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January 11th, 2021,
09:48 AM
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Has a game ever used the IBM 5151's "long" P39 phosphor to get around charset limits?
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PCs and Clones
As an aside, you could use a Hercules RamFont card to redefine characters to look like anything you wanted:
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January 6th, 2021,
06:07 AM
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The Compaq Deskpro 8086, finally!
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Congrats! I too am a big fan of older Compaq desktops!
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January 2nd, 2021,
09:43 AM
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WTG: Commodore 64 software
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Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade
I bought a bunch of Commodore 64 software off a local guy and about half of it is what I am calling bad. Either the disk has deteriorated, doesn't...
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December 31st, 2020,
04:07 PM
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2 Osborne Computers - Beige & Gray need a new home
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PM sent.
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December 30th, 2020,
12:16 PM
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Any fix ot improve slighty warped 5.25 floppies?
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General Vintage Computer Discussions
I've some TDK ones that are slight curved vertically if that makes sense. If you put them on a table, the top and bottom would touch and the middle...
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December 30th, 2020,
11:54 AM
alank2
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Tandy CM-2 w/broken mainboard
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Vintage Computer Hardware
Why not try to short the anode under the suction cup just to be safe? Screwdriver with some sort of jumper connected to it to ground with protective...
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December 26th, 2020,
04:29 PM
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My first Apple computer
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It was the worst experience with a seller on eBay that I've ever had. Despite the plug problem, I was told it was essentially my fault as it works...
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December 25th, 2020,
04:56 PM
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A little Christmas: unboxing the SX-64
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Commodore
Wow, that is amazing. Part of the fun is getting it working!
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December 25th, 2020,
04:47 PM
alank2
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Versions of Apple II Pascal vs. USCD Pascal
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Early Apple (I, ][, ///, etc.)
It is fun to play around with. I was having significant trouble getting it to compile anything until I saw a document about booting disk 3, then...
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December 25th, 2020,
10:38 AM
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Versions of Apple II Pascal vs. USCD Pascal
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Early Apple (I, ][, ///, etc.)
I'm playing around with it, but there are so many different versions. Does anyone have any comparison/feedback? I read something like the Apple...
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December 24th, 2020,
06:43 AM
alank2
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A little Christmas: unboxing the SX-64
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Commodore
Very cool! Let's see some YouTube video of it powering up (if you can!)!!!
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December 24th, 2020,
06:41 AM
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
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Merry Christmas!!!!!
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December 23rd, 2020,
03:17 PM
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My first Apple computer
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Early Apple (I, ][, ///, etc.)
I made up an ADTPro cable today and wow does that work nice. Bootstrapped an ADTPro disk over and can boot that directly now.
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December 22nd, 2020,
01:32 PM
alank2
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Compaq push button drive problems...
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Later PCs
Thanks for the idea NeXT - that may explain what is happening perfectly. I could see both drives having bad caps and it leading to this. I tried to...
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December 22nd, 2020,
09:23 AM
alank2
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Compaq push button drive problems...
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Later PCs
Also, voltages at the drive are 5.06V and 12.45V.
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December 22nd, 2020,
08:28 AM
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Compaq push button drive problems...
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Later PCs
So I'm scratching my head on this. I have one of these push button drives in my 486 compaq deskpro M and it works perfectly. I formatted a high...
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December 21st, 2020,
04:32 PM
alank2
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My first Apple computer
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I did get the one you sent the link about - it has a metal shield in the DIN plug, but the jack on my IIc also has the metal shield. The original...
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December 21st, 2020,
12:58 PM
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My first Apple computer
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Thanks. I'm going to have to figure out a cable solution - don't have one yet because I was focused on getting it working. Power adapter came in...
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December 20th, 2020,
06:24 PM
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My first Apple computer
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It came with one disk which thankfully boots. Once booted I can run CATALOG on it and I used INIT to make another disk. How can I tell which...
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December 20th, 2020,
03:34 PM
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My first Apple computer
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It has been a pain trying to coordinate it with the sun so I can envy those UV lamps! Probably the colder temps of 40-55 deg F were not helping me...
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December 20th, 2020,
03:11 PM
alank2
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My first Apple computer
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It spend an entire day in the sun again with one more developer 40 poured in. To my eyes it didn't change much, but maybe it is subtle.
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