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Hi all, I bought a pig in a poke on eBay the other day. It's a RAM upgrade board that was removed form a "working" ST. It's called a "Z-RAM-3d/4Meg." by a company called Zubair Interfaces Inc. There was no documentation with this item, but I also bought the motherboard the upgrade was...

Hi all. I have been collecting third party disk drives for the 8 bit Atari, and I finally managed to get a Rana 1000 a while back. The drive didn't work, and after chasing that problem for a week, I finally found an open trace on the controller board. After that was repaired the drive...

Hi all, I have this Sysgen external 5.25" floppy drive, and I have been searching for software/drivers for it for sometime with no luck. Requests for this have been posted here in the past with no response, but hope springs eternal. It's a HD drive in an enclosure with a parallel port...

Hi all, I have been trying to restore this PS2 Model 30 286 I have. I have it working well, but I have issues replacing the hard drive. Getting my hands on an original drive that still worked seemed unlikely, so I have tried to install an SCSI system. I finally sourced a Seagate ST-157N that...

I know CGA snow has been covered on the forum before, but this is a little different. I have a 5160, 64 to 256K motherboard that I use on the bench for testing purposes. I took it out this week to test some hard drives, and I now have snow in the CGA display all of the time. It's there as...

I have an Epson SMD140A, 720K 3.5" floppy drive that exhibits a symptom I hadn't seen before. It works just fine until it gets about half way to the center, after which it starts re-seeking. This gets progressively worse, and will error out before it gets to the innermost track. It has this...

I have been working with the drive from a SF314 external ST floppy drive. It's an Epson SM140A, double sided DD drive. The issue is it begins to stumble on reading a disk about half way through. I thought it was alignment, but it fails to format a disk in the same fashion. At about halfway...

I'm looking for a replacement internal floppy drive for my Atari STf. It is double sided 720K drive with the big central eject button. A broken Chinon F-354 that still spins the disk would be usable for parts, or a working drive of any make. Thanks

I have been playing around with the Atari STf I recently bought, and the biggest challenge so far has been finding something to use a a monitor. I finally got it working with my Commodore 1084 monitor, but I could never get a good display with the cheap Chinese RBG upscaler that worked so well...

I have bought my first Atari ST machine. It's still on it's way to me, but I have a question I hope someone here can answer. This unit is apparently running version 1 TOS roms. I have been eying an external ST314, double sided drive. Will version 1 TOS support double sided drives?

I am looking for recommendations for a Mac emulator for a Windows 10 laptop. I now have need to run Facetime on my wife's i5 Windows 10 laptop. She is very ill, and her far flung family wants to use Facetime to stay in touch with her, but I don't want to thrust an unfamiliar machine on her. I...

Let's say there was a contest for the loudest, most horrific sounding hard drive that still worked. This would be my dog in the fight. https://www.dropbox.com/s/h1t5tznxhvu2gl5/Quantum%20RacketPro.mp4?dl=0

As proof that even the blind hog gets the acorn once in a while, the IBM 5170 I finally got my hands on a year or so ago had this IBM EGA card installed. At the time I removed and stored the card since I did not have, nor felt likely to have an EGA monitor. I had kind of forgotten about the...

I havea memory expansioncard called an Orchid Ramquest XT/AT. This card needs the software designed for it to even check it out. I have found Ramquest utilities online for the 16/32 card, but the readme states it only works with the 16/32 card. My hope is that someone on the forum has, or...

Hi all, I got my hands on this 8 bit multi I/O, memory expansion card call a Peripheral Marketing Fastcard IV. I will hold 2 meg of ram and supports EMS. It seems to work, but I have never been able to find any software for it. Does anyone have, or know where I can find the software for this...

Hi all, I just got a cdrom drive working in one of my 2000HDs. I have had an Apple 300i SCSI for some time now, and finally got around to getting it operational in the Amiga using AmiCDROM software. I am using my Win7 PC to burn the disks, which is apparently the source of the problem (a lack...

Hi all. I am a bit confused about adding memory to my Amiga 2000HD. I like my A2091 SCSI card that provides up to 2 meg of ram expansion for the system because it's the only SCSI card I have that I can get a CDROM working on. The problem I have is I can't figure out how to add another ram...

While shifting some of my stuff to a different room, I ran across three ST-238 hard drives that I couldn't recall the status of. Time to setup my test rig to see what's what. The first drive setup and tested nicely. The second drive just grunted when I flipped the power switch. So I cycled...

I acquired an AT tower case a while back, and I just got around to cleaning it up and building a system with it. I had a socket 5 motherboard with a Pentium 90 already setup for this project. As I am installing Windows 95 I notice there is no mouse pointer. I was using the onboard serial...

I picked up an 8bit memory card last week that will only fit in a 5150 slot. The daughter card is situated such that it bumps into the adjacent slot on a 5160. The slot cover bracket is double wide, like some early cards for the 5150 I have seen, but the bottom of the bracket ends in a curved...