Recent content by HanJammer

By my advise Dmitri started the Patreon which will perhaps make it easier to support his cause. It's available here: https://www.patreon.com/braintec

The 24.02.2022 will be always remembered as the day after which world no longer was the same. Russian regime forces in their treacherous attack invaded Ukraine and commited (still are commiting) atrocities and war crimes against Ukrainian people. You all heard what happened in Bucha -...

So I got the NorthStar Advantage off local auction service. Price was good compared to what I've seen on eBay. Machine is in OK visual condition, I also already opened it and it's pretty dirty inside (a lot of dust). Machine apparently was modded to 220V/50Hz (it even has a sticker with...

Hi, I'm looking for any resources on this nice tape drive I found online for a price of used SCSI cable ;) - it's in very nice condition, starts, seems to work, although I can't test the drive without cartridges and software. I'm pretty sure it should work with variety of DAT tapes, although...

I bought A2620 for my A2000 - card works OK, passes RAM test, CPU works OK. Problem is it won't boot from HDD. It doesn't even see the HDD controllers (A2091 and Buddha) are installed. When I switch back to 68000 via right-click menu it will boot just fine. Kickstart is 3.1 Machine has 2MB of...

Tandy 1000TL2 floppy drive died on me in the middle of recording #septandy episode :( It's Sony MP-F11W-72 (the MP-F11W-70D will work as well) - the ribbon cable which connecting two PCBs is burnt floppy spins when I try to access the disk but won't seek. I may have helped it by connecting it to...

I found this thing some time ago, and it caught attention of the SS50 & SS30 Computer Bus Chat Facebook group admin and since then we are discussing it there, although it's very small group... Right now I already have checked the PSU, cleaned/inspected floppy drives, traced a portion of the I/O...

So, not really a podcast, but I hope it's OK. I started a retrocomputing YouTube channel. It's main focus will be vintage PCs but I will feature other machines as well from time to time. First episode is a bit longer than what I'm aiming at (I will try to make episodes no longer than 20-25...

I bought this beauty - Unisys T3618-01 and I'm looking for any information about it. Google only show just a few results with similar T3618-00 monitor and says it's CGA/EGA. Mine indeed works with CGA card and with EGA Wonder 800 set to IBM RGB Color mode (it didn't worked with a 'dumb' true EGA...

I recently got my hands on some Zenith Z-Station 433Dn pizzabox machine. It works but CMOS battery was discharged and it lost all the BIOS settings. It's one of these machines where setup is just a DOS program. I don't have it so I'm looking for the disks. It's likely setup from another, similar...

I have this mouse for 30 years now and I'm trying to fix it as it stopped working 20+ years ago (some wires in the cable broken). I already fixed the cable but I'm pretty sure the internal connector has pinout messed up as well - it tries to work but it struggles. I need high res photo of the...

Today I made some tests and I can confirm that this firmware works fine on DC-4030VL-2 and adds LBA support.

Some time ago I bought this interesting specimen cheaply... I don't have TTL monitor, but I can use composite... unfortunately I don't have (and I didn't found) dip switch settings for this particular card (most EGA cards have less dip switches and for those I found manuals on TH'99 and so on)...

I'm trying to repair this 386 motherboard. It has Contaq 82C591/592 chipset, there is also UMC 82C206L chip. I fixed alot of cold solder joints and bent pins on CPU and chipset, and installed 80MHz oscillator which was missing. Only thing left before I will try to fire it up are the jumpers...