Greetings VCF. I have not made a real forum post in a while. I'm getting tired of the format of FB groups and Reddit so I'll start posting a bit more here.
This is my Packard Bell Legend 2276. I would consider this to be my "unicorn" PC. It's the same as the original PC my family purchased in...
I have been working on this thing all morning basically clearing the chicken in egg (need to run configuration disk / won't read drive because configuration disk has not been run) problem
A few observations. This thing is either 16 or 20Mhz (Not sure) But it's faster than my Model 25-286 with a...
Alright guys, I have been working on my favorite nostalgic machine for a while now and finally have got the rare bits I needed to make it a more capable machine.
After looking for a year for 4MB of special PS/2 RAM it finally popped up, and if you have a PS/2 model 25 or 30 I suggest you look...
I picked the EZ Flyer up a few weeks ago from a thrift store for $6.00 sealed, literally brand new. It's been pretty awesome for my PS/2 model 25 and 25-286.
I have a 20MB hard drive in my 25-286, but my other one (the V30) has no internal storage.
The biggest challenge was making a boot...
I have been doing some pondering over the schematic for the PS/2 Model 30/286. It's about the same thing as my model 25. I have noticed a few interesting things:
The chipset is a VLSI VL82CPCAT-QC and is capable of 12Mhz operation and zero wait states with 80nS RAM. :
The PS/2 Model 25/286...