIN BOARD motherboard + FPU IIT 2C87-12 + RAM in Vintage Computer Auctions

http://www.ebay.com/itm/265028405480

2 replies | 250 view(s)

Today, 07:58 AM

tingo replied to a thread SDC-RLV12 and SCSI2SD in DEC

ArdSCSino looks neat. I knew that those blue pills could be used for almost anything.

4 replies | 118 view(s)

Today, 07:57 AM

daver2 replied to a thread MASM question--determining segment of a variable for conditional assembly in Vintage Computer Programming

The Borland Turbo Assembler supports the same syntax as the MASM assembler (according to the documentation). SEGMENT, ENDS, PARA and AT keywords...

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Today, 07:46 AM

jafir replied to a thread Writing disk images to real disks. This is largely Superbrain related but... in CP/M and MP/M

The DEC Rainbow used single sided floppies at 96tpi, for 400K, so it's certainly been done.

18 replies | 667 view(s)

Today, 07:42 AM

zippysticks replied to a thread FOR SALE: GNT 3406 paper tape punch interest - UK Only in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

Sadly it is NOT also a reader Jon.

3 replies | 76 view(s)

Today, 07:33 AM

willmurray461 replied to a thread Will trade IBM 5162 XT/286 for IBM 5170 AT in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

Might as well mention that I finally acquired an AT, so I'm not really interested in trading the 5162 anymore...

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Today, 07:33 AM

migry replied to a thread NS32000 Series Family Thread (porting TDS to a NS32016 user wire-wrap board) in Other

Thank you for the replies. I will answer the items raised shortly. Posting to this thread made me think about the problem, just like explaining a...

19 replies | 1435 view(s)

Today, 07:25 AM

tingo replied to a thread Transfering .dsk files to floppies (Tiki-100 CP/M) in CP/M and MP/M

Old thread, but still useful. Thanks! I had some images to test today: tingo@kg-core2$ cpmls -f tik2 -l...

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Today, 07:19 AM

Exceter replied to a thread Will trade IBM 5162 XT/286 for IBM 5170 AT in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

It's too bad that you're in CA or I'd make that trade. I'm always down for a road trip but that's a little far even for me.

6 replies | 653 view(s)

Today, 07:08 AM

tingo replied to a thread Writing disk images to real disks. This is largely Superbrain related but... in CP/M and MP/M

ok, the 400k format is double sided: tingo@z30b:~/personal/projects/psoc/fluxengine/tmp$ ../fluxengine read ibm -o...

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Today, 07:07 AM

tipc replied to a thread IBM ROM BASIC alternatives? in PCs and Clones

well the RE Robot brain has a floppy controller. Therefore it's interpreters naturally would have support for floppy drives. It does use a different...

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