Hello,
May i ask please to reupload the Orchid PCTurbo manual?
sure, I zipp'ed everything I have: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7WUfxkvYRCMa2ZuZ1VpeTF2b0U&authuser=0
Hello,
May i ask please to reupload the Orchid PCTurbo manual?
sure, I zipp'ed everything I have: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7WUfxkvYRCMa2ZuZ1VpeTF2b0U&authuser=0
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7WUfxkvYRCMa2ZuZ1VpeTF2b0U&authuser=0
I’ve had both versions of messages may I know where you got the software? Was it also from pers post. I’d be interested if you have anything different to me or software.Your post has inspired me to dig out my (also not working) 286e! I don't hold out much hope as I received it with the 286 LCC chip inserted the wrong way round. I've replaced the CPU, but suspect the previous orientation didn't do the board much good. In trying to get it up and running I also did a lot of searching and was never able to find a 286e manual.
One thing for certain however, is the board won't like the EGA card. Are you able to try with the original CGA card from the 5155?
Any DOS version pre-5.0 should be fine though.
Also, how have you got all the jumpers configured? Attached is my board setup.
This is the message I get after running my TURBO.SYS. Is it what you get?
PCturb0-286e System Version 1.26 06/05/87
(c) Copyright 1986 More Computing. All Rights Reserved.
DISK CACHE 2.22
(c) Copyright Orchid Technology 1985, 1986
PCturbo-286e Card not responding. Please check all board
jumpers and try again.
Now executing on host machine.
Interesting, not sure why the pics didn’t attach (actually just tried again and too large) probably me rushing out a reply. Yes I have the ems extension also. I believe my card is the one that turns up on a Google search as it was the same for the eBay listing that I bought it from.Yes I think they are fundamentally the files from Per and then his posts and possibly some old usenet posts on how to setup turbo.sys etc. I've attached them to this post, just copy them to the root of a bootable DOS 3.3 disk.
The issue with EGA is covered in this post, and is a problem for these accelerators that don't have a ribbon connection to the CPU socket.
https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?t...8-to-80286-isa-coprocessor.44266/#post-550077
I think you could get an EGA adapter that connected to one (or both?) of the 40-pin headers to get around that limitation.
Did your photos definitely attach as I can't see them? If there are three boards it sounds like you might have the EMS/Extension memory which is cool!
Awesome glad to hear you have some equipment.I've seen some of those but definitely not all, so thanks for collecting here!
The fact your board doesn't work either, might mean it's an age related failure which hopefully we'll ultimately track down. I'm also hoping Per notices this thread as I'm curious if his board is actually still working.
I'm currently testing mine on a bare bone setup on the bench.. 5160 256kb motherboard, PSU, CGA, floppy controller and Gotek with a bootable DOS 3.3 disk.
Two next steps for me -
1. Confirm whether the original or my new LCC 286 actually works. This board is the only thing I have that takes that form factor so I've ordered an LCC68 socket which I'll try in an old 286 motherboard.
2. Attach a logic analyser to see what's happening at startup, particularly if power and clock at least are getting to the CPU. My CPU also gets hot (while doing nothing) so pretty sure it's getting power.
Might be a few days before I get to this but will post my findings!
Is there more information about your turbo card. Do you mean that you made a turbo card?Yes, I have heard about it, but never actually seen one. I have the equalent 286 version which works in much the same way. It even seems to be using the exact swame gate array, so the manual may even be very helpfull for me.
These cards doesn't replace the CPU in the host computer, but it rather uses the host as a "southbridge"-style I/O manager. The turbo card is more or less it's own computer, allthough it uses some basic resources from the host. It works surprisingly well for most programs, but programs that use a lot of low-level code may have issues running on it. My 286 version can even run a program on the 286 on the card while simoultaneously running a program on the host, but then things may easily get out of hand.
Not sure who this was aimed at but all cards are Orchid PCTurbo 286e revisionsIs there more information about your turbo card. Do you mean that you made a turbo card?
Thank you very much!Thanks to Paul (th3bar0n), he got a copy of a new card with software and manual. I’ve upload this to vogon drivers:
If anyone has the original card and this works for you then please let me know.
Yes, the card I have was just a Orchid PCTurbo 286e. The card I was speaking about was the earlier 186 version also from Orchid.Is there more information about your turbo card. Do you mean that you made a turbo card?