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Yesterday, 02:25 PM

WBST replied to a thread Tandy 3000 HD (no HD) issues in PCs and Clones

Then the video adapter is probably your next port of call. These should be initialised during POST ROM BIOS area scan.

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Yesterday, 01:40 PM

WBST replied to a thread Tandy 3000 HD (no HD) issues in PCs and Clones

Generally speaking two beeps just indicates a POST error/errors. If the RTC/CMOS battery is flat that could be the cause, date and time not set for...

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Yesterday, 09:54 AM

WBST replied to a thread SyQuest SQ100 -- 5 MB removable disk cartridge in Vintage Computer Items Wanted

Are they MO drives? Is there any "laser warning" on the drive??? I have SyJet (1.5GB) external SCSI and a SparQ (1.0GB) external parallel to SCSI...

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Yesterday, 09:42 AM

WBST replied to a thread HP Colorado T1000 vs Connor Jumbo 250/FC-20 Controler in Later PCs

What Chuck(G) said is spot on. I have early DLT hardware (<= 30GB / tape) and DAT DDS2 autoloader drives to play with. Even my Multiprise 3000...

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Yesterday, 04:47 AM

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

I suspect the Minnesota card is part of a composite video camera to VGA monitor switching component board, there looks to be an LED display at the...

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Yesterday, 02:39 AM

WBST replied to a thread Option 370 for AT in PCs and Clones

Well, 9595 not 8595.

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December 5th, 2019, 10:04 PM

WBST replied to a thread HP Colorado T1000 vs Connor Jumbo 250/FC-20 Controler in Later PCs

By the user, but it's usually a selectable option for the "set", IIRC. Floppy streamer tape drives being cheap didn't run to the expense of dual...

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December 5th, 2019, 03:21 PM

WBST replied to a thread Can someone please clarify ECC vs. Parity? in Vintage Computer Hardware

As I'd said previously, the PD encoding converged after 8MB 70ns (Parity or ECC), so quite possibly. The main concern would be reactance of...

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December 5th, 2019, 02:26 PM

WBST replied to a thread Can someone please clarify ECC vs. Parity? in Vintage Computer Hardware

I've no experience of non-IBM servers, so it's up to the user to do the research, from my point of view.

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December 5th, 2019, 01:34 PM

WBST replied to a thread Can someone please clarify ECC vs. Parity? in Vintage Computer Hardware

Well, I have a boxful of NOS IBM FRU 96F9100 16MB ECC SIMMs, if you're interested - asking £5.00 per pair plus P&P. I also have an MCA Mafia contact...

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December 5th, 2019, 01:25 PM

WBST replied to a thread Nero Burning ROM for PowerPC macs on early OS X in Other

Have you tried the Apple Store or support? It may have been a bespoke distribution.

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December 5th, 2019, 10:32 AM

WBST replied to a thread Nero Burning ROM for PowerPC macs on early OS X in Other

I can't seem to find a reference to Apple Mac support in the Wayback Machine. Do you remember the Version approximately? See here:...

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December 5th, 2019, 10:07 AM

WBST replied to a thread HP Colorado T1000 vs Connor Jumbo 250/FC-20 Controler in Later PCs

Back in the dim and distant, I started out with an IBM PS/2 ITBU (Internal Tape Backup Unit). This was basically an Irwin drive using 3M DC2000...

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December 5th, 2019, 09:56 AM

WBST replied to a thread Clearing out some IBM 4869-002 External drive boxes in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

Even so, we're not called the MAD (Microchannel Addicitive Disorder) men for nothing. ;)

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December 5th, 2019, 09:45 AM

WBST replied to a thread Clearing out some IBM 4869-002 External drive boxes in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

Any chance of even a guesstimate to ship one to me? Only asking. IBM PS/2 FDs are all jumpered Drive 1, the twist in the cable between Drive B:...

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December 5th, 2019, 01:10 AM

WBST replied to a thread Can someone please clarify ECC vs. Parity? in Vintage Computer Hardware

Ordinarily it's not obvious, visually, which SIMMs are Non-Parity, Parity, EDO (Extended Data Out), EOS or ECC SIMMs. There are a total of 5...

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December 4th, 2019, 10:54 PM

WBST replied to a thread Can someone please clarify ECC vs. Parity? in Vintage Computer Hardware

The answer is rather complex. First of all, there are 39-bit (32 data + 9 ECC) ECC 72-pin SIMMs and 40-bit (32 data + 10 ECC) ECC 72-pin SIMMs. The...

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December 4th, 2019, 01:50 PM

WBST replied to a thread Clearing out some IBM 4869-002 External drive boxes in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

That'd be the 360KB diskette drive, with the asterisk. You could probably cater for that with DOS DRIVPARM, if you could hook it up to the FDC...

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December 4th, 2019, 12:49 PM

WBST replied to a thread Utility to convert intel hex into ascii stream for sending from terminal emulator in Vintage Computer Tools

You could use a device programmer's utility to read in the Hex file and write it out as a Bin file, that ought to make it easier to separate out for...

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December 4th, 2019, 12:31 PM

WBST replied to a thread Clearing out some IBM 4869-002 External drive boxes in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

Nope, you'd need the 1.2MB FD adapter and its driver, see: http://ps-2.kev009.com/ohlandl/floppy/4869-002.html

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December 4th, 2019, 12:28 PM

WBST replied to a thread Looking for IBM PS/2 Ultimedia disks in Vintage Computer Software

Yep, as I suspected, on the https://archive.org/download/ibmultimediacd-roms/IBM_UCD_101.ISO , which is a BACKUP SET on CD, there is an OS2SE20...

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December 4th, 2019, 11:22 AM

WBST replied to a thread Looking for IBM PS/2 Ultimedia disks in Vintage Computer Software

Do you have the 8516 display, Audiovation or M-ACPA sound adapter, plus the Ultimedia Installation diskette and CD? The links you provided don't seem...

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December 4th, 2019, 10:55 AM

WBST replied to a thread Looking for IBM PS/2 Ultimedia disks in Vintage Computer Software

So, Ultimedia restore, replacing various OSes. Probably drivers, control system and suchlike. The touchscreen display and adapter are unusual, but...

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December 4th, 2019, 10:18 AM

WBST replied to a thread Clearing out some IBM 4869-002 External drive boxes in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

Well, now that surface shipping has gone the way of the Dodo, yes it can be. I've had heavier stuff shipped that way in the dim past.

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December 4th, 2019, 10:08 AM

WBST replied to a thread Clearing out some IBM 4869-002 External drive boxes in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

No, I don't need the drive, that I can source, just the 110-230 VAC PSU and enclosure, internal cables what have you.

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December 4th, 2019, 03:52 AM

WBST replied to a thread Clearing out some IBM 4869-002 External drive boxes in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

Any chance of shipping one to the U.K.? I have the paltry 4869-001 complete with PS/2 passthru adapter and FD bay thingie, plus the extra FDC adapter...

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December 4th, 2019, 03:10 AM

WBST replied to a thread Looking for IBM PS/2 Ultimedia disks in Vintage Computer Software

Do you have a DOS system with 3.5" floppy drive and a supply of HD diskettes? If so, we have the IBM PCCBBS stuff archived in multiple places. ...

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December 4th, 2019, 02:57 AM

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

Not saving the floppy drives from all those PS/2 56 and 57s I dumped. Well over a decade ago, but ... Arrrrgh!!!

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