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Hello. I wanted to open this diskette drive and clean it before using it, but it does not seem like it can be easily disassembled. It's a 3 1/2" drive, but smaller than a regular one. From a laptop. From peeking through the door, the diskette carriage and top head appear to be part of the cover...

Hello 1ST1. Sorry, I'm pretty rusty on the Olivetti stuff. Back in 2014 it was really difficult to find pictures or even mentions of certain Olivetti models, as it was difficult to find people that knew about them. But now, as I see more interest in their old products, I kinda took a back seat...

What's the picture? I'm guessing that it loads the tape, but fails to turn the reel. Are you able to rewind or fast forward? I don't recommend that you mess with a broken VCR with a cassette that you like. Of course. These were devices that were meant to last a couple of years without breaking...

I have that version. Maybe the problem is only with expand. Yeah perhaps it doesn't.. But it's :cool:

You don't get it. MS-DOS Player runs in the command line and is more integrated into the environment. For example, the mouse cursor that you use is the OS' one; If you plug a USB flash drive into the computer, whatever program that you launched will see it even if it was launched before the...

Yes a combo unit, that's what I was thinking. These were often made in styles not found in regular TVs. Such as, in the case of yours, white plastic (never found on regular TVs of that era) and commands arranged in the style of a remote controller. It has a wooden swivel? Now, I'm not sure if...

I think I got it from emulationrealm.net (https://emulationrealm.net/downloads/file/3251-ms-dos-player) It should work fine on my system? Isn't DOSBox a weird emulator-thingy with a built-in operating system? I already have VMWare Workstation Player installed if I want to use such a program...

Hello. MS-DOS Player is a 32-bit CPU emulator or something, that's supposed to make it possible to run DOS programs in a 64-bit Windows operating system like 7. It does succeed in launching the program expand, however any backslash entered turns into a right parenthesis. Because of this, expand...

Yes it's really beautiful. The silver-coloured parts give it a very clean look, and the black bottom part that juts out is an interesting idea, that I don't think I've ever seen elsewhere. I'm not surprised that it still turns on, since it's so recent. From experience, 60's TVs still work. 50's...

115CS? Cool, it looks like an older model. Are there any signs of corruption on the motherboard from the leaking batteries? Our problems are not exactly the same however, as you say that with your 115CS the screen is what stopped functioning properly. On mine, it simply does not boot. What do...

Hello. I'm looking for keys for my Ogivar 117870-001 keyboard. It is a rebadged NMB RT102. The layout of the keyboard is Canadian Multilingual Standard. The keys it is missing are the following: escape - F1 - F2 - F3 - F12 - print screen - scroll lock # - 9 - home left ctrl - right ctrl Here's...

I see. I tried that mode before and it didn't work. Perhaps this was the fault of the batteries. So I'm guessing that a laptop from 2022 has two internal batteries too. It's weird how a 430 is an older, mostly inferior product to a 320, right? I don't understand Toshiba's nomenclature.

Did you find it? According to a seller on ebay and this: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/heath/2005-December/020464.html it's a rebadged MC6821 Peripheral Interface Adapter. https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Datasheets/MC6821%20NMOS%20Peripheral%20Interface%20Adapter%20(Motorola).pdf

Hi. First of all I know that this laptop is pretty recent for the forum (late 90's, Pentium, Windows 95), so feel free to move it to the off-topic section if its presence here is too offensive. This laptop worked until I tried it one day and it didn't anymore. When I turn it on the status...

Hi. I'm just wondering who made the Olivetti BIOS. I think their first computer to feature it was their first IBM PC-compatible, the M24 right? One day I saw a very weird and rare "Intel" computer on eBay that had a BIOS from Phoenix Technologies. To my surprise the POST screen was basically the...

Hello. I'm just wondering what happened to the factories where disks were made and why did the workers seemingly vanish. I think even Canada made disks at one point. What happened to the factory? And I think the last disk factory in the world was in Japan. What did they do to it? Did they scrap...

I am looking for disks, preferably 20 of each type. 5 1/4" 360K, 5 1/4" 1.2M, 3 1/2" 720K, 3 1/2" 1.44M. Preferably clean and free of bad sectors.

Hello. I'd like to create an image of a Quantum ProDrive 40 S (the S is for SCSI). I have never dealt with SCSI before. I have an 8-bit ISA controller called a Corel LS-2000, or LS2000. More info: REV C, built in 1992, 1.65 BIOS. It's a relatively simple card. Other than the BIOS, NCR 53C400...

Hello. I am looking for an HP Vectra VL 6/400 Series 8 DT computer. System number: D5882T. It's a Pentium II desktop PC. Personally I'd consider Pentium II stuff to be the last relevant era to this forum but sadly I think most would disagree :cry: that's why I'm posting in the Off Topic...

Hello. I was the winner of the Olivetti PCS 286 auction. You can ask me questions about it if you want, but I don't know a lot myself. The PCS 86 and PCS 286 were the first models in the PCS line, Olivetti's new lowest-end lineup of computers. They were released either in late 1989 or early...