I have a number of Indigo2 power supplies that need to be repaired.
It's certain recapping is required, but some additional debugging may potentially be required.
I have not had much luck finding a technician. Might someone here have pointers?
Here are some pics of Desqview/X and Puppy Linux running on the Gateway 486 I restored a couple of years ago:
More on the story here: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?44930-Restoring-a-Gateway-2000-4DX2-50-80486-Desktop-(Warning-Lots-of-images)
I started up the IIgs after a few months and was greeted by this:
I reseated the memory card, tried again, same result. Any idea what might be happening?
Adventures in alternate OS installs on the Gateway continue...
I was able to get RedHat 6.1 to boot and make it into the X-based setup program. Of course, the 1GB drive has just about 120MB left, so I didn't actually go through with the install. That said, at least I've gotten farther with this...
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/commodore-smartphone/?mbid=social_twitter
The Commodore PET is now an Android smartphone running an emulator.
A nod to the name, but a bit of a travesty, really, for vintage buffs.
Got lucky today and found a PCjr still in the original box, with the diskette drive safety card insert still present! The pics will do most of the talking, but I got the IR keyboard, two joysticks, power adaptor and the PCjr system unit itself. No sidecars or other expansions, however.
Without...
An interesting project most may not have heard of previously.
Demo shows:
Battery powered Sirius handheld system based on a tri-processor 8051 design
AlephOS Operating System
Authentication
Forms-based UX library
SD Card support/FAT filesystem
Bitmapped graphics
Multilingual support...
Need these items for a NeXTstation Turbo Color. Would you please PM me if you have these items and would like to sell.
1. NeXT non-ADB sound box
2. Y cable
3. HDD - atleast 2GB, ideally with NextStep 3.3 and apps loaded
4. V74 ROM
I wanted to try Linux on the Gateway to see how usable it would be.
I didn't want to mess with the HDD which has a single dos partition, so I burned a puppy "wary" live cd and tried to boot. The system now has an IDE CD-ROM. Problems with the Sony CDU-33 have been covered in previous pages so...