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Enjoy some vintage holiday tunes for MS-DOS and the C64!

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2024/12/03
13:47 UTC

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Not really vintage but...

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2024/12/03
03:45 UTC

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Why doesn't my Texas Instrument printer respond?

My Texas Instrument PC-100A printer doesn't work. Video what happened

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2024/12/03
01:28 UTC

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ATI Readon 9800 AIW repair request

Reddit,

I have teh ATI Readon 9800 Pro All In Wonder AGP card and it needs his memory chips replaced. I can't do it myself as I am visually impaired.

I've had the card for a long time and I have the regional box CDs and everything. The card came out in 2003.
I want to pay to have it repaired. It's rare and unique. It has 128MB RAM, and I'd like someone to see if they can replace it. The RAM is bad, and the card has artifacts when hitting upper memory. Heck, I'd like to know if we can put 256 MB RAM on it.

I'd also like for someone to replace all of the caps and add heat syncs to add new head sinks to the RAM and maybe a better heatsink to the GPU.

Someone to replace all of the caps and add heat syncs, as well as new head sinks for the RAM and maybe a better heatsink for

I'm in the US, and I want to keep it in the States for repairs. It's surface-mounted memory.

Thanks for reading.

6 Comments
2024/12/02
23:00 UTC

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SPSS Statistics Software Version 6 Lives Again

https://preview.redd.it/h2xkhm50hi4e1.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39141b03f27cd0a92aab50376695f62a836fe3fe

They are currently on version 30.0. I found this in the box at HPB for $3, and its running on an old Vista PC my neighbor gave me. May the stats gods forgive me for using a QQ-Plot with clearly non-normal data.

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2024/12/02
22:26 UTC

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CDC 6009 series console footage?

Hi everyone,

The console for the CDC 6000 series looks so cool, but I’ve never been able to find any videos of what it actually looks like in action. I know there were rudimentary games etc made for it. Does anyone know of videos online where I can see one displaying something? All the videos I’ve found never actually show the console in operation.

Thanks!

1 Comment
2024/12/02
19:54 UTC

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I bought a PDA that I used from 2005 to 2008 and made a review from today's perspective

2 Comments
2024/12/02
16:19 UTC

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I'm happy

I was able to find a new motherboard, now I need to get a new screen

Toshiba Satellite 325CDS

2 Comments
2024/12/02
13:48 UTC

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Amiga emulating QL

0 Comments
2024/12/02
06:21 UTC

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My choice of best of QL videos

0 Comments
2024/12/02
06:21 UTC

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QL in heaven

0 Comments
2024/12/02
06:20 UTC

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Vectrex console

12 Comments
2024/12/02
05:56 UTC

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Hardware Physix PPU Aegia tributeu/rasvoja avataru/rasvoja•1 min. agoHardware Physix PPU Aegia tribute

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2024/12/02
05:52 UTC

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ALR Powerflex fully restored with working Colorado 250MB Tape drive & Retromodem

32 Comments
2024/12/02
05:11 UTC

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3dfx tribute

2 Comments
2024/12/02
04:49 UTC

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Help Setting Up an ISA Modem Card in DOS 6.22/Windows for Workgroups 3.11

6 Comments
2024/12/02
02:24 UTC

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Unable to create 5.25 bootable floppy

I recently acquired a grease weasel and I'm attempting to make a bootable floppy disk from it so I can boot into my IBM computer, I've been successful in copying Dos onto the floppy disk, but every time I've extracted the data off the floppy and attempted to boot from it in Oracle virtualbox I only ever got a black screen, I've attempted IMG, DSK, VFD, I've also attempted a few different IBM formats in Greece weasel neither of them seem to work either.
I've also went into HxCFloppyEmulator to look at the IMG file and every time I've gone into the
"dummy disc" view it says there's no bad sectors.

And I still get a floppy disk error when I physically plugged the floppy drive back into the IBM computer.
I'm not sure if this is relevant but whenever I loaded grease weasel I had to move the jumper on the floppy Drive from Drive select 0 to drive select 1, for some reason grease weasel wouldn't detect the floppy drive until I move the jumper.
I'm almost certain the problem is user error I'm not familiar with the process of making bootable floppies so it could be a very basic mistake I'm making.
As much as I want to stare at my computer screen all day long unfortunately I have a job :(
so my responses might be slow, I'll try to reply as soon as I can.

Thank you in advance to the people who reply to this and all the people in this subreddit who helped me in previous posts.
The advice is greatly appreciated

16 Comments
2024/12/02
00:40 UTC

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Can I use a vintage zip drive??

Hello!

While cleaning out my dad's old place, I found a blue zip drive (V100P2). I ordered a USB cable to go from the DB25 to my laptop (ThinkPad running windows 10). When I plug it in, the laptop sees that its there, but does not open anything when inserting the disk. Would anyone know if there is a way to get this to work? I think many of these disks have family photos and work I did in school as a kid, and it would be nice to get them somewhere safe.

Thank you in advance.

UPDATE!! I ordered a USB Zip Drive from ebay...ill let you know next week when I get it!

Thanks again!

20 Comments
2024/12/01
22:38 UTC

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Update, successfully installed 8 MB RAM into Tandy 2500 SX/33, however:

I’ve noticed that I haven’t seen much of an improved performance from any programs I’ve ran so far that previously ran a little slower than optimal. I’ve attempted to load programs into high memory, but still have the same issues.

Do you think this means it’s more likely to do with system limitations with Hard Drive, CPU, etc? System runs a 33 Mhz processor for reference.

Is there anything else I should be considering modifying on the system currently (such as autoexec, config.sys, which is already running on DOS=High I should add) or should I be looking into other hardware upgrades?

31 Comments
2024/12/01
22:26 UTC

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My Toshiba Liberetto W100

5 Comments
2024/12/01
19:05 UTC

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Amstrad cpc 6128 keyboard schematics?

I have a CPC 6128 board without case, drive or keyboard. It works but is, ofcourse, unusable like this. I am trying to recreate the keyboard with modern components to fit inside a new case i'll make, but i'd need to find the schematics for the keyboard as i'm having difficulty with figuring out which key Activates which pin etc. Is anyone able to help me out with this possibly?

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2024/12/01
17:19 UTC

3 Comments
2024/12/01
13:30 UTC

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Amiga demo on AROS

0 Comments
2024/12/01
10:30 UTC

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