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A follow up I posted on HackerNews: Again, former VCFederation (Mid Atlantic and National) volunteer here. I was only a volunteer when...

Folks, as is always the case, there is much more to this disagreement than has been made public. Jason is angry with VCF East, which is...

I've had lots of fun at VCF East so far and thought I'd share some thoughts. I hope this is the appropriate place to post this thread...

A couple of things to understand about the Compaq Portables video card. The default CGA card from Compaq was able to display CGA...

Oh i hear you. I am constantly repairing. Honestly repairing is the main fun. I can fix these all day long.

Thanks for playing! You folks are exactly correct of course - it's an MDS-220. I've never tried to fire it up but I might even have...

Fair enough! I don’t do much repair work so buy caps as I need them.

I’m not sure I got much further than what’s in the pics. Maybe it was the trace damage I was thinking of or i did take off the cap and...

I was debating this myself and think I will go with the cheaper Adlib card. Will be a nice addition to my machine.

I think this will be the final update on my P70 project. I opened the case back up to examine the video board caps. They look pristine...

These are the only two I have handy right now:

I still have the broken drive. Yeah the corrosion was pretty bad, I recall the pads being gone on at least one of the caps. I might have...

I replaced the final 3 bipolar capacitors on the floppy drive this morning and retested. It works great. I started cleaning the...

Thanks for keeping it updated. A while back, I played around the STORE install scripts on my 3b1 so they updated the "installed"...

fixes were rolled back into: https://github.com/philpem/freebee