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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. 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...

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...

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...

Hello. I need to watch MP4 videos for work I'm doing. I'd like to watch them on a laptop but unfortunately mine is not powerful enough to play them, so I'd like to get a new one. I don't have a lot of hope that I'll be able to find one within a reasonable amount of time, but what I'd like to...

I bought this Olivetti P500 from Italy. I was expecting the worst but it didn't arrive in that bad of a shape.. It's a 386SX Microchannel PC from 1989. I believe development on it started in 1988, that's even the copyright date on the motherboard, but it was released in '89. There are a couple...

Hi. I have a question about transformer capacity. If I have a transformer rated for 200VA (~1.74A), and I hook up a 2A load to it, what is gonna happen? Is the load gonna get starved of current? Basically is the capacity a cap? Or will the load still get all the current it wants, function as it...

Hello. I found a dehumidifier. I'd like to run it but it's extremely dirty, there's a thick layer of brown tobacco on the radiator. The coils in front block access, and the fins are extremely fragile, so I don't know how to clean it. I'm afraid pressurized water could bend the fins, even from...

Hello. I'd like to add RAM to my computer but unfortunately it won't take more than 4GB. In the 80's there were expansion cards that added memory to your computer, beyond what the main board could take. Do modern equivalents exist?

Hello. I was wondering what you guys' opinion on this was. I remember back when the internet was good I used Internet Explorer. But it became buggier and buggier with the increasingly ugly websites and some eventually blocked you from accessing their ugly websites with it, which was very nice...

Hello. I am assuming many of you guys keep backups of large amounts of data. What would you say is the best media to store data? Right now I have DVDs and an hard drive, neither of which I trust. DVDs have their problems and hard drives are known for failing at any moment. Is Blu-ray any good...

I bought this Olivetti P500/E from Italy. The P500/E is "more commonly" known as the M300-25. "More commonly known" as in no one has ever heard of both of them, but on the chance that they have, they'll know about the M300-25 before the P500/E... I also don't remember seeing "P500/E" in...

I found this computer at an antique store. I paid 60 dollars for it which is ~ what old Macs are worth. It came with a power cord (neat), a telephone cable (neat), an Apple Extended Keyboard II with two broken keys ( :( ) and two telephone talks ( :confused: ). These are little gray boxes that...

Hi. Does anyone know why the riser cards on IBM PC series computers have a power connector? Unfortunately I've had 3 of these computers, but I don't remember if the power supply was plugged into them by default. I seem to remember that they were never connected, and I just hooked up the power...