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I do observe and search, however I have an odd one.
An IBM Model-F keyboard, the space bar came detached, and will not re-attach properly but to the metal bars coming free from the keycap slots. Is there any way to re-attach this without disassembling the keyboard? The keyboard is...
Good find, Bigger questions are...
Does the firmware allow you to use the keyboard for power on?
And
Does the USB port supply enough power to run an IBM Model F?
I'd like to be able to do it without modding a thing if possible as I don't have the tooling to do so.
Is there any way to coax the stock Xebec do it, or no go?
It's probably time to let that drive rest in silicon heaven. It sounds like something is damaged, if the platters were dirty it is possible that while the heads didn't crash they could have gotten scratched somehow?
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I have come across a few NOS ST-506 drives, and got one to work in on of my 5160s on a WD controller. I would like to make one work in my 5150 on a Xebec controller. I've searched the forums, however my search-fu is definetly not black-belt, more like just walked into the dojo...
8-bit XT card that functions like XT-IDE, but from 1992. Works well
2 questions
Can I swap its onboard bios chip for one that contains the XT-IDE rom?
It's got a 4-pin moles male connector, but what is it supposed to do? I get power, but it for power to the card from the psu, or to power a...
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The project i have been working on is making some progress except i am at another empasse with parts
I have gotten a Headland 256kb 16-bit VGA, the Headlands work nicely in 8-bit slots, the guy on ebay i purchased it from did not know that, i got a really good deal.
My needs for...
I am now searching for the half height mount bracket for the IBM PC / XT.
Also
Either an EGA monitor, or a multimode monitor *No i am NOT paying the EBay tax for this..*
*EGA Mono is rather... disappointing**
Got one for my XT build
I had forgotten how slow they were when handling HD disks.
Why is this? What kind of trickery do they employ to read the HD floppies?
It appears to access the drive with twice the time as when bolted to a 16-bit controller.
Is the card slowing the drive down to half...
Before i go ahead, i know this has been brought up before, however i may not be searching properly.
Question:
My 5160 is rejecting 2M-XBios.exe a:1 b:4 /13, on each boot
It loads the driver, then hangs, cursor blinking in all its glory *only thing on screen*
I have swapped out each board - to...
Just got 4 3.5" floppy drives and a Silicon Valley Computers IDE card circa 1987, things got a very small chip count.
But my question is this
2 of the drives
A Teac 235hf
A Sony MPF420-1
Both have jumpers on them that appear to control how the drive figures out what high density is, either...
720kb drive wants to format to 360kb all the time. Will read 720kb fine, but will only format to 720 through driver.sys. How do I rectify this?
Also,
1.44mb media formatted to 720kb returns data errors constantly. Is there a difference in media recording surfaces and magnetic output of the...
This weekend, i went down to Hillsboro from Seattle and got some things.
1-IBM 5160
1-IBM 5150
1-IBM 5151
3-Boxes of books
The 5160 had the following
Half height Teac FD55-BV 360k
Seagate ST-412
2x memory cards - An IBM 64-256kb memory expansion with 256kb on it, and an Everex EV 183 with...
New beastie came in the post today
A full length Multitech MGA/CGA/EGA adapter - At least that is what the description
The model is a Multitech PB85005-2A
Has 8 16kb chips on board - so 64kb, and a rom.
.
I'm wondering if this thing is Hercules capable, but can't find squat on it at all.
What...