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    Epson SD800 not fully working

    I have a curious problem with an Epson SD800 floppy drive. It's a half height combo drive with a 3.25inch floppy drive (mapped to A in the BIOS and set up as 1.44MB) which appears to be fully working (which is to say, whilst I haven't tried formatting any disks in it I was able to install...
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    286 feeling sick.

    I have a 286 with a nice clean board, and which seems perfectly happy to work for ten minutes (or, at least, long enough to boot and complete a level of Xenon II) - but then it freezes. On rebooting it decides it only has 64k and goes no further. I've tried swapping memory chips around (sadly...
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    Coaxing a Pentium II to use a CF adaptor

    I have a Pentium II based PC for nostalgias sake, and I'd like to be able to get files onto it quickly from a more modern machine. After all, if I can pull off this trick with an XT (using a CF to 8bit ISA adaptor), or with a Mac G3 (using a StarTech IDE to CF adaptor) then it should be a...
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    MTM Scientific Retro PC

    I've just built mine - and the board looks good. Good enough to frame, which is what I might have to do with it if I can't get it to work! The problem that I'm having is that I get no video. I'm using a Paradise PEGA1A card and trying to use the composite video ports - but I'm getting no...
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