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Recently, about a month or so, someone ask about it. I cannot help, but I would like to find this post again, and I am unsuccessfull. I tried **** A LOT *** of ( even advanced ) search with the following keyword : 686, PCI/PNP, Award, BIOS, Intel, ( 40 pin qfp ), TL866 and did not find this...

HELP Please ! I have an SBC, Pentium 4 based, that does not boot. POST code is "infinite short beeps" I tried a LOT of fixes, without succes... ( exchanging RAM, cpu, etc ... ) Then, I REMOVED the CPU and get the same beeps sequence I think : STRANGE, should be the WDT ..... But this one is...

Need Help : "Direct" Print screen, under DOS and EVEN under "BIOS outputs" ??? If my memory does not fail, on vintage PC and Tandy / RS, one was able to "directly" Print Screen to the printer, command was something like : "*" + Print screen . Well, is there NOWADAY a simple way, to dump the...

I would like to connect it to my PC/XT but first of all, I have a question on the drive itself. I understand that a 851 is able to "decode" HARD SECTORS through photo-transistors But what I do not know : Does that means that this drive can ONLY read/write HARD sectored diskettes or can it be...

Spotted on Ebay today ...... RARE, but seems (very) expensive to me !! If any interest ... link : title is complete for a search on it. Not affiliated etc, etc .... ;-)

Spotted on Epay : http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dysan-8-in-Flexible-Disk-hard-sectored-1-pc-used-/281847552165?hash=item419f6c58a5:g:BiIAAOSw9N1VwktF Of interest for someone ?? Not affiliated with etc ..... ;) BTW : Am I in the good file for that kind of post / information ?? PS2 : Seller has...

Obviously NOT mine ;-) Could be interesting for HP collectors. http://www.ebay.fr/itm/HP-9885M-8-INCH-FLOPPY-MASTER-DISK-DRIVE-/331699887978?hash=item4d3ada9f6a:g:QeUAAOSw7hRWOlhG As far as I know, that was the first 8" drive that one could connect to an HP 2100, 1000, 21Mx ....etc ...

I have searched the blog and did not find anything :confused:. Does someone have an ( old ) PLOTTER, connected to his vintage PC ? I was surprised that a search with " HP ( or HPGL ) PLOTTER " did not show any results ?? Did I miss something ??

About a month ago, I bought a 5155, quite dead, said the previous owner. To avoid any ( more ? ) damage, I did not power it up and decided to visually check it, first. Upon opening, it appeared very clean inside and also very basic : 256 K memory,in 4 banks, on motherboard 2 x 5.1/4 disk...

Almost All is in the title .... Then ... Who own and "may be" ;-) use one ?? How difficult ( and expensive ? ) is it to get the 8" specific cartridges ??

If of interest for someone : http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400660712604&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:FR:3160 on TWO eight inches floppies. This vendor has also, NON DEC stuff : BORLAND TURBO DEBUGGER TURBO C++ and CPM/M DIGITAL RESEARCH 1978 8 inch FLOPPY DISK but seems, in my...

I would like to ask the following. Where do you suggest I post it ?? ( THIS file is, so far, the only one I am used to ... ) Who was the first company to offer HARD DISK to small ( personal ) computers ?? I emphasize : HARD DISK, either included in a small personal computer OR offered as an...

Did someone ever lubricated ( oiled ) fans on a PDP 11/23 ?? The ones I own ( so far without working noise !) do not appear allowing such maintenance : No rubber "cap", as I would have guessed, but kind of metal cap. Any suggestion ??

Hello all, Does someone ever make this connection ?? It would be nice, both to check the RX 01/02 unit AND then to "download" DEC sofware on 8" diskettes but, I think, some dedicated driver ( under DOS ?? ) is required. Any path to follow for that ? Thanks !

This old 486 PC has been on a shelf for 10 year. I re-started it today. Lights , fans, etc ... goes up and the computer beep as the HD is missing. The problem : Display is Black, saying : "NO SIGNAL" The monitor is good, tested on another PC The video card is a "stand alone" PCI / VGA card. How...

I mean : WHO is using it : - with Floppies, BUT more important, WITH MFM HARD DISK(s) ??? Said another way, **IF** I go this way, will I be alone ??

Not about egg and hen ! :p Yesterday, I was instructing myself about DEC / PDP SID Hard Disk. ( Which seems pretty large, size speaking, for that area ). Then a question arise : How these drives related ** TIME FRAME WISE ** versus the smallest size ( DEC ) MFM drives ??

Hello all, I think I am going to join your wonderfull and very technical community :) Sure, it gone be a good time !! I very recently bought a "naked" PDP11/23 PLUS Naked, because the ONLY card it has is the asynchrone com. card !!. I will, I hope, fill it later but, by now, I am checking...

Original 5 1/4 floppies, available on ebay, affordable : $ 10 Does this "trigger" any interest for someone ?? http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190881850789&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649#ht_347wt_1115 Of course, I am NOT affiliated with the vendor, in...

Two questions, please : - When one wants to transfer data to another ** person's ** PDP, what is, the most COMMON medium used ?? - paper tape - punched cards ;-) - 8 inches floppy - DEC tape - "adapted" 5 1/4 floppy - ???? Second question : How "COMMON" are PDP booting from 8 " Drive(s)...