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October 20th, 2020, 08:24 PM

compaqportableplus replied to a thread Where to find an IBM ThinkPad for a reasonable price? in Vintage Computer Items Wanted

ThinkPads can certainly be expensive sometimes. I do see the more common ones (such as the 360, 750/755, 380, etc) go farily reasonable from time to...

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October 18th, 2020, 04:25 PM

FazzaGBR replied to a thread Best Way To Format and Test 200+ 3.5" Floppy Disks in Vintage Computer Hardware

Thanks for the prompt reply - not used FormatQM before so I've learnt something new today :) I can only find the shareware version of FormatQM I...

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October 18th, 2020, 12:57 PM

FazzaGBR started a thread Best Way To Format and Test 200+ 3.5" Floppy Disks in Vintage Computer Hardware

I've recently won a joblot of random floppy disks from eBay, some have software on I want to keep, some have software and files on them that I don't...

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October 18th, 2020, 03:03 AM

compaqportableplus replied to a thread Company management using Windows 2000 in 2020 in General Vintage Computer Discussions

That is really cool! Love seeing old hardware and software still in use. Windows 2000 rocks! :)

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October 13th, 2020, 07:23 PM

compaqportableplus replied to a thread Best DOS version for XT clone? in PCs and Clones

You can get a “plain” (non-Compaq branded) version of 3.31. That’s what I run on my IBM 5150 with dual 60MB RLL hard drives. :)

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October 11th, 2020, 04:30 AM

compaqportableplus replied to a thread NEC Multisync 3D - Too much brightness over time in Other

Yes, definitely caps. That's a damn nice monitor too, so it's definitely worth fixing.

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October 8th, 2020, 03:09 AM

compaqportableplus replied to a thread Best DOS version for XT clone? in PCs and Clones

I use DOS 3.30 or 3.31 on my XTs. For me, it has the best balance of authenticity and functionality. But, as others have said, you can really use...

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October 7th, 2020, 01:49 AM

compaqportableplus replied to a thread Apricot Xen in Vintage Computer Items Wanted

Really cool system! I really like that pic of the complete setup in the OP with the telephone option! I also really dig that they have Windows 1.x...

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October 6th, 2020, 05:10 PM

compaqportableplus replied to a thread TI TravelMate 3000 restoration in Texas Instruments

The other TravelMate I got did indeed have another 2MB of RAM, so mine now has the full 6MB! Here's a pic of the ram sockets all full: ...

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October 2nd, 2020, 05:51 AM

compaqportableplus replied to a thread TI TravelMate 3000 restoration in Texas Instruments

Okay, so here's what the power connector looks like: Pretty happy with it. The empty cutout for the modem was perfect, as I didn't have to...

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October 1st, 2020, 09:44 PM

compaqportableplus replied to a thread Zenith SupersPort ZFL-184-01 : convert to XT-CF? in Handhelds/Portables

Highly unlikely. You would have to literally create a custom IDE interface for the laptop. It could probably be done, but it’d be a lot of work. ...

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October 1st, 2020, 05:31 PM

compaqportableplus replied to a thread TI TravelMate 3000 restoration in Texas Instruments

Got the power supply mod all done. Works great. Now I’m changing some of the caps in the laptop as preventative maintenance. I don’t have them all on...

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