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My Model 30/286 has a dead HDD, so as a replacement I ordered a Blue Lava ISA XT-IDE + CF adapter. I was hoping to get a dual boot install of OS/2 1.0 and 1.2, however I know well enough that even later editions of OS/2 are extraordinarily picky about hard disks, BIOSs, and hardware...

It pains me to do this, but with VCFSE looming ahead, I need to scrape up what I can for the parts I need for my display. Without further ado, I offer the venerable and elusive 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 in darn fine shape and fully functional. This has mainly been a display piece the past few years...

About a year or so ago I rescued a sizable stash of MAI Basic Four equipment - a Dual Universe mainframe/mini/tower something, 3 terminals I assume are ASCII (2 model 4314s and one model 4312), a front-loading 9 track tape drive, two enormous printers, and several manuals for the Business Basic...

A year or so ago, I picked up a fairly nice PS/2 Model 30 286, only problem was most of the caps had gone bad in the PSU. Rushing to try and fix this issue, I committed the unforgivable sin of desoldering the capacitors without noting any of their values or where they went. Ouch. Picked up a...

Just picked up my first vintage laptop today, and boy is this thing a beast (19lbs!). Haven't been able to power it on because the (external) power supply is royally messed up. When I first got it, half-way down the cable, it was hacked in two, and the wires twisted back together with electrical...

Just found these forums the other night, so I'm a bit new around these parts. Would love to expand my collecting, but I'm happy with what I got. Few Apple II machines, few Commodore. I also have a decent collection of operating systems (does OS/2 count as vintage yet?), and that's about it...