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Today, 03:33 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Opening SyncMaster 753DF - "opening jig"?! in General Off Topic

Hmm, the same thing seems to be on eBay, but the reviews there suggest this is a home-made 3d printed tool....

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Today, 01:49 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Opening SyncMaster 753DF - "opening jig"?! in General Off Topic

Tried poking around at it a bit more today. Threw a few wedge shaped tools at it, but no luck. Poking around in it, it sounds like there is a latch...

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Today, 10:13 AM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Ibm xt 5160 in PCs and Clones

Does it work OK on another machine? That looks like a RAM fault on the video card to me.

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Today, 08:26 AM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Paradise MGC II Video Card in PCs and Clones

BTW, here are a couple of photos of the board. And the expansion ROM area visible to the computer. Unfortunately I can't read the ROMs directly as...

5 replies | 150 view(s)

Yesterday, 01:56 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Kicking around a Tava PC in PCs and Clones

Another Faraday board is on eBeh, but the seller wants an absurd amount of money: https://www.ebay.com/itm/174124329332 It sort of looks like an...

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Yesterday, 04:42 AM

SomeGuy replied to a thread ImageDisk 1.18 setup/settings help in CP/M and MP/M

48TPI/40 track disks written in an 96tpi/80 track 1.2mb drive will not be reliably readable in 360k 48tpi/40 track drives. This has to do with the...

12 replies | 282 view(s)

December 13th, 2019, 07:14 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread China to ditch all Windows PCs by 2022 in General Vintage Computer Discussions

This makes perfect sense really. Using Windows increases their dependency on the US and gives the US a way to spy on them. If it were successful...

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December 13th, 2019, 06:55 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Kicking around a Tava PC in PCs and Clones

Oh, I can't believe I missed your post! Unfortunately users with less than 10 posts are delayed for moderation here, so they don't always show up on...

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December 13th, 2019, 03:33 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread IBM 5150 motherboard revisions in PCs and Clones

I would have expected Modem7 to weigh in on this. He is usually the big expert on this sort of thing. BTW, Don't be too offended by fs5500, he...

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December 11th, 2019, 03:07 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Stepper motor problems with Panasonic JU-475 floppy drives in Vintage Computer Hardware

Pretty much, yes. It would have been better to start a new thread, as people might look at the replies, then the first post and wonder what...

16 replies | 285 view(s)

December 10th, 2019, 06:48 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Help reading floppy disks please (Info, not physically) in Later Apple (68000+ based machines - Mac, Lisa, etc.)

When dealing with standard "HD" 3.5" disks, "2.0Megabyes" is marketing bullshite. Underneath the hood, a "1.44mb" disk can hold 2MB worth of raw...

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December 10th, 2019, 06:38 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread FDC controller chip diagnostics? in Later PCs

That is a good question. Not a lot of people actually included tested 2.88mb support as the drives were very uncommon. A clone 386/486 was not likely...

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December 10th, 2019, 04:41 AM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Microsoft reeeeaaaallly wants to stamp out local user accounts in General Off Topic

Wow. That is evil. It is insanely dumb for anyone to use a remote account - depending on the very existence of Microsoft. Microsoft taking away...

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December 8th, 2019, 11:45 AM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Stepper motor problems with Panasonic JU-475 floppy drives in Vintage Computer Hardware

Check the power getting to the drives. Try an alternate power supply. Since both started doing this at the same time, this seems likely. I have...

16 replies | 285 view(s)

December 7th, 2019, 07:55 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Possible to install "UNDELETE" or similar to older DOS? in Software

I'd recommend Norton Utilities 4.5. The undelete functionality is built in to the NU.EXE program. Do NOT copy or write anything to the hard disk...

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December 7th, 2019, 02:31 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread ImageDisk 1.18 setup/settings help in CP/M and MP/M

Always set the BIOS to match the actual drive installed. ImageDisk does not really care much about what BIOS or DOS thinks the drive is anyway. ...

12 replies | 282 view(s)

December 7th, 2019, 02:28 AM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Sierra original 720K floppies (KQ1, LSL1) in PCs and Clones

Compatibility issues with himem.sys were not all that uncommon. Some motherboards did require special support built in to himem. Just glancing at the...

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December 5th, 2019, 06:57 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Walmart has antique computer parts in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

You have obviously never met my mother. And if you ever do, never eat anything she gives you. She will swear it is still good because it's been in...

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December 5th, 2019, 05:46 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Walmart has antique computer parts in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

The walmart near me is nasty, very ghetto. Bare concrete floors, the same 20 or so songs on the overhead speakers, never have prices labeled...

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December 4th, 2019, 12:28 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread HP Enterprise SSDs stop after 32K hours in General Off Topic

You mean this isn't normal? That is about the maximum of how long modern electronics producers think a product should last before the cowsumer must...

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December 2nd, 2019, 12:35 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Paradise MGC II Video Card in PCs and Clones

Mine does not have an RCA composite out, only the header. But the manual does say it can output composite on Pin 7 of the RGB port when composite...

5 replies | 150 view(s)

December 2nd, 2019, 12:32 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread HD on 3.5" DD floppies--DON'T DO IT! in Vintage Computer Hardware

Chuck, out of curiosity, what brands of disks were these that experienced the failures? Were there any known issues with how they were stored? ...

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December 2nd, 2019, 03:48 AM

SomeGuy replied to a thread disabling text correction in General Off Topic

You don't control cell phones. Cell phones control you.

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December 1st, 2019, 06:12 PM

SomeGuy started a thread Paradise MGC II Video Card in PCs and Clones

I acquired a rather interesting video card the other day - a ~1985 Paradise "Modular Graphics Card" II CGA/Mono card. It is primarily a CGA card, and...

5 replies | 150 view(s)

December 1st, 2019, 05:09 AM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Request: Relax the restrictions on photo uploading and processing in Vintage Computer Forum Support

I think I have run in to that problem before. If I recall correctly, that happens if one links directly to the image and omits the automatically...

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November 30th, 2019, 12:41 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Walmart has antique computer parts in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

Walmart.com has not been a web site for their store in ages. It turned in to a multi-vendor portal like Amazon or eBay. So there is all kinds of...

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November 29th, 2019, 03:31 PM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Opening SyncMaster 753DF - "opening jig"?! in General Off Topic

Bump. Don't all answer at once now. :p So I retired the monitor mentioned above a few years back due to too much CRT burn-in, and hunted down...

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November 29th, 2019, 08:09 AM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Request: Relax the restrictions on photo uploading and processing in Vintage Computer Forum Support

Just another possibility - might consider having a vcfed.org specific image/file hosting server. Would be a little more of a hassle, but that seems...

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November 29th, 2019, 06:24 AM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Request: Relax the restrictions on photo uploading and processing in Vintage Computer Forum Support

Is this even configurable in the forum software? BTW, the limitations the last time I tested are a maximum file size, for any file type, of 99K. ...

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November 29th, 2019, 05:34 AM

SomeGuy replied to a thread Sierra original 720K floppies (KQ1, LSL1) in PCs and Clones

I don't know about Sierra's copy protection, but some could take different code paths if they detect different kinds of machines. What year were...

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