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A few months back I got my hands on a Compaq portable, it seems in working order, albeit the keyboard cable is frayed, which I'm going to address at some point. Either with a new cable or some heat shrink. Anyways, reason for the post is because I don't have the means to create the original...

Hey I've just been using this cool little program on my Amstrad PPC. However the spell checker doesn't function. Anyone know if there's are registered version lurking around? I don't imagine it's possible to register it still in 2021 lol

Admins please delete, somehow my phone has created two posts when I initially posted this morning.

I'm playing around with an Amstrad PPC512 and I've been using the stock software. It's not bad, but very limiting and was wondering if anyone could recommend anything else. My first thought was Wordstar, but I want something I can transfer to a modern PC and read with ease. I used to have a...

Hey everyone I'm hoping to get some advice, someone I know is selling a CP-II but he says it doesn't power up, all that happens is the lights bink on and off. I'm not that familiar with the Compaq Portables and wondered if anyone with more experience might be able to offer some insight.

Hey guys So i think I finally found a copy of the Sharp Diagnostic disk but I've got a slight problem. When I first became the proud owner of this machine, the floppy drive didn't work and as a work around I installed a 3.5" floppy drive. It works fine and it's a lot easier to swap data between...

Hey Is it possible to read / write to disks formatted for Apricot computers on a modern, Win XP system?

Hey guys I've seen one of these machines for sale and as I've always hankered for a portable green screen DOS system. I tried looking up on them but couldn't find much, other than a lot of people asking for boot disk. Does anyone own one of these and can maybe fill me in? I'm guessing it...

I've been fighting with my 95LX, hoping I might be able to get my 6MB CF card to work with it. It works fine on the 200LX, but the 95LX doesn't want to play ball. If anyone reading this has past experience with these machines, I'd love some input. Even if it's just to tell me not to bother trying :P

Whats the best approach as a complete newcomer for getting in to these machines? I've been farting around with OS8 for a little while and avoiding the front panel switches all together. Doing the usual thing of playing adventure so such but I'd like to do a little more. Did the PDP8 ever had any...

Hi there guys Earlier this week a began a thread on the forum looking for help restoring a copy of Wordstar 3.40 I picked up. This copy of Wordstar would appear to have been sold for the Apricot brand of computers. I've had little success getting the floppies to work in my regular PC, because...

I recently bought a boxed copy of Wordstar but the 3.5" floppies are dead. I was wondering if anyone might have a copy of this version of Wordstar. Thanks James

Hi guys A couple of years ago, I got my hands on an old 90's IBM 350 desktop computer. It's a lovely little machine, perfect for when I get the retro gaming itch. The only problem I have with it, is that I dont seem able to use an ISA or PCI video card. The motherboard seems locked to using the...

Evening all A friend pick this laptop up for me at a Ham radio fair thinking I would get a kick out of fiddling with it. I've not been able to find anything useful about it online, however the BIOS says the internal floppy is 1.44mb, but it will not read floppies correctly and only formats to...

Would love to get my hands on one of these and was hoping someone might have one. James

Seen a couple of these come up on ebay and I was wondering what they where like. I currently use an Amstrad NC100 for writing my blog, which i link to my PC via null modem cable to transfer files. I've tried looking online but not found much about how or if that can be done with an Epson...

Its been over 14 years since I messed around with an old Pentium system and my brains a little fuzzy on the details. As stated above, I've a PC350 desktop computer, which i've been using to play old games, get my mail etc. I'd really like to get the old X-files game working on it, but the game...

The power board in my Plus is shot and i'd really like to get it working again. Ebay is asking mental prices which I can't justify spending, so i'm hoping a fellow board member might be able to come to my rescue. I'm in England, so i realize the postage from anyone from across the pond might be...

I'm trying to Max out the ram on my Sharp PC7200 I understand I need: 44256 80ns 256k x 4-Bit DRAM However I'm guessing the speed isn't a huge factor. Need about 8 of them to fully populate the board. Cheers James

I'm based in England My old trust Plus as died and i believe the power board is the cause. If anyone has a spare, please drop me a line. It will need to work with a UK 240 volt Macintosh Plus. Cheers James