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December 8th, 2019, 03:12 PM

rittwage replied to a thread Is Windows Update for Windows XP dead now? in General Off Topic

This should be on an isolated network since years ago! However, I know I've had to work on one recently and Windows Update still worked in the last...

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December 7th, 2019, 09:39 AM

rittwage replied to a thread Anyone know what this is? Some sort of late 90's mpeg2 PCI card and daughterboard in General Off Topic

Not trying to rain on any parade too hard, but in reality something like this has very little to no value today.

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December 7th, 2019, 07:05 AM

rittwage replied to a thread What is something you regret doing? in General Vintage Computer Discussions

When I worked for a Commodore/Amiga dealer in the early 90's, we "cleaned out" the back room of 100's of C64's, 1541's, Apple II's, etc. to the...

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November 24th, 2019, 03:40 AM

SkydivinGirl replied to a thread RTC ISA 8 bits (Very Low Profile) in PCs and Clones

Thanks for sharing this project! :) Heather

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November 20th, 2019, 07:48 PM

rittwage replied to a thread Is it possible to repair a FDD head? in Vintage Computer Hardware

This is a plague on those Mitsumi heads. It's the coils... they just go bad over time. I have a stack of about 10. 3-4 of them died just in the last...

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November 17th, 2019, 06:53 PM

rittwage replied to a thread Mindset repair in Vintage Computer Hardware

I see that the machine *IS* in MAME, so you can see how it boots normally. For what that is worth... There is the diagnostic text and the setup...

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November 17th, 2019, 10:14 AM

rittwage replied to a thread Mindset repair in Vintage Computer Hardware

I've seen two other Mindsets in my travels, and both did not work in the same way yours does not (black screen, occasional video nonsense). I think...

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November 16th, 2019, 08:12 AM

rittwage replied to a thread Original Tandy 1000 no boot in Tandy/Radio Shack

QD (quad) is poorly named if it's just an 80-track 5.25" DD drive like the TM100-4. It's still "double" density, just more tracks. I mean you...

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November 16th, 2019, 07:40 AM

rittwage replied to a thread Anyone with a broken Imac G3 willing to sell parts? in Vintage Computer Items Wanted

Around here, you can't give them away. Over in Savannah they used to give away pallettes of the iMacs and eMacs for nothing if you came and got them...

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November 15th, 2019, 07:23 PM

rittwage replied to a thread For Sale: 9 Osborne 1 computers in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

I may be interested in one working one in good shape, depending on price and shipping costs.

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November 12th, 2019, 05:19 AM

rittwage replied to a thread Are the 586 architecture based Cyrix MII chips any good? What are your opinions? in Other

The bad rap was very poor FPU performance, which was starting to be a factor in games at the time.

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