/r/vintagecomputing
Vintage Software & Hardware information and stories. A blast from the past.
Vintage Software & Hardware information and stories. A blast from the past.
/r/vintagecomputing
My Texas Instrument PC-100A printer doesn't work. Video what happened
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.
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.
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!
I was able to find a new motherboard, now I need to get a new screen
Toshiba Satellite 325CDS
I'm trying to set up an old ISA modem card I recently got. It’s labeled as 'Businessland,' and I’ve attached photos for reference. Does anyone recognize this card or know where I can find the documentation? How do I configure the DIP switch?
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
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!
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?
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?