Found this old promotional (?) Photo in a box of old pics at my job, any idea what this setup is?

Building used to have a couple electronics companies, one was building server racks and such, and one was building high end pelican type cases afaik

What’s a good era appropriate PCI video card for a Pentium 200? For Win 9X gaming of course. :)

I work as the IT guy at a small school and found this old computer that apparently runs dos? No clue if I can get it running again. Tried reseating the memory but that’s as far as I’ve gone. Cool little find.

I have no use for it and would like to replace it with a floppy drive or an audio panel once i install a sound card. Thanks everyone!!

I've been messing around with this Kaypro for a little bit, it wasn't a complete system so I needed to acquire a compatible keyboard and a monitor (ended up getting a VGA card off ebay for it and used a monitor I already have). I booted an image of CPM/86 (and later tried PC-DOS 3.3 after encountering my problem) with a gotek but found that any input from the keyboard is wrong. It isn't random, the same keys will show the same wrong characters (or multiple characters sometimes). A google search has led me to think it might be the Keyboard ROM but I thought I'd ask to see if anyone else has experienced this before investing time/money finding a solution.

I appreciate any suggestions or comments.

Why does this happen? Is it a chemical reaction between the rubber cover of the cable and the plastic of the item? Or is it due to pressure, like it will only happen if the cable is wrapped tightly for a long period of time? Or is there something else going on here?

Basically, for long term storage, do I need to worry about a cable merely touching a plastic item without any particular significant pressure (chemical reaction), or is it only an issue if its wrapped tightly around something (pressure reaction)?

My dear late dad was an electrical engineer for a big company in Brasil, and because of that he had access to computers and softwares that only few people had back in the 90s. We had a desktop 286 (probably) computer and one day he instaled a music software. It contained between 10 and 20 multi-track songs. For example, I remember it had Rolling Stone´s Jumping Jack Flash, and you could listen, separately, the vocals, the drums, the bass, harmony, etc. And you could mix these stems as you like. I´m almost sure it was a DOS software, not inside Windows.

I remember spending hours playing with this software and I´m absolutely sure that it was the seed for becoming a musician/music producer/mixing engineer years later, and that´s what I do today for a living.

Since I got to this conclusion, I tried to find this software online, any information, but never found anything. I can´t remember its name. I only remember it was a DOS software, in the 90s, it had the RS´s song and it had a blue and gray graphic interface.

That´s it. If you can help me, it would be a joy to remember these memories again. Thanks!

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(not a computer I own, just archived for future reference)

COSMOS CMS-16/UNX system available, probably early 80's.  Ran a Unisoft port of v7 UNIX in a 8Mhz 68000 CPU and 1MB of RAM with Intel Multibus. Some of the boards were also used in Sun Multibus systems.

-System Shelf - 9 slot Multibus with Power Supply

-CMT-CPU Multibus 68000 Processor Board

-QTY 2, PSM 512A Multibus Error-Correcting DRAM Boards

-Interphase SMD 2181 Storage Module Controller/Formatter

-Ciprico Tapemaster 1/2" Tape Drive Controller

Hello, I have a usb disk drive and I want to formate some disks to write drivers for DOS on it, but it doesn’t work. Can anyone help?

Anyone else have one of these: https://github.com/rasteri/HIDman I followed the flash directions for windows and my usb keyboard works for bios, but that's it. USB mouse is inop. All devices work just fine on the pc via USB though. I tried pressing the button for the menu like it says on the website and it displayed once, now just nothing and nothing works in windows. Anyone have any experience with these? Thanks!

I can't remember the name of the actual location in the application It was one of the menus I think in the middle towards the right on the top. It allowed you to go in and download applications that other people had created essentially.

There was a demo of the surface of Mars that I remember. The demo was definitely a graphics based application with the keyboard left and right forward and back and that was pretty much it.

I'm wondering if anybody archived that section of the program or does anybody remember what it was called?

I'm going back this was probably 20 years ago.

Cross posting.

Hi all,

I work for a computer & gaming museum in the Netherlands and for next month I will make a social media post about the Acorn Atom from 1980. However, on the Dutch Wikipedia it says that this computer was called the Hobbit computer. But... That is where all documentation about that ends. I have no clue why it was called the Hobbit Computer. Does anyone know?