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January 14th, 2021, 09:31 PM

jafir replied to a thread Radio Shack Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 2 - Model #26-3026 - AS IS in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

$75 is pretty steep for a coco2, even if working condition. For a broken one it's silly :)

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January 14th, 2021, 05:53 PM

jafir replied to a thread Getting an 8" FDD working with an IBM 5170? in PCs and Clones

The chassis should support two of each. One full height HDD on the left side, two half height floppy drives and one half height HDD on the right...

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January 13th, 2021, 07:14 AM

jafir replied to a thread Installing an OS on a P166 without floppy drive in Vintage Computer Hardware

I've had pretty good luck using a real computer with a real hard drive and floppy drive to install an OS, and then using Ghost for DOS to create an...

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January 13th, 2021, 07:09 AM

jafir replied to a thread Ibm bus & tag in Minis and Mainframes

It feels like half the guys I work with were at StorageTek at some point. I think the Sun and then Oracle takeovers caused a lot of changes to their...

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January 12th, 2021, 08:53 AM

jafir replied to a thread Forum search terms - am I missing something? in General Off Topic

Most forums have a minimum character limit for searching, to keep from overwhelming the servers. KIM is too short.

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January 11th, 2021, 07:26 PM

jafir replied to a thread Is hard disk failure because of HDD 0 having 2 partitions and HDD 1 having 1: 2+1=3? in Vintage Computer Hardware

Here is a manual that was with a NOS ST-251-1 that I have: ...

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January 11th, 2021, 06:51 PM

jafir replied to a thread Is hard disk failure because of HDD 0 having 2 partitions and HDD 1 having 1: 2+1=3? in Vintage Computer Hardware

The BIOS won’t care about partitions on the drive. Do you have the drive select jumpers set correctly for each drive? Does only the last drive...

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January 11th, 2021, 01:42 PM

jafir replied to a thread Civ for Windows 3.1 - status bar in Vintage Computer Software

Have you tried the shortcut keys alt-spacebar or alt-hyphen?

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January 10th, 2021, 06:16 PM

jafir replied to a thread File manager PC Shell 5.5 not seeing files where they actually are in Vintage Computer Software

It’s not compression. It’s a defragger with a name that didn’t age well.

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January 10th, 2021, 05:39 PM

jafir replied to a thread Picked up an IBM 5150. Keeping it original or upgrade ? in PCs and Clones

Are the Magnetic Peripherals, Inc. IBM branded full height drives any better?

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January 8th, 2021, 08:28 AM

jafir replied to a thread Has a game ever used the IBM 5151's "long" P39 phosphor to get around charset limits? in PCs and Clones

Does the compaq VDU do this when in CGA mode? And if so, then does the deskpro with it's Amber CRT vs the Portable with a Green CRT have this...

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January 7th, 2021, 12:18 PM

jafir replied to a thread The Compaq Deskpro 8086, finally! in PCs and Clones

My issue is that I always hit enter when trying to hit backslash. I have trouble with XT keyboards too these days, even though that's what I started...

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January 7th, 2021, 08:24 AM

jafir replied to a thread The Compaq Deskpro 8086, finally! in PCs and Clones

There are a couple of keyboards on ebay right now, but they are both around $100, before shipping. I've been tempted to put in a really low offer,...

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January 6th, 2021, 01:56 PM

jafir replied to a thread What do you think the minimal vintage system would be that can run HTTP over TLS? in General Vintage Computer Discussions

Are there any proxy servers that can do TLS to the world and then translate to SSL or even nothing at all for the private network? I've tried to...

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January 6th, 2021, 10:22 AM

jafir replied to a thread Writing Mac 800kB disks in Later Apple (68000+ based machines - Mac, Lisa, etc.)

I've definitely written 400K and 800K mac floppies with a kryoflux and a standard PC drive. Sometimes they are a little flakey, but usually I can...

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January 6th, 2021, 10:12 AM

jafir replied to a thread The Compaq Deskpro 8086, finally! in PCs and Clones

The correct keyboard seems to be hard to find and is pretty pricy, but I'm pretty sure the "compaq enhanced keyboard" should work with it, although...

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January 4th, 2021, 09:17 PM

jafir replied to a thread problems with Adaptec AHA-1520 and SCSI on 286 in PCs and Clones

I don’t think you’re going to be able to load a driver before you boot :) That’s what the boot bios is for.

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January 4th, 2021, 05:49 PM

jafir replied to a thread problems with Adaptec AHA-1520 and SCSI on 286 in PCs and Clones

The manual says you cannot boot from the drive with the AL jumper in place: http://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides/aha1520a_ug.pdf But...

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January 2nd, 2021, 08:43 AM

jafir replied to a thread Seagate ST01 SCSI controller (8K) 3.2 firmware? in Vintage Computer Hardware

According to this: ftp://ftp.seagate.com/techsuppt/controllers/st01-02.txt The 16K version is a different PCB layout. That’s unfortunate, because...

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December 31st, 2020, 11:07 AM

jafir replied to a thread Diagnostic and Benchmark Tools? in PCs and Clones

There is version 4 that was bundled with wincheckit: https://winworldpc.com/product/wincheckit/40

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December 30th, 2020, 06:33 PM

jafir replied to a thread Got my first Amiga, it has issues in Commodore

The manual for the deluxe option board says it can copy amiga disks, but I would wonder where you’d find the images you need in transcopy format. ...

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December 29th, 2020, 01:45 PM

jafir replied to a thread Bringing an old MFM hard drive (ST-412) back from the dead (feedback requested) in Vintage Computer Hardware

I'd recommend acquiring an older copy of spinrite to stress the drive a bit. It will also check for errors as it goes.

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December 20th, 2020, 06:02 PM

jafir replied to a thread OEMs & clones on eBay (continuous listings) in Vintage Computer Auctions

I’ve got a similar one as my tweener, a vectra 500 pentium 166 and I put a 5 1/4” floppy drive in it. I had a vectra vl5 pentium mmx desktop back in...

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December 18th, 2020, 02:54 PM

jafir replied to a thread Silly quesiton #462: Why are there LEDs on gaming headsets? in General Off Topic

I had a thinkpad that work gave me that could do that. A little LED next to the webcam would shine down on the keyboard. Back when I'd get paged more...

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December 17th, 2020, 06:09 PM

jafir replied to a thread Good null modem program for WinXP in Vintage Computer Software

Fastlynx does a good job of running the GUI on a modern system and a dos client on the vintage system. The free demo version does have a 10MB limit,...

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