Recent content by jakk

Hi. I posted on here a while back about an IBM 5150 that was getting a keyboard error. The pc had been known to work up until I turned it on and got the error. I was told that reflowing the solder joints on the din connectors might help. I finally got around to trying this, but the problem still...

Hi. I recently built a ZX81 kit, and now I want to use some programs on it. I have many .p fiels, I am just working on transferring them to a tape(apparently they can just be played through a pc soundcard,too). I am trying to use this program...

Hi. I made a thread a while ago about my zx81 kit not working. I emailed the person that I got the kit from, and they told me that they had a history of the ULAs failing. They offered to send me a new one. EDIT: The person sent me a new ULA free of charge and my ZX81 now works!

Hi. I am putting together a ZX81 kit. I have it fully assembled and I just need to install it in the case. Right now, I am attempting to connect the keyboard to the pcb connectors. The problem is, I can't get the keyboard tails to plug into the connectors, they refuse to go in. Is there some...

Hi. I want to use an IBM 5150 to write floppies for my osborne 1(the only 5.25 drives I have besides the 5150 ones are high density drives and I think this is screwing teledisk drives). When the computer was last used about 5 years ago, it worked fine. Now,when I boot it up, I get a 301 keyboard...

Hi. I was wondering if there is a program which will write c64 files to a 5.25 disk from a pc. I have a 5.25 drive hooked up to a pc,but my problem is that I can't find a program which will write the files to a 5.25 drive using the commodore 64 file format. I then would like to use the 5.25 disk...