Recent content by RetroHospital

it's unclear to me where to post about peripherals (printers, externals cdroms, zipdrives, etc) I would add such a category,

Well thanks to everyone trying to help The idea of the cdrom is a good one, it may have useful info altough it would really be great to have the manual for the future generations There is very little info on this device and the few old messages you see are sometimesy wrong. First of this unit...

If that helps someone the link used to be http://www.iomega.com/support/manuals/en351002.pdf But of course ; not indexed by archive … The manual is very specific about limitations of the zip plus model …

Hello everyone , Unobtainable documentation ; I’m looking for a scan of the doc of the Iomega zip100plus drive ( that unit was both scsi and parallel ) If you have that in a drawer that would be much appreciated as it doesn’t exist online atm Thanks 🙏

Mine makes an horrible coil whine noise The coil is actually easy to locate, it's a transformer that is strangely out of the motherboard and put below the case It seems to be involved in the backlight power psu Did anyone ever encounter this issue ?

Azimuth adjust cannot be emulated, this would require a tape created on a reference recorder. (imho)

According to the PX8 tech doc, A file full of 1s should sound like a 1Khz sine wave, the flag bit itself is a 1, so a 1Khz as well. So if we could write a program that just sends like 64Kb of 1 to the tape, this should roughly sound like a 1Khz tone. Each byte should be exactly 9ms on tape...

I'd be interested in this as well, or any method to make one. Alternatively it soulds feasible to me to write a bit of basic code that would save a specific file that, when played in audio, would sound like a test tone, and you would then adjust the playback speed until it matches theory

Beeing a laptop collector ; laptops shouldn’t be sent in a category of their own ; imho ; as this is redundant with their cpu platform

Hello ! One 37kg (I suppose that's 70 pounds) beast landed in my house, a 1985 Telex / teletypewriter model sagem, used in a lot of countries under different names The unit works fine however it refuses to do anything complaining of "telex line", I suppose it wants the telephone network and...

Regarding the schematics the entire community of Toshiba collectors would love to have them I feel we’re not doing enough to get them . I made my share by emailing some corporate guy who never replied ; but I’m sure an organisation like vcf has to have more power than me ; or that at some...

I don’t want to break your hopes but the entire 1000/2000 lineup of the 90s is known to have psu problems that are mysterious and difficult to fix ; if possible at all The general recommendation is to stay away from them ( or get them for free )

Speaking of display, did anyone ever manage to open the display of a PX8 ? I tried but it looks like it's gonna break. I'd like to check what's inside (capacitors, etc) and also deoxit the contrast thing

Hello everyone, I'm looking for PDF with scans of the Data General One 2T manual, maintenance manuals, or any manual really. I can't find them on the internet, or I'm not looking at the right places maybe If someone has them and would be willing to scan them, that would be much appreciated...

Jesus I need to investigate that in my pc2 !!! I don’t want a candy bar blob growing in it :)