Recent content by f1lm

I just got my hands on an Archive 5945C QIC-36 drive with (I think) an EAX6GP-SC400S controller card for my XT and it all seems to still work properly. But now the question is; what software will work with this drive? The old Miniscribe 3425 in this thing is nearing 30 years old and it would be...

once again I am, unsurprisingly, at wit's end. I recently purchased a rather complete Mac Plus with a software-laden HD20. I've been trying to get a couple extra things on it, namely DateBook off of Macintosh Garden to test the water, but the 800K floppy drive is proving to be too much of a...

I've got a lot of PC expansion cards with no reasonable way to store them. At the moment, I'm just chucking them into boxes and hoping they don't get broken/I can find them again, and it's starting to get annoying every time I need something out of the boxes. Is there any good way to store a...

this thing would make a perfect P90 DOS/3.x box if I could find some drivers for it, but I can't find anything for the Trident Cyber9320 that works on Windows 3.1 are there any drivers left for this chip, or any alternatives? I can't find anything that works, even after braving DriverGuide's...

Not really sure if this belongs here or in off-topic, it's not really that vintage, but still in the "more than a decade" range, so I apologize in advance if I've posted in the wrong place. I'm running some tests on my shop box and a few other Win2k systems and I'd prefer a more practical...

maybe not directly related to an 8088-286 PC, but still related nonetheless. I bought a Model 30 with a dead-as-mutton FDD, and I am not in the mood for paying shakedown prices for a replacement. My current shop rig for these kinds of jobs is an HP Vectra VL800/1300 running Windows 2000, but I...

I just snagged an HP 9000 C110 workstation that seemed to be working judging from the outside (I discovered the RAM had been removed when I brought it home) and when I actually got to test it, the thing wouldn't even turn on. The lack of RAM seems like an obvious reason, but that shouldn't keep...

I was told that this was the remnants of an old 390 (the actual system itself was donated to a charity which promptly tore it apart and sold the bits to a recycler, sadly) and I'm wondering what the rest of this is. From what I can gather, the two largest items are a network controller (left)...

Dunno if this is the right place to be posting this question, but I was wondering if I could get some help with this. I just rescued a PS/2 Model 70 from being sent to a recycler, still turns on and the inside is pretty pristine! It's running a 386DX-16 with co-pro as well as 3 MB of RAM and...

I just grabbed myself a Kaypro II, knowing of some disk problems. I figured it'd be an easy fix but I'm being disproven. I can't seem to figure out what's wrong with it. It won't take any of the numerous CP/M disks I'm putting in it, just saying it can't read it, and I'm afraid it might be...

I'm still a little new to these boards, but to get to the point, I've recently gotten myself an old cassette player for use with my TRS-80 Model I 16K. Problem is, I have no software to write to the tapes. Though I have software on disk, I can't access it because for some reason the complete...

Recently while looking around a surplus shop, I squirreled away a box loaded with early, preliminary Z-80 documentation and two Zilog Z80 MCB single-board computers in perfect condition. At first, I suspected these SBCs were S-100 bus cards, reading through the manual, they actually use a...

I've recently come into possession of an immaculate Micron Pentium Classic 133 desktop PC, and I've been trying to do a refurb and set it up for some DOS gaming and internet browsing. The last part is when the problem came in. I installed a Compaq NC3122 dual Ethernet NIC card, and couldn't get...