So I am going to be purchasing a complete in box Mac 7100 and I was wondering if you guys had a solution to getting software burned onto a disk and then accessible on the vintage hardware. Would I be able to do it regularly or is there a special method to make it work?

Hey!

I recently fixed up my old macintosh SE and was wondering if there are any sites I can download games and use my usb floppy drive to write them to a floppy disk to load up on my SE. Thanks in advance!

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https://x.com/kikoretrospace?s=21

Finding a power supply with the right plug took forever. I need the drivers, some stuff works good, some don't work for shit. Dell don't give a shit about "pre dell Alienware". A 3.4ghz P4 is a good one, a 3.4ghz in a P4 laptop is legendary. I want to use it for retro gaming. I got it from the original owner who I remember playing games on it from when it was new. (It even got briefly stolen in Mexico & came back). Obviously the original HDD went to shit. Anyone got any ideas? It's getting a m.2 upgrade. Where can I even find it's "maximum specs" for upgrading? I don't wanna buy a 512gb hdd just to find out it can't even address it.

Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) is hosting a Zoom meeting with special guest Dave Haynie, the legendary Commodore chief engineer who began with the company in 1983 and stayed until the very end in 1994. His projects included:

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• TED series - e.g. Commodore Plus/4, C16.
• Amiga 2000
• A2620 CPU module
• A2630 CPU module
• Zorro III expansion bus
• Amiga 3000
• AGA chipset
• AAA chipset (Advanced Amiga Architecture)

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Mark your calendars:

Date / time: Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 7:30PM ET (Toronto).

Zoom details: https://www.tpug.ca

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If you can't attend the meeting, please watch the recording later on YouTube by subscribing to TPUG's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TorontoPETUsersGroup

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See you at the meeting !

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I know this isnt about retro pcs but idk where to ask this, so installing tiny core linux on a open box v8s from usb isnt so easy as i thought. You open the menu see the media section then choose your usb disk you see the linux folders but no setup files. If anyone know how to do this or something please say

PS the reason i thought of doing this was i saw someone on youtube play gta on a wifi router so i wanted to do something simular.

Maybe you know interesting vintage radio but with relation to computers / electronic? (not just basic wooden old radio).

Would like to find something to my retro cave.

I stumbled across this video on YT purely by chance. I have never watched this fellow before but he's fairly entertaining which is why I kept watching (despite not knowing the subject matter at-hand). I thought a few people here would also enjoy it so I'm posting the link.

I'm going to share/re-post this to the other vintage computer forum here as well. Sorry in advance if it comes up twice in your feed (Yes, I'm Canadian, how did you know!?).

The rarest PC in the world

Does anyone know how much it is worth and what it is. I have one that works and is in decent condition.

Is there any antivirus for MS-DOS that is available online and that came out during the last years of MS-DOS (therefore covering as many viruses as possible)?

I would like to use it on an MS-DOS 6.22 and an MS-DOS 3.30 computer with no hard drive, so, ideally, the antivirus would fit in s 1.44Mb floppy.

I recently got a Toshiba T1910 and everytime it boots up I get an error message saying CD-ROM is not detected

I saw a vr201 monitor for sale for $15+ $51 shipping. Is this a good deal, working or not?

The graphics card is a GeForce 6200A

The driver is the GeForce forceware 81.98

The OS is Win98fe

The machine is an IBM Aptiva E series 175

I have limited knowledge on computers but my motherboard died and I want to buy another one only thing is I don't know which one to buy, all I know is that my old motherboard had a Intel pentium 4 and a agp graphics card slot. I have a nvidia tnt2 Elsa erasor III and a audigy 2 zs soundcard it all worked awesome, it could play anything from like doom 2 to gta vice city although it didn't run gta great it was still very playable. Can anyone recommend me a motherboard and cpu that would match the performance of my old one?

Found this computer in my dads old stuff and can’t find it online to get tips.

I'm restoring an old IBM5150, however it didn't come with any cables to power it or hook up the monitor (a Sinclair monochrome screen). Finding information on what type of cable it takes is tricky. I had thought it might be able to use a standard RS232 (I was going to buy one off Amazon and get a gender changer to make it male-male), but an old blog I came across showed it with missing pins, making me worried that it is wired slightly differently than a standard RS232 straight through.

Anybody have experience with this?

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https://www.pcmag.com/news/teardown-inside-pc-labs-ibm-pc-model-5150

This is what I was going to pickup to try and connect them (after thoroughly cleaning the insides first): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B3DVKXJW

Greetings fellow vintage computonians. I was looking for advice, I have been looking at some old computers online for the last several months and will eventually purchase one, but most likely it will come from America and I'm located in Canada. Has anyone shipped large computers through the mail before and if so, what was your experience like? And is there a better alternative to Ebay and local Facebook marketplace for this kindof thing?

I'm used to only getting standard size Amazon packages so I'm not sure what happens when they ship something large like a PC. Does it just come to the doorstep like everything else? Ive also seen a couple of posts on here of monitors damaged in transit so was wondering what the general consensus is and if anyone has any first time computer buyer shipping advice.

Much appreciated in advance 😊

Looking to find an old IBM XT 5150 eventually for the curious, and to use it for games, as that was the childhood PC I had and I'd like to feel that nostalgia again.