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I recently got an older motherboard, smaller than the typical Baby AT size. It's small enough as to hint to me it might be a Tomato board that I ran into a year ago, yet I cannot find any information on the internet about it. The only identifying silkscreen marks I can find on it is "G.W386/486...

... how lucky? How about a complete 1985 IBM PC AT system with monitor, printer/plotter, and external tape storage system still in original boxes, with all documentation, manuals, system disks and sales reciepts... for free. How lucky is that, would you say? Just got off of the phone with...

Well, I finally got my paws on a nice EISA memory card that takes 30-pin RAM, which I now have an abundance of! So I figured I could now see how much RAM I could cram into my PC AT... I thought I'd start off with my main selction of RAM to begin with: 8 sticks of 9-chip (pairity, right?) 1MB...

You know what? I owe Microsoft an apology. I really do... I have just completed my third, and last, attempt to install a Linux OS on one of my computers, and just as the other two, it failed miserably. First time was with Slackware. I couldn't even get it to boot. The second time, Debian, but...

I've scoured the net and especially TH99 in the hopes of finding out the jumper settings for this perticular mobo I scrounged up some time back. While the motherboard appears to work anyways, I'd still like to know what certain jumpers do what. The only identifying silkscreens I've found on...

I finally got around to actually getting a 486 system working, but the joy was short lived as I found I couldn't do any work at all concerning the hard disk in any way. The motherboard is an Asus PVI-486SP3 and booting up with a Windows 95 boot disk is no problem. I can float around in DOS...

Hehe, decided to toy around with my 8088 system again, especially after finding a 384KB (I think) EMS card for it. That means that I physically have 1MB; the maximum addressable of the 8088 CPU, except I can't access it. I need to turn the EMS on somehow. I have 6.22 installed, but I was told...

I'm pretty frustrated right now. After trying to get 40 486 motherboards working a month before, and now trying 4 motherboards which were pulled apparently working pulls... and they wont work!!! Is it me? I've had no troubles like this before. I've tried different processors (I got about 20 of...

Hello. Here's a picture (please excuse the poor quality of pic; cheap camera): I have no idea what type of slot the upper memory card is for, and surely with 16 30-pin SIMM slots, I cannot definately throw this away. It appears to be made by Wang, but I have no clue. As for the other cards...

Well, I have decided to go through all of my old cards again, deciding I had too much to ever put to good use. All parts sold 'AS IS', but regarded to be in working condition (if I knew for certain it didn't work, I wouldn't be keeping it in the first place). Items are listed in quantity (in...

Long story short, I got a ton of VLB cards from a recent computer store raid. They appear to be in good shape, but I am unable to test them, so that means they are all being sold AS IS. Will give for price of shipping. The majority are S3 video cards and Goldstar I/O cards (IDE, floppy...

I went to my local computer place to dig out their old vault, which they were going to throw away the contents of. I came home 2 hours later with approx. 40 486, 386 and 286 motherboards with tons of CPU's (8088, 286, 386, 486, Overdrive), and literally boxes of VLB I/O cards, VLB video cards...

Does anyone have any experience with this? In order to successfully use my webserver software (EZ-NOS) and load my ethernet cards packet driver, it tells me that it needs the LSL.COM loaded beforehand. I tried doing this in config.sys file but it freezes my system (I just plain don't know what...

Dunno what it is, but it's ©1989 Tandy Corp. Has a jumper setting on it for either "1 board systems" or "2 board systems". Has 8, 30-pin angled SIMM sockets. It's not worth anything to me so it's yours for price of postage if you're interested. I don't like seeing anything go to waste. Picture...

In a follow up to my post in the General Discussion forum, I'm looking for a good 8-bit ISA ethernet card in working condition and with the RJ-45 connector. Must be compatible with 8088 processors. Please get in touch with me ASAP if you have one lying around as this is for my webserver. Thank...

Just ran into an 8-bit ethernet card made by Micro-Integration which I would like to use if possible, but I can't find the drivers for it as they seem almost non existant. The card seems pretty unique though as it has a Zilog Z80 processor on it as well as a Mosel chipset, it seems. No...

To put it basically, I'm looking for a type of card that will: 1) Work with an 8088 CPU 2) Work in 8-bit mode 3) Still have drivers available on the Internet (DOS packet drivers) I'm trying to get an EZ-NOS server working again with my Zenith 8088 system, and my 3COM cards won't work with...

I'm just curious if any of you'se out there know of any mobos made to handle two 486 processors? While I know for a fact dual-CPU mobos never became widely known until the Pentium dynasty came about, apparently dual-486 boards do exist, but are quite rare as it seems (through my limited...

I've tried looking on eBay, now I'm looking here. Quite basically, I'm looking for a 386/486 laptop that MUST be in working condition and comes with an AC adapter/plugin; no batteries needed. I need said laptop to take notes and work on personal material while at college, and seeing how I do...

Lately for the past two weeks since getting my new system, I have been showing a bit of interest in modding projects. For those who have seen well done system, you could agree with me that they look awesome and the effort put into them is more than worth the effort... Well, I have a spare IBM...