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Yesterday, 10:15 AM

Malc replied to a thread Adding a CF card slot to a 5170 without wasting an expansion card bay? in PCs and Clones

Yes, As long as the 16-bit IDE/Floppy controller you use is compatible / Works with the IBM bios, I would try the latest IBM 5170 Bios Dated 11/15/85...

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January 21st, 2021, 07:26 PM

Malc replied to a thread Adding a CF card slot to a 5170 without wasting an expansion card bay? in PCs and Clones

Yes, As maxtherabbit said you can use a 16-bit IDE / Floppy controller ( Not the IBM supplied combo ) which is the preferred method in an AT, Then...

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January 20th, 2021, 10:17 AM

Malc replied to a thread Adding a CF card slot to a 5170 without wasting an expansion card bay? in PCs and Clones

You can use the XT-IDE and the xtidecfg.com program to flash EEproms but not Eproms, Nope! you lost me there, Just connect your floppy drive up...

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January 20th, 2021, 01:23 AM

Malc replied to a thread Acorn Computer parts found in our Yearly "hard Rubbish'" on side of road. in Other

Years ago the Keyboard crowd liked those, Dunno if they still do though

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January 20th, 2021, 01:06 AM

Malc replied to a thread XTIDE tech support thread in Vintage Computer Hardware

It should work, I remember having to do the same a long time ago for my 486 with CRT monitor, By the time the display came up it had already timed...

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January 18th, 2021, 09:12 PM

Malc replied to a thread Adding a CF card slot to a 5170 without wasting an expansion card bay? in PCs and Clones

So you have the Type 1 with the piggy back ram chips :-( I'm assuming it has the stock IBM bios, Can you burn your own Eproms if required ?, Do...

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January 18th, 2021, 01:13 AM

Malc replied to a thread XTIDE tech support thread in Vintage Computer Hardware

It is possible yes but a custom build of the bios will be needed, The default timeout for the HotKeyBar is about 4 seconds, To change this you will...

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January 17th, 2021, 08:54 PM

Malc replied to a thread IBM 5160 ? about XT-IDE in PCs and Clones

That's an old bios, Try the latest r604 http://www.xtideuniversalbios.org/binaries/

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January 17th, 2021, 06:20 AM

Malc replied to a thread XTIDE Universal BIOS v2.0.0 beta testing thread in Vintage Computer Software

A long time back i dug out a lot of drives, 2.5" and 3.5" ranging from 40Mb to around 1.2Gb, None of them were recognized with XUB's "16-bit ISA IDE...

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January 17th, 2021, 05:34 AM

Malc replied to a thread Adding a CF card slot to a 5170 without wasting an expansion card bay? in PCs and Clones

I looked at doing the same to my 5160 some time back but haven't got around to doing it yet as i have free slots anyway, The 5170 is a bit different...

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January 9th, 2021, 11:18 AM

Malc replied to a thread Battery problem w/ Dallas DS1287 in Later PCs

I've never seen a leaking CR2032 coin cell, About 3 year ago i did the battery mod to the 12887 in my Amstrad 486, Works a treat, I have some NOS...

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January 7th, 2021, 11:55 AM

Malc replied to a thread data i/o plus 48 software and devicelist in Other

I believe the original manufacture was SMS and Data I/O acquired SMS, Data I/O would have slapped their brand on the remaining stock and sold it all...

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January 7th, 2021, 04:39 AM

Malc replied to a thread data i/o plus 48 software and devicelist in Other

Good luck with that, The device list is still on Data I/O ftp site, Some info Here, IIRC back in the day one had to purchase key codes if you wanted...

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January 1st, 2021, 02:07 PM

Malc replied to a thread Getting one of those IDE-to-CompactFlash adaptor boards to work in Vintage Computer Hardware

DOS does not care about the RMB, It will install and run perfectly fine on a Removable drive just as it will on a Fixed drive, A compatible Bios will...

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December 30th, 2020, 09:35 AM

Malc replied to a thread Getting one of those IDE-to-CompactFlash adaptor boards to work in Vintage Computer Hardware

Nope! It's basically a dumb ass pass thru, No smarts on the CF adapter. What were the Model / specs of the computers you saw on YT, My guess is they...

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