Recent content by SpidersWeb

Cheers. I will be watching ebay. I see two at the moment, but with their prices, currency conversion, then international shipping costs it's not something I can jump on straight away for untested boards. I was just curious if there was anyway to use it as a DOS PC in the meantime without...

Hey everyone, I figured this was the absolute best place to ask a few questions. I'm sure someone here has messed with one of these at some point. I have a full system, except the display card(s) have been removed. Goal is to use as a DOS PC until I get the proper graphics adapter. Some...

I tried it in different slots, same behavior consistently. The machine is running great with other devices (ATI VGA Wonder, WD Winchester/Floppy board, AST Rampage with 1.5MB, XT-CF), so I'm fairly confident the machine is all good. Other clones I mentioned were a mix of 286/386. I'd have...

Thanks a lot for the clarification and your test. I get F6 on the card. (Edit: and setting DD shows D9) The machine is running great (ran Checkit 3.0, did system board and memory tests up to 2MB), so I suspect it's just the POST card. I've also had trouble diagnosing other clone machines...

Nevermind, I misread, was D9 00 40. Replaced bit 6 and all sorted. Still the documentation says to expect DD, I definiately have D9? Is that normal?

IBM Type 3 motherboard shows, and repeats, D9 40 00 on POST card. No beeps. I think that should be DD 40 00, and replacing bit 14 on the motherboard makes no difference. Is it possible for the IBM BIOS to show a D9, or is that an indicator of my fault? IBM BIOS 11/15/85 Motherboard was...

Your method for recreating the diskettes is how I did it originally. When I got my first Wang Pro (like 2014? 2015?) I found Wang MS DOS 2.11 disk images and wrote them with rawrite for DOS, it booted right up. The first disk image in your System 2.01 set starts with a jump instruction and...

Beautiful. I have good news, in that I have a binary image of the Quantum Q540 that was in mine. I archived the transitions file and the extracted data, which looks legit. It will go on archive.org and be shared but first I want to make sure I get any personal documents off - so does anyone...

Generally I do my best to be time period correct - I pick a date (which may be when the machine was new or say 5 years later), and the type of user, then build/setup the machine like that. When I flick the switch I like that machine to represent a moment in time or a story. But that's just my...

I've been useless/slack/slow at archiving :( but I do have a Wang Pro loaded with Word Perfect, Lotus 123 etc. I stopped using it so I could take the time to find a reliable way to backup the data. I recently just got an MFM emulator, and was going to use that to archive the drive. The machine...

Awesome, I love these things. I have/had three: My good JX is Australian with 384KB RAM (base + 2 memory cards in expansion unit) and three floppy drives. I have expansion unit #19 with a 5.25" floppy installed as C drive. My first was a non-diskette model, with no cluster adapter, it came with...

I have a Wang PC I need to back up, The Wang PC isn't 100% IBM compatible, as such I need to be sure whatever transfer program I use needs to run correctly. but I read that in Kermit 2.26 they added support for the the Wang PC. Does anyone know if the later versions like 3.14 are still capable...

This is a battery backed up clock that goes between an 8088 CPU and the socket. I've put a new battery in mine, but I've not been able to get it to work using common programs. Does anyone have the driver for this thing? It's pretty neat, and would go well in one of my 640KB XT's that don't...

Found it, Quadram Quadboard on https://electricthrift.com/2013/03/31/quadboard-by-quadram/ Image from that page attached, note the attachment box accessory which must've come with some Quadboards

Not my picture, but this is what the original pairs look like: I too never took any photos but have two systems using the original brackets.