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Excellent YT series:
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IBM 5151 monochrome monitor "tired"?
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the long persistence phosphor is by design
Sep 19, 2023
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Radio Shack back?
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It starts with: So far, that I can tell every attempt to revive a brand on "nostalgia" has resulted in a lot of schlock with the brand...
Sep 3, 2023
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DOSKEY for DOS3.31
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that version is very good indeed, but it requires dos 5 or better
Aug 31, 2023
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DEC RX02 Diskettes
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BTW, I've found Dysan and 3M among the most reliable in 8" media.
Aug 27, 2023
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The 29160 has a HD50 SE connector on the rear bracket. I did find the solution to the conundrum, however. Since I'm not trying to boot...
Aug 19, 2023
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New ROM-based XT Real-time Clock support - Looking for testers
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PC-DOS 3.2 supports setting the system time/date from the RTC at boot, but NOT setting it back to the RTC with DATE/TIME commands, I...
Aug 19, 2023
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Also, GLaTICK only scans for the clock at POST time so it'll never try to poke around while DOS is running. I read about RAM (and...
Aug 17, 2023
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Discovered RTC bug in PC DOS 2000 / IBM DOS 7
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Finally got around to making a fix for PCDOS to fix the issue! This patches IBMBIO.COM, replacing the `AAD 16` instruction that's...
Aug 17, 2023
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Small +5/+12 disk PSU?
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If you're referring to the 4869 enclosures, I ended up using a Mean Well PD-25A in one of mine. It doesn't meet your specified amperage...
Aug 16, 2023
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Not all versions of PC-DOS have the issue. Only 7+
Aug 16, 2023
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Oh I'm sorry I misunderstood the error. That message is windows TRYING to load the himem.sys, but it cannot because there is no XMS...
Aug 13, 2023
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You need to load himem.sys in your config.sys, if you haven't already. There is a version that comes with windows, and depending on...
Aug 13, 2023
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SCSI Blue Ribbon SE connector+terminators cheap
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good deal but I tend to stick with active terminators, just makes it easier to mix and match different SCSI generations
Aug 5, 2023
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I have one theory regarding the 1390120: Looking at the 1986 IBM 5160 BIOS code above, after the normal keyboard reset it appears to...
Aug 5, 2023
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