Hello. I wanted to open this diskette drive and clean it before using it, but it does not seem like it can be easily disassembled. It's a 3 1/2" drive, but smaller than a regular one. From a laptop. From peeking through the door, the diskette carriage and top head appear to be part of the cover...
Hello 1ST1. Sorry, I'm pretty rusty on the Olivetti stuff. Back in 2014 it was really difficult to find pictures or even mentions of certain Olivetti models, as it was difficult to find people that knew about them. But now, as I see more interest in their old products, I kinda took a back seat...
What's the picture? I'm guessing that it loads the tape, but fails to turn the reel. Are you able to rewind or fast forward? I don't recommend that you mess with a broken VCR with a cassette that you like.
Of course. These were devices that were meant to last a couple of years without breaking...
You don't get it. MS-DOS Player runs in the command line and is more integrated into the environment. For example, the mouse cursor that you use is the OS' one; If you plug a USB flash drive into the computer, whatever program that you launched will see it even if it was launched before the...
Yes a combo unit, that's what I was thinking. These were often made in styles not found in regular TVs. Such as, in the case of yours, white plastic (never found on regular TVs of that era) and commands arranged in the style of a remote controller. It has a wooden swivel? Now, I'm not sure if...
I think I got it from emulationrealm.net (https://emulationrealm.net/downloads/file/3251-ms-dos-player)
It should work fine on my system? Isn't DOSBox a weird emulator-thingy with a built-in operating system? I already have VMWare Workstation Player installed if I want to use such a program...
Hello. MS-DOS Player is a 32-bit CPU emulator or something, that's supposed to make it possible to run DOS programs in a 64-bit Windows operating system like 7. It does succeed in launching the program expand, however any backslash entered turns into a right parenthesis. Because of this, expand...
Yes it's really beautiful. The silver-coloured parts give it a very clean look, and the black bottom part that juts out is an interesting idea, that I don't think I've ever seen elsewhere.
I'm not surprised that it still turns on, since it's so recent. From experience, 60's TVs still work. 50's...
115CS? Cool, it looks like an older model. Are there any signs of corruption on the motherboard from the leaking batteries? Our problems are not exactly the same however, as you say that with your 115CS the screen is what stopped functioning properly. On mine, it simply does not boot.
What do...
Hello. I'm looking for keys for my Ogivar 117870-001 keyboard. It is a rebadged NMB RT102. The layout of the keyboard is Canadian Multilingual Standard. The keys it is missing are the following:
escape - F1 - F2 - F3 - F12 - print screen - scroll lock
# - 9 - home
left ctrl - right ctrl
Here's...
I see. I tried that mode before and it didn't work. Perhaps this was the fault of the batteries.
So I'm guessing that a laptop from 2022 has two internal batteries too.
It's weird how a 430 is an older, mostly inferior product to a 320, right? I don't understand Toshiba's nomenclature.
Did you find it? According to a seller on ebay and this: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/heath/2005-December/020464.html it's a rebadged MC6821 Peripheral Interface Adapter.
https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Datasheets/MC6821%20NMOS%20Peripheral%20Interface%20Adapter%20(Motorola).pdf
Hi. First of all I know that this laptop is pretty recent for the forum (late 90's, Pentium, Windows 95), so feel free to move it to the off-topic section if its presence here is too offensive.
This laptop worked until I tried it one day and it didn't anymore. When I turn it on the status...
Hi. I'm just wondering who made the Olivetti BIOS. I think their first computer to feature it was their first IBM PC-compatible, the M24 right? One day I saw a very weird and rare "Intel" computer on eBay that had a BIOS from Phoenix Technologies. To my surprise the POST screen was basically the...