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    VAX 4000-105a disk troubleshooting

    Hello everybody 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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    need some help on a 8088

    Hello everybody 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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    need some help on a 8088

    hello everybody 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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    ?save a file with wordpro 3 plus on commodore pet?

    Hi everybody 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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    Pet Vet & Pet Disk Issues

    hi 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...
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    Pet Vet & Pet Disk Issues

    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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    Need help to get My pet 4016 work !

    Hi everybody 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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    Need help to get My pet 4016 work !

    Hi Dave 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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    GRID 2260 Bios acces

    hi again 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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    GRID 2260 Bios acces

    hi everybody, 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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    Need help to get My pet 4016 work !

    Hi again 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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    Need help to get My pet 4016 work !

    Hi everybody 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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    Need help to get My pet 4016 work !

    Hi 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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    5IEM M1O1 motherboard manual or jumper settings needed

    maybe the following is not a commercial version :rolleyes:
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    5IEM M1O1 motherboard manual or jumper settings needed

    hi again 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
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    5IEM M1O1 motherboard manual or jumper settings needed

    Hi Thanks for quick reply !:) Hope the Photo helps ! Kind regards, Techtatan
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    5IEM M1O1 motherboard manual or jumper settings needed

    Hi everybody, I'm try to get work and old computer for a friend that do not want to change from it. The message on screen always says : Cmos battery check failed. there is no CMOS battery on this motherboard, only a chip called "odin OEC12C887" that does the clock work. I already replaced this...
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    Commodore Pet 4016 Video board Assembly

    Hi everybody ! I'm new here in this forum ! I try to get some help ! here is the problem : I was changing the video board Assembly of my pet 4016 ( the old one was completely destroyed and disconnected by the old owner). I was able to get one on ebay, and now i need to know how to connect it...
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