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What always kept me from the 386, is it's use-case similarities with the 486, but the lack of the things that made the 486 objectively better, when ti came to "retro". Right now I have a 386SX-20 that also has a 486 Blue LIghtning CPU in it, and I can say, that Blue Lightning with a...

Ah, another NanTan FMA3500 - this time a FMA3500SX, in the less common gray color. I've had a couple of these, I have a 3500C currently. First, I'm surprised nobody familiar has mentioned that these don't come with a normal 4-pin molex for desktop hard disks like we are used to in most cases...

On the manuals, the cool thing about those is there's a Windows 3.1 "online" manual for most of the Versa models that was put in a NEC program group. As in, they put the entire user guide in a help file, I think it's on the NEC utilities diskette for the P/75. I got that when I downloaded all...

On the screen front, that's rad, now I want one of those. The P/75 is a perfect DOS gaming laptop TBH. I guess maybe NEC made the 800x600 9.4" panel for awhile and went to a larger 640x480 panel because the 800x600 9.4" panel can be a pain to work with in windows sometimes due to the size of...

Could have been an unknown option. I think at one point I was about to buy the unit you bought. I was basing it off of the LCD screens I was finding on e-bay. Unless of course, the panel can do 800x600 and somehow NEC pushed their utter limits and managed an early Active matrix panel that can...

Yeah, those NanTans always break at the hinge. All of mine had the compression hinge slightly loosened to protect it from happening again. Strangely, the M/75 with the touch screen does'nt have this issue because it's got that huge honkin Circuit Board down the right side of the screen for the...

Most 386 and up hardware won't support more than 2 floppies in the BIOS. I dunno if there's a way to implement in software, but I do know one trick that MIGHT work. I used to have a 486 with a SoundBlaster AWE32 in it, and the AWE32 had an ATA compliant IDE controller on the end of it. I...

DOS can access the internet fine via Links. It's really funny since DOS is easier to surf the web on now than Windows 3.1x is, lol. Links has TLS 1.2. But it needs a 386 SX with a co-processor, or faster to work. That said even with that it's low-risk because no Java, no Flash - Links is...

Could be. NanTan/Kapok seemed very inconsistent with their screen makers. It also seems most DSTN/STN screens had a pretty standard pinout (one thing I've been doing on my website - though I need to get back to it soon, is documenting pinouts for LCD's to find out which LCD's are compatible...

Because I actually do use the laptop, and while it's not the ideal, My favorite activity is tricking them out. I'm not 100% replacing the drive, I may later remove Stacker and rebuild that HDD with my own standard setup of MS-DOS/WFW311. It's an FMA3500C, so it's color. It seems the Sanyo...

Over Christmas I ordered a set of those 194 style LED Bulbs for me and my wife's cars - big lot of them from a US Shipper....had to cancel and get a refund because a month in it still was not shipped and never arrived. On a positive note, ordered a sustainer system for one of my guitars (a...

Well, I did use BS And SUperglue for bonding in the brass screw anchors into the plastic on my NECs, as well as my FMAK9200. However, with screens, I have 2 tricks I use to loosen the hinges.... On my NEC Versas I usually use a cheap Daiso store chisel to loosen the clip on the end of the...

I'd give Baking Soda & Superglue a go. I've had luck with that on my NEC Versas. The Exothermic reaction melts the plastic together. I've got a NEC Versa P/75 whose entire bottom half is held together with that stuff. My M/75 is not far behind. @JamieDoesStuff - I don't think I even took...

Ah yes...I wrote this in a bit of a quickie....so I might have missed it good catch. Here's some of my experiences for some real life examples.....and maybe why I might have missed some things. 1.) The Drive speed makes sense, I think I forgot a recent experience I had with my Deskpro 386s/20...

Here's my rundown with this as I had some mess-around time with these recently and my mind is quite fresh... 1.) Older hard disks 528MB and under should work just fine regardless. However, you will want to look up the jumper settings for those sorts of drives because back then not everyone had...

PC Mag has been probably one of the most valuable sources, and is really the only reason I get on google books TBH. Glad to see someone's putting it on Archive.org through as I've been trying to de-google-fy my life for awhile now. A LOT of the ripped NanTan and NEC Versa pictures on my...

Here's all known working solutions I've used for this.... 1) Use FTPSRV in mTCP on the device that needs xferred to, and then use FileZilla or another FTP program on the Windows 10 machine to xfer files. I do this all the time in Windows, Apple, and Linux. 2) Setup an internal basic FTP Server...

Yes. 30 pin SIPs and 30 pin SIMMS (which are electronically identical, it's just the connection type that differs) utilize an 8-bit Data Bus Width. most 386DX and all 486 systems (SX, DX and their clock double/triple variants) use a 32-bit memory address bus, so the SIP/SIMMs (8-bit 30 pin...

Well, if it's any help....if you still have the 486, that was my first 486 hard disk and I still remember the CHS and can guide on the CMOS battery issue as well.... MAXTOR 7120AT HEADS= 936 CYLINDERS = 16 SECTORS = 17 PRECOMP = 0 or 65535 (depending on your BIOS) LANDZONE = 936 If you could...

Old 1993 Power Supply would work great for powering the drive. My USB 2.0 Drive kit I have came with a power supply w/ a SATA converter connection on it so I could also plug SATA drives into it as well. But maybe they don't do that anymore. I was referring to using an older machine with an...