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Hi Everyone, Recently picked up a very nice Elite Group SI54P socket 5 Baby AT motherboard, it's very nice :) However I am having some problems finding a processor for it. The usual searches online show up lots of processors marked at 5/7, and I know you can run a socket 5 processor in a socket...

Hello everyone, I've recently come into possession on a Signetics 2650 CPU and want to build some of the projects as featured in old issues of Electronics Australia. Looking through, I have almost all of the parts, the only part I appear to be missing is the PIPBUG ROM. Looking through...

Hello everyone, I have the above monitor, however in storage it's developed a strange fault. I turn it on and I can hear the flyback squeal as normal, then the screen will emit a dull glow, the pitch of the squeal dips considerably and the power led dims, but does not go out. This cycles after...

Hello everyone, just spent a "blissfull" 3 hours installing Windows 95 via floppy into my pentium laptop with a dead CD drive and had a thought. Iomega Zip drives have standard ATA interfaces in them. They also have a parallel port version with DOS drivers... Think it's worth swapping in a low...

Hello everyone, really should have posted here first rather jumping in headlong, so I may aswel post here now :) I'm Mike, I'm from the UK and I have a mild obsession with old computers. I used to be into collecting older systems a lot more when I was younger, then it died down for the past...

Hello everyone, I've been looking for CGA and EGA monitors locally to no avail. However I have found some EGA/CGA to VGA converters cheap online. A few people in the classic arcade forums either love them or loath them saying they're great and useful or terrible with lag. All the ones i've seen...

Hello everyone, I'm restoring an IBM PC 286 that I got for essentially nothing. I have been hunting for one of these for the last 9 years, and i'v very happy. Only problem is the case is infested with dust bunnies and it doesn't work. I've traced the problem with it not running to a bad...