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Eek, opened my Series 7 model B up, assuming I'd just need to clean and do the RIFAs, but all the internal plastic is in a terrible shape - the board looks fine; just the plastic is terrible; pitted everywhere, and that side of the PSU!
#retrocomputing

Anyone familiar with DOSBox and crashes of Windows 3.11 apps?
This app installed fine but it's throwing this. I tried a few different CPU settings in DOSBox but it happens regardless if it's a 486 or Pentium or whatever.
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Been working on a Toshiba Satellite T1910 (vintage laptop) which had a dodgy floppy drive. 2 drives and 2 goteks later I've worked out the issue was the flat ribbon cable I was using! 🤦‍♂️ Needs to be the twisted type; pins are reversed. Will defo write this up for other poor souls when I'm done! #retrocomputing

Yeah!
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Yeah!
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Watch me clear off my dining room table and reassemble a Toshiba Satellite T2130CT from 1993.
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Oops,
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#RetroComputing an old #SunMicrosystems buddy in New Jersey is cleaning out his basement collection of (mostly) working systems Ultra 1, Ultra 10, V210, V65X and Cobalt Cube. He says the only issue could be the drives on the V65X. Anyone want to go and get anything before they go to …

Pentium Compiler Group
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Damals, als Außendienstler von Versicherungen noch Pocket-PCs im Köfferchen dabei hatten. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #ti74

What *should* a floppy drives read data look like (5.25" single density, BBC DFS) ?
Both my Model B and a greaseweazel are failing to read the two disks I've tried at all at the moment; does this stream (off pin 34 on the interface) look sane? I don't currently have a known-good one to reference.
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I managed to get HP-UX to boot on the HP9000/370 in the Virtual OS Museum on macOS, but running under two emulators, it’s unfortunately way too slow—I barely managed to type in the uname command.
I wonder whether it’s any faster with MAME running directly on macOS…
#retrocomputing #hpux

Anyone know what happened to harkeofficial? Her youtube hasn't been updated in months, her tiktok is private and has no followers. Her instagram is gone.
I hope she is well but I doubt anything good has happened. I always assume stalker. 😬
#youtube #retrocomputing

anyway here’s an old computer
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Win95 setup: prove you own windows 3.11!
Me: you are booting on a gateway solo from 1996, installing an OS from 1995, and the current system time is in 2026. Of course I fucking own Win 3.11!!!
#retrocomputing
#Windows95

@… Based solely on this video title, I thought you'd like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7mc-D5V4L8

RE: #retrocomputing

This prediction from The Micro User magazine in January 1985 about where home computers might go, and how computer-touchers might still have different attitudes than the rest of the population, turns out to not actually be a thousand miles short of the mark.
#Retrocomputing #BBCmicro #futurism #TheMicroUser

I managed to get HP-UX to boot on the HP9000/370 in the Virtual OS Museum on macOS, but running under two emulators, it’s unfortunately way too slow—I barely managed to type in the uname command.
I wonder whether it’s any faster with MAME running directly on macOS…
#retrocomputing #hpux

I managed to get HP-UX to boot on the HP9000/370 in the Virtual OS Museum on macOS, but running under two emulators, it’s unfortunately way too slow—I barely managed to type in the uname command.
I wonder whether it’s any faster with MAME running directly on macOS…
#retrocomputing #hpux

Are you aware, that the very first Docker release already was 13 years ago, in March 2013? #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #docker

#Commodore #C64Ultimate #RetroComputing #C64

Auf einer meiner Folien hatte ich meinen ersten Computer, den KC85/3 erwähnt und dann stellte sich heraus, dass im Archiv der Schule noch genau ein solcher Computer zu finden war, und zwar mit ordentlich Zubehör und Software.
Da habe ich nicht schlecht gestaunt !!
Heute hatte ich keine Zeit, aber ich will gerne wiederkommen und versuchen, das Gerät nochmal in Betrieb zu nehmen.
Interessiert sich hier jemand für #DDR #Retrocomputing ?
( @… ?)

My Greaseweazel arrived today - in a conveniently sized cardboard box - which it was easy enough to mount it in.
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Einen Joystick selber bauen ist eigentlich ganz einfach. Man braucht als erstes eine Brotdose. #VCFe #VCFe25 #vintagecomputing

Combining #towelday and 5.25 day (OK, so that's american dates, but I've not got any 25⅛" floppies).
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When did you last clean your 40/80 switch?
Go on, do it now.
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Vor einem knappen Jahr habe ich von einem Bekannten einen A500 nebst einem großen Pappkarton Disketten und ein paar Büchern übernommen. Ich war lange unschlüssig, was damit anfangen. Vor ein paar Tagen dann der Entschluss: wird über die nächsten Jahre gemütlich vor sich hin restauriert und modernisiert. #vintagecomputing

Hth does a Cumana set of dual 5.25" half-height drives weigh 5.8kg?
It's got two separate (small) transformers for some reason; did NEC make the drives out of depleted uranium?
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Some Friday evening #retrocomputing
#RedHat
#RedHat5
#linux

This old guy is a fancy one for an LS isn't it.
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Does anyone have any service manuals/schematics/etc forr NEC fd1055 (or fd1050/1053) 5.25" floppy drives?
I've got one that's giving a disk fault 18 - which I think is not reading a sector so could be anything from alignment upwards; but occasionally gives a drive fault 10 (index sensor??)
But then again it could be the beeb it's attached to; so hmm suggestions welcome.
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Oh, Floppy Time! #vintagecomputing #c64 #floppy1541 #retrocomputing