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Hello everyone , Unobtainable documentation ; I’m looking for a scan of the doc of the Iomega zip100plus drive ( that unit was both scsi and parallel ) If you have that in a drawer that would be much appreciated as it doesn’t exist online atm Thanks 🙏

Hello ! One 37kg (I suppose that's 70 pounds) beast landed in my house, a 1985 Telex / teletypewriter model sagem, used in a lot of countries under different names The unit works fine however it refuses to do anything complaining of "telex line", I suppose it wants the telephone network and...

Hello everyone, I'm looking for PDF with scans of the Data General One 2T manual, maintenance manuals, or any manual really. I can't find them on the internet, or I'm not looking at the right places maybe If someone has them and would be willing to scan them, that would be much appreciated...

Thanks to help from @Chuck(G) and the invaluable @modem7 website - I was able to make a 5 1/4 Backpack work again on the parallel port of a Toshiba 2130 (486 era laptop) running msdos 6.22 The documentation of the backpack (the flyer) says this drive should be able to both read & write 360KB...

Hi everyone, I have a done quite a few repairs but I have never tried to repair floppies. I know that there is an entire community around preserving vintage floppies, with specific tools that I have never used, one of which with 'flux' in the name,iirc :) Anyway, I would need to access...

Hello everyone, I revived a Tandy 1100FD and added a gotek in it (as the original floppy, even with a new belt, wasn't reliable anymore) However the disk set that came with it cannot be read anymore . It's a 5 floppy set, probably because this was an international version. Would anyone have a...

Hello everyone, I revived a Tandy 1100FD, this is a V20 (i8088) era laptop After much work , teardown, cleaning, floppy belt replacement, retro bright, it's working properly except for the 720KB floppy drive, that can "somewhat" read half a floppy before doing read errors. They appear at...

Hello everyone, First of I wanted to thank @modem7 for the invaluable ressources he maintains on toshiba laptops (and I've got loads of those) I've started reviving a toshiba T2000. It's a 80286 12Mhz laptop. This repair is difficult because it involves recapping 3 boards (lcd, inverter...

Hey everyone, I've got a nice hx20 that I fully restored/rcapped/etc. Everything used to work perfectly. Until... It crashed in basic (TRAP!, etc), and when I restarted it ; it reports only 2658bytes of RAM I tried everything ; removing the battery, initialise, reset, nothing works STAT ALL...

Hello everyone, I'm looking for an internal floppy for a Powerbook G3 "wallstreet" (300Mhz PDQ) Also looking for a battery (doesn't need to be working, it's for battery repairs experiments) Or a plain and simple broken wallstreet with floppy and battery, for parts. Belgium

I'm looking for a PX8, ideally in good shape, to add to my laptop collection. Alternatively to money I have quite an extensive collection of things so I could trade ( I have apples, powerbooks, compaqs, toshibas, tandys ... )

I'm looking for a floppy for my compaq slt. I'm in europe but I could use a proxy service if needed Actually I don't even know the reference of that thing, which seems to be difficult to find... Any information welcome.

Looking for an epson px8, on a god state, with manuals and roms Shipping to belgium Thanks :)

Hey everyone, I've got this Apple II europlus on my bench since months. After a difficult repair it's now working as it should, however I can't solve what seems to be the last problem with it. The display (may it be CRT or LCD) displays thin vertical lines, ranging from barely visible (when...

Hello everyone I've been trying to add a second drive to an amstrad PPC512, but I think my problem is generic to any IBM PC (8086 era) I've created a floppy cable that is STRAIGHT (not crossed on the 4 pins) and configured a legacy floppy as drive B and a Gotek as drive A This works perfectly...

Hi everyone, I usually don't repair desktops, but someone exchanged me an Apple II Europlus for some soldering repairs I did for him, so here am I with a Apple II with 2 floppies (a thick and a slim) Currently the thing is as dead as can be, and is absolutely filthy (and I don't use that word...

Hello everyone, I might be entering a sub-sub-n iche here, but i'm trying to make the internal modem of my Model 102 work again. I've connected it to a small home phone exchange (pabx) so that I have real proper vintage phone lines ( did I mention this would be of interest to a sub niche ?)...

Hello ! Like every here I have a variety of vintage PCs and others I'd like to be able to start what I would call a "vintage file server" on my NAS ( Synology ) I'd like the thing to listen on a raw TCP port (eg telnet) and server file like a BBS, thru eg Zmodem I know a few of the bricks...

Hey everyone I'd like your opinion on this problem that I see on a lot of my vintage LCD, especially the monochrome ones This is for example taken from a Compaq SLT , but I've got the same thing on a completely unrelated Toshiba T2000 or even a fully recapped powerbook 100 I wonder what is...

Hello all, I'd like to replace the keyboard on my Toshiba Libretto 50CT, altough I feel my question is probably generic to all toshiba laptops. Is it possible to change the layout of the keyboard, eg at BIOS level, so that the laptop understands that it has gone from QWERTZ to QWERTY (or...