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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.
#retrocomputing

Today my CAD digitizer arrived. I'm going to pair that with my 486 running Microstation 5.0.
Then, unexpectedly, I went to my #retrocomputing meetup and somebody just dropped a gift for my PS/2 model 30 286 in my lap - a 386 upgrade RAM expansion card. I had no idea what it was, but it was like new and had all the manuals and disks.
[edit: actually add the pictures…

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

My beeb series 7 was having heat problems, so I bodged some heatsinks onto the CPU and onto the infamous 245 next to it (which was getting well over 50c in a few mins)
The series 7 case has the back vent mostly covered to stop junk going in.
Hmm the wire ties aren't really satisfactory.
#retrocomputing

Watch me clear off my dining room table and reassemble a Toshiba Satellite T2130CT from 1993.
#retrocomputing

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

Ooh, found my dad's slide rule; I guess I have to learn how to use it now!
#retrocomputing

You know it's serious #history when you get a blue plaque. #edsac #retrocomputing
BBC News - Blue plaque awarded for Cambridge computer creation:

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

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

Just typed in a RAM test program on my Series 7 BBC Model B - it passes clean; hmm - doesn't explain the instability then.
Also, I don't seem to be able to (reliably?) write to a floppy - hmm. save file, *. and find it's nto there. Hmm. Tried formatting and it's verifying bad. So some more debug todo.
(Also, hth did I type so much on a Model B keyboard, the keys are HARD)

Added a heatsink to my Beeb's video ULA as well as the CPU and 245. And here's Frenzy running from Replica now that I sorted that double stepper out.
#retrocomputing

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

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

Screenshots of my beeb series 7 yesterday booting off my restored Cumana floppy drive. The last one, the Teletext editor is I think by my high school Maths Teacher at the time.
#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

Combining #towelday and 5.25 day (OK, so that's american dates, but I've not got any 25⅛" floppies).
#retrocomputing

When did you last clean your 40/80 switch?
Go on, do it now.
#retrocomputing

This old guy is a fancy one for an LS isn't it.
#retrocomputing

who did it best?
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Some Friday evening #retrocomputing
#RedHat
#RedHat5
#linux

Lazy Sunday (Commodore 64-style)
made with @…
#retrocomputing

Did you know? IBM stands for “Itty Bitty Machines”
#retrocomputing

I’d pour one out for VARTA today, but they’re doing that by themselves
#iykyk #retrocomputing

I also lust after the Commodore-64 version of the keyboard. Absolutely identical to the others, but that colour scheme and font!
#8bit #RetroComputing #C64 #Commodore64

I've just learned that #8bitdo have released an #IBM #ModelM edition of their fabulous range of retro keyboards and I am definitely here for it!
#RetroComputing