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Today, 05:00 PM

Patrick Bureau replied to a thread Miniscribe Model 3650 "error" in Vintage Computer Hardware

I guess I had failed to mention the 3 days of troubleshooting I performed on it, and yes it spins, just the internal sensor is buggered, no worries...

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Today, 05:22 AM

Patrick Bureau replied to a thread Leading Edge Model D video output ? in PCs and Clones

thank you to dalforth to pointing me into a source of motherboard descriptive that had my system listed. (good web site btw) ...

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Today, 04:45 AM

Patrick Bureau replied to a thread TRS Model 3 power cord replacement in Vintage Computer Hardware

It is easy enough while your there you can do either two things, replace the current cord with a Home deport power cord (look in electrical you will...

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Today, 04:31 AM

Patrick Bureau started a thread Miniscribe Model 3650 "error" in Vintage Computer Hardware

So I have miniscribe model 3650, basically, when performing the debug low-level formatting I get error 80, so I slapped a LED on it and a blinking...

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Today, 04:21 AM

Patrick Bureau started a thread Leading Edge Model D video output ? in PCs and Clones

Does anybody own a "Leading Edge Model D"? I am looking for documentation on what the mainboard video outputs are, I know one is monochrome and...

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January 18th, 2021, 08:08 PM

Patrick Bureau replied to a thread Z'DOS Model I & III on eBay in Tandy/Radio Shack

I grabbed it. will be archiving disk and manual on arrival

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January 16th, 2021, 04:36 AM

Patrick Bureau replied to a thread What exactly is this?! in Tandy/Radio Shack

answer found in a review in the magazine: ANTIC VOL. 3, NO. 3 / JULY 1984 RM1000 RADIO MODEM Macrotronics, Inc. 1125 N. Golden State Rivd.,...

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January 16th, 2021, 04:25 AM

Patrick Bureau replied to a thread Why does TRS-80 Model III/4 corrupt inserted disks on power-on/off? in Tandy/Radio Shack

its can do it because even at the time TRS-80 recognized this very fact in the user manual (as most people no one reads it before turning on their...

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December 31st, 2020, 08:03 PM

Patrick Bureau replied to a thread Question about FreHD Auto Boot Rom in Tandy/Radio Shack

of course, you can run FREHD from a model 1 look right here http://members.iinet.net.au/~ianmav/trs80/emulator.htm

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December 29th, 2020, 04:26 PM

Patrick Bureau replied to a thread Copyrights trademarks etc in Tandy/Radio Shack

so instead of making T-Shirts saying "Radio Shack", we just need to make them that say "kcahS oidaR" so it only says radio shack in a mirror :)

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December 29th, 2020, 06:34 AM

Patrick Bureau replied to a thread Copyrights trademarks etc in Tandy/Radio Shack

well, it would seem the first action of the owners of radio shack is to find trademarks infringements, put an end to them, I had this little "radio...

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December 26th, 2020, 08:23 PM

Patrick Bureau replied to a thread Leading Edge Model "D" in PCs and Clones

well, it ended being the MFM bios controller, I swapped it out for another and error stopped happening.

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December 24th, 2020, 10:29 AM

Patrick Bureau replied to a thread Leading Edge Model "D" in PCs and Clones

Could it be just a VGA vs MFM controller conflict? (trying to source an MDA to VGA converter to use the onboard video.) I did find this......

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