Recent content by penguin86

Hi guys I read the old CGA to VGA thread and it interested me very much. I have two CGA/EGA PCs and two dead monitors :( Here in Italy these monitors are very rare, so I was looking for a cheaper solution to use these PCs. Ok, I can't connect CGA cards to VGA monitors, but I found something...

Hi guys. My hobby of collecting computers is mostly due to childhood desires (in fact, I'm buying all the pcs I was dreaming when I was a child... :-D [or I should say all I can afford ;)] ). BTW, there is a PC I used to salivate over for many years. It was an 8086, IBM pc-compatible portable...

As the title says, the next week I'll acquire an Apple ][ clone... I know clones are not so important, but I can't afford an original Apple ][ :rolleyes: Btw, I read in some other posts that isn't safe to turn on directly, due to capacitators "unforming". Well, I read the linked document...

Hi guys! I have in my collection a pair of IBM PC compatible computers (a Philips PC-100 and an Amstrad PPC640). Both are 8088 with 640kb RAM and both run MS-Dos 3.3 (the Philips had a broken hard disk, so I boot it with the amstrad's floppy). I'm able to trasfer files between the two pcs but...

Hi! I'm from Pisa, Italy and I'm a beginner retrocomputing collector. I'm interested in computers form 1980 to 1990 and few interesting items up to 1995 (only if vey interesting ;) ). I love especially portables PCs, but they are difficult to find in Italy.:( I'm sorry for my bad english...