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Hi, I had to post this. Although for the experienced guys here, this might not even be worth posting. Surprisingly I did not find much about this, so maybe it might help others to do a very easy fix on a retro mainboard. What was the problem? The other day I pulled out my trusty working...

Hi, this is not a request for help; I just want to document my repair of a Commodore PC40-40. It seems that the mainboard is quite rare and maybe this thread helps somebody else to repair his machine. I did not find much information about that machine and board. There are no videos on Youtube...

Hi! I just purchased a giant computer, a NCR 3279-0202. It is a 286 with (I guess) 640kB of RAM and a big, fat ISA-card, which contains (I guess) serial, parallel and some graphics stuff. The mainboard is this one: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ncr-model-3279-0xxx-pc8-rev.-03-92 In this...

Hi again, this is another repair thread, this time without needing some help and with a happy end :) I spent so much time with that bloody machine and I want to help others which maybe have the same issue. It is about an IBM 5150. It boots, but always shows a "Parity Check 1" - after...

Hi, I just purchased for 25€ a CGA card. I did not find anything on the web, therefor maybe this community can help. It seems to be a CGA card. I put it into the 5160 board which I'm working on (see my other thread) and it works very well. Previously I used for this another full length CGA card...

Hi, this is my first thread here. I am from Austria and into vintage computers of all types, especially the ones of my childhood: Commodore Amigas and C64 and so on. But I already have also a lot of classic macs and some IBM clones from classic 8088 to Pentium III. A friend of mine has even more...