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I've got a pile of Mitsubishi M4853 floppy drives laying around at home so I thought it would be fun to connect one to my "old" (quite the relative term I suppose) K6-2 PC. Unfortunately, from what I could determine anyway, the floppy drives I've got are all based on the Shugart-34 standard...

I'll be receiving my first RaspberryPI later this week and while looking over the documentation and tutorials on the net, it seems like quite a simple and versatile platform. Actually, I find the arm assembly to be easier than the x86 one. So I was thinking on starting a project to keep me...

I once had an external dual floppy drive unit from my Tulip but only one unit seems to actually work. I cleaned its head with izopropyl alcohol, hooked it up to a K6-2 PC and inserted the only 5.25 inch floppy I had (a Misco Colour Plus, 1.6MB diskette if it matters). I set it up as a 1.2MB...

To be frank, I've never been a fan of Apple's post-PowerPC era products but I've always been fascinated by their earlier computers. It so happens that I stumbled upon someone willing to sell a Performa 5200 together with a batch of documents in the town I'm currently spending my university time...

Apart from the Tulip (for which I'm still waiting vacation to build the PSU), I don't own any other vintage equipment, nor do I posses any experience, apart from said computer. Software-wise, my knowledge goes back up to general DOS usage, as for hardware, the oldest standard I know is the ISA...

Well, I got bored one day so I thought on doing something special, inspired by what others have achieved. Admittedly, its not as awesome as Still Alive played on a 8086 (don't have that much knowledge), but I had fun doing it. I booted both the IdeaPad laptop and the Prescott into DOS and...

I always wanted to see how I could "squeeze" all the juice from my old PC, taking advantage of more recent technologies. Basically, I have a 300MHz K6-2 on a Super Socket 7 board (100MHz FSB, AGP x2). I was shocked to discover that a Geforce 6200 with 256MB of RAM actually works on it (with the...

I know that there are lots of external factors involved, but I'm not worried about those. What I'd like to know is, considering the age of such a floppy, isn't there a risk that the floppy might lose its magnetic properties and become useless ? I'm asking because the only way for me to run a...

I always wanted to do something interesting for DOS, and retro-graphics sound like a good idea, not to mention that I have several ideas on how to do several special effects, like world reflections or transparency that I'd like to see done in 2D. It would also be interesting because I could run...

Well, this thread is both a call for help and a background story one, so it would fit in both PCs and Clones and here. If any mod considers this placement wrong, please move the topic. The Tulip System I - CompuData's first PC It all started probably 13 years ago when I was just a...

I never expected to find a active vintage computing forum (probably just bad luck), but I was happy to find this community on the recommendation of a BetaArchive member (linuxlove). I mostly enjoy old software and alpha/beta builds, but I'm afraid that what I see as old looks pretty new for...