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December 11th, 2019, 07:06 AM

jafir replied to a thread IBM PC 51xx real number of pieces produced? in PCs and Clones

I wonder if systems that were sold wholesale counted to the official sales numbers. I'll bet a lot of those 5140 parts are coming from Computer...

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December 9th, 2019, 06:09 AM

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

Any chance you’re using a CF card for a hard drive? I had a laptop that I installed one of those CF card to ide adapters and afterwards it wouldn’t...

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December 7th, 2019, 09:51 AM

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

By default floppy drives are just “read” cached. Using drive letter with plus or minus turns on or off the caching for that drive. So I just...

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December 7th, 2019, 08:40 AM

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

OK. So more testing. I tried all of those machine types, at1, at2, and at3, and it would still hang. I tried dos=low with the same results. So I...

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December 6th, 2019, 02:18 PM

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

So on my old 5170, with 1/11/1984 BIOS and a 6mhz CPU, I was able to reproduce the problem. I booted up to DOS 6.22, installed the program, and when...

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December 5th, 2019, 05:13 PM

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

I’ve got a OG 5170 with 6mhz CPU and piggyback RAM. If the kryoflux stream files were to fall into my lap, I’m sure I’d be obligated to test it out.

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December 4th, 2019, 08:34 PM

jafir replied to a thread CD-ROM caddies in Vintage Computer Items Wanted

I’ve got a few of them. I had a huge bag of them, but I think I gave most of them away when I gave away my DEC 3000 because the external drive uses...

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December 4th, 2019, 12:37 PM

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

Not if they are something that is still supported and with onsite maintenance. As a CE for a company that’s not HPE, I can tell you that there is...

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December 4th, 2019, 12:06 PM

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

I wonder who really makes those drives, and if they made the custom HP firmware, or if HP wrote it themselves.

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December 4th, 2019, 07:09 AM

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

I gave away a complete DEC 3000/700 and an HP a4033a 20" Trinitron, and the guy I gave it to tossed it just a little later. I didn't care at the...

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December 3rd, 2019, 08:39 AM

jafir replied to a thread New to me Rainbow 100A and VR201 in DEC

Is this Microsoft Kermit 3.10? If so, I think you'll need to do a set file type binary and you'll need to do something similar on the Mac side too,...

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December 2nd, 2019, 06:57 PM

jafir replied to a thread New to me Rainbow 100A and VR201 in DEC

There are ways to transfer files to dos computers using a serial cable. Laplink and fastlynx both are able to do this. Basically you transfer control...

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December 2nd, 2019, 03:34 PM

jafir replied to a thread New to me Rainbow 100A and VR201 in DEC

According to the FAQ here, there is no disk access using the builtin terminal. http://www.classiccmp.org/rainbow/files/rainbow.faq

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December 2nd, 2019, 11:03 AM

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

I've got this card as well. I found a post where someone had the software, but I tried leaving a message for the guy to see if he'd archive it, and...

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December 2nd, 2019, 10:53 AM

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

I picked up a huge pile of floppy disks from a seller on facebook recently. I noticed there were dozens of them that had a hole drilled in them so...

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December 2nd, 2019, 07:40 AM

jafir replied to a thread reading ROMs from compaq portable, commodore 64, etc in Vintage Computer Hardware

When you get a chance, can you compare your VDU ROM to what is posted here to see if it's the same? http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/rom/rom.htm

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November 30th, 2019, 06:27 PM

jafir replied to a thread IBM I-Series (AS/400) questions in Minis and Mainframes

The iSeries and pSeries hardware are identical, but they have changed the model number in firmware to keep you from trying to run the system software...

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November 30th, 2019, 06:11 PM

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

I had a similar experience. I was watching a youtube video of a guy that diagnosis cars, using an oscilloscope and other interesting tools. The guy...

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November 28th, 2019, 10:57 AM

jafir replied to a thread Plus Hardcard 20 error in Vintage Computer Hardware

Yep. Back in the day we used to put 3.5 inch drives label side down on the floor and spin them to try and free them up. It’s a little harder to do...

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November 28th, 2019, 08:32 AM

jafir replied to a thread Plus Hardcard 20 error in Vintage Computer Hardware

I’ve got one that I removed from a computer I bought (that is currently dead) and I was wanting to see if it had any interesting software on it. I...

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November 28th, 2019, 08:17 AM

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

Didn’t some games have copy protection where it would move (or maybe edit) a file from the floppy to the hdd, and you had to uninstall the game (so...

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November 27th, 2019, 09:23 AM

jafir replied to a thread RARE VINTAGE APPLE IIe ENHANCED PLATINUM COMPUTER SYSTEM (VGC) in Vintage Computer Auctions

I'm rich! (Normally I wouldn't comment about someone's price being high, but in this case, the OP seems to post a lot of ebay listings, and they...

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November 26th, 2019, 02:14 PM

jafir replied to a thread New to me Rainbow 100A and VR201 in DEC

Should be able to read it with many 1.2MB drives as well, not just RX50. I think there is a program called 22disk. Is that something Chuck wrote? ...

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November 25th, 2019, 07:31 PM

jafir replied to a thread Computer will not boot with 2 hard drives attached and hard drive size issue 98se in Vintage Computer Hardware

The update puts the new fdisk in c:\windows\command and also somewhere in the cabs. If you make a boot disk the alerts says you need to copy the...

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November 25th, 2019, 06:53 PM

jafir replied to a thread Computer will not boot with 2 hard drives attached and hard drive size issue 98se in Vintage Computer Hardware

There is an FDISK and SCANDISK update for windows 98 that addresses this issue. It won’t really fully fix the 160GB drive, because even the update is...

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November 25th, 2019, 05:50 PM

jafir replied to a thread New to me Rainbow 100A and VR201 in DEC

Perhaps it’s something like a normal serial cable versus a null modem cable. If you cannot get the serial method to work, you could mail the disk...

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November 24th, 2019, 04:55 PM

jafir replied to a thread reading ROMs from compaq portable, commodore 64, etc in Vintage Computer Hardware

I finally got around to messing with this. What you suggested worked fine, of course. Thanks! It seems that a lot of the Compaq ROMs are set the...

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November 16th, 2019, 12:44 PM

jafir replied to a thread IBM Model WD-325N Type 30, 20MB ESDI Hard Drive in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

this drive might be too new to matter, but in general I wouldn’t power up an old drive unless it’s got self parking heads or you’ve got a way to park...

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November 16th, 2019, 09:47 AM

jafir replied to a thread Flight simulator 2.0 3.0 8087 questions. in PCs and Clones

A lot of people here probably find this question very funny. I’m pretty sure that Trixter is some sort of magician with x86 assembly. If only there...

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