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it's been a while but I finally had the time and the opportunity to get back into a new vintage computing adventure.
my brother recently gave me a vax 4000-105a that he recovered from his work seemingly put out of service in 2012. he saved it when they emptied a local.
not...
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I have made some futher test since i recieved the new controller card.
So results are that both controller cards are ok.
Next step was to try Norton disk doctor but no luck with this one : drive is reconiced but un able to read partition table or anything else.
I also tried...
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my neighbor who has a fruit packaging company,still uses an old 8088 to control its sorting machines.
this old odrinateur just crached down, as he knows that I a vintage computer fan, he asked me to have a look:
The issue of the 8088 is an disk boot failure (error code 1701)...
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I have a little issue with wordpro 3 plus from lotus.
I'not able to save anything to floppy using shitft clear M (Memorize).
i use a petdisk from where i can read/write from basic.
when i run wordpro the prog askes for printer port and floppy port. from there i am in the prog...
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The petvet switches are set to Basic4.0 80 colum, CRT(PET 8032).
The keyboard is the UK (50HZ) buisness keyboard :
The screen is a large screen :
I have read out the following on zimmer's : http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/PETx/petfaq.html
Is there any problem or not ussual sets...
Hi dave,
Sorry for delay bu i was away for the week-end !
Just for my own understanding of what it takes to update the petvet ! Can you please explain why we need php to create our binarys ?
can you explain the steps ? what is exactly in the update.bin file ?
The part N° of UD7 in my pet is...
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I had reseached the (brown wires) on shematics and it seems that they should be on the board !
As i have annother PET4032 without them and as the 4016 was upgrades to 32 i thought they where modofications !
So the first one runs from UC3/6 to UB1/3 regarding shema and data sheets...
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Thanks for reply !
The program i use is actually stored on my petdisk.
I found it on zimmerman's :
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/pet/utilities/index.html
diagslevak.d64.GZ
The program is called: PET<--CBM RAM TEST.PRG
by list it returns 10 sys1236 so i think there is no...
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I need to find a replacement cmos battery for the GRID 2260 :
It is a VARTA 7.2V 30maH
i was able to find the following on ebay, that may can do replacement ...
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I own a GRID 2260 convertible laptop. Time and date is wrong and hard drive detections seems also to fail.
I dont know how to acces the bios of this machine.
Can someone give me a hint of the right key combination.
Or is there a specific bios programming file like on other grid...
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I iverted the numbers !!!
while I was looking at them all this time on datasheet ! shame on me :confused:
sorry for this mistake i may need to get more sleep !
so regarding data sheet Link
UD3/1 = 4,89V | UD3/2 = 2Mhz | UD3/5&6 = 8Mhz | UD3/7 = 0V 0Mhz | UD3/8 = 16Mhz | UD3/9 =...
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sorry for delay i just did not find time !
The assy N° is : 8032080
Sorry english is not my Native Langauge, so i do not understand wath you are meaning by "high" !
Yes i think so ! the previous owner told me about a short cut on what i assume to be a IEEE-488 port !
He was...
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I try to get work my PET 4016, i recently replaced the video board Assembly but it still does not work.
I was waiting to get an oscilloscope to make some diags!
so here is what happen :
there is no beep by start the computer, nothing on the screen !
i checked the voltages they seems to be...
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Update :
I made an an autopsy on the old ship :
maybe the ship i ordered was new but 10 years ago (stocked) ?!
i will try with the Dallas DS12887 one and then update here !
This may take a little time !
Thanks, Techtatan