Recent content by AlexC

You're welcome. I used to have this in my autoexec.bat file: REM switch to external display mode, enforce VGA, etc., and set high speed \ast\astivga vga crt color 16bit>nul \ast\speed high>nul I also set Turbo mode on in the BIOS, and the option to disable the lid switch so I could leave the...

I had a couple of those laptops. Really liked them. Replaced the hard drives with CF adapters, used them as silent desktops with a VGA monitor attached. The graphics chip can do good CGA, Hercules emulation, etc. I got the drivers from here...

Here's a screenshot from the video instead.

I have a Juki Sierra 3200 which is based on the Olivetti Praxis 35 engine. Around 1987 I think. Works perfectly as a typewriter and also as a printer, but it is excruciatingly slow (think several minutes per page). I rather like it and use it for simple letters. Currently it's connected to a...

Thanks. It would also be the wrong voltage, unfortunately (220-240V in Europe), but I'm sure someone will take it off your hands.

Looking for a really good Hercules/MDA monitor with amber phosphor, no burn-in and a good, stable picture. Willing to pay well. I'm in Berlin but shipping from elsewhere is OK as long as the monitor is very well packed.

You're welcome. It's always frustrating to have hardware with no software. Those notes are a little out of date, though, as I did much of my testing on a Commodore PC that turned out to have other issues and didn't work too well with the Orchid card. Below are my later notes which should be more...

See thread here for details. Blown chip on the circuit board so it's not working now, but it was working fine before that. Tube is good, no apparent burn-in. Free, but buyer to pay shipping costs from Berlin, Germany. PM me.

I've owned this machine for a few years. It's a big old beast, very well constructed and is mostly working perfectly, with only one known issue. When I bought it there was about 20KB of text stored on it. It was previously owned by a church group and whoever used it knew its features inside...

9-inch monochrome VGA monitor, the sort that were sometimes used in POS systems. Working fine, no sign of instability, then a loud bang followed by smoke and no picture. I turned it off quickly, left it for a while, then dismantled it. I was looking for a blown capacitor of some kind, so it took...

As title. I'm looking to buy a monochrome (black & white) VGA monitor as sold with the Amstrad PC compatibles range in the mid-late 1980s. I'm in Germany but can arrange shipping from the UK or elsewhere in Europe.

I have three monochrome VGA monitors, all apparently 'white' but only one has white phosphor, as far as I can tell. The other two appear to be a composite of yellow and (possibly) blue. It's not easy to tell, except by moving one's eyes quickly while a high-contrast image is on the screen. The...

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As title. Two of these, both working (no click of death) with two parallel data cables but only one mains adapter (takes standard 'D'-shaped 3-pin kettle lead). PM me with offers. I'm in Berlin, Germany.

Tested and working. PM me with offers. I'm in Berlin, Germany.