Recent content by alfadb4004

Will buy mouse #3 and mouse #5. TX

Thank you for updating this ROM pack. I have the 4952 joystick and curious which ROM supports the drawing capabilities of the 4501?

The ACT Apricot Portable had some basic form of speech recognition/control in 1984. Wow. ACT deserves more kudos for their industrial design work in the early 1980s. Curious - did you get that mouse/trackball to work? I have one but missing driver/utilities.

Ha Mr. Wizard! That Vectrex GCE pen was indeed early (did not know until you posted Mr. Wizard video). I recall two others around the same time: Gibson and Symtec. More historical context: http://vectrexmuseum.com/vectexlightpen.php

Indeed...I never heard of the Victor and now realize it was a Chuck Peddle creation (Sirius 1 / ACT lineage). This eBay item seems to be in excellent condition.

I have both the 8" 10mb and 20mb carts, and the drive cleaning kits. I am in the middle of refurbishing a couple of Alpha drives.

Thanks for uploading v4.6, v4.7 to fetus. Appreciate it. I also have a Bernoulli Box 10+10 CDS/PC-20 and working to refurbish it. My box did not come with a utility disk...(driver, utility programs). Does v4.6 or v4.7 support this old 1983 box?

Thank you for the clarification! Makes sense to maintain community quality.

Hi. First thank you for putting in the effort to migrate the Forums to this new platform. Much appreciated. Minor: In the migration, I lost the ability to create new "Direct Messages" to other Forum users. I had this ability on the old platform and used it for over a year with good success...

In Message Center (/forum/privatemessage/index), when I select a message conversation, the web page (/forum/privatemessage/view/1205490?folderid=29019) does not show the message content from the other user in the conversation. This has now occurred for 3 messages. I know the messages have...

I recently repaired a Xerox Star mouse and an Apple Lisa mouse. I enjoyed the experience even though it was a steep learning curve for me :-). I am now on the lookout for more mice (broken preferred) from the 1970s to the early 1980s. I am also interested in stories, useful articles, and in...

Spotted on eBay...a first generation Colby Walkmac portable (Macintosh conversion from the 1980s). https://www.ebay.com/itm/Macintosh-Conversion-Walkmac-from-Colby-Systems-Working/193747790896. Appears to be in surprisingly great condition, seller has cleaned, lubricated, tested it.