Irinikus wrote on 2024-02-29, 14:27: https://i.imgur.com/YrycHfR.jpg […] Show full quote That is a seriously cool machine. I personally would go with OS X on it, as the BSD Unix subsystem is such a goodie (if you are into the UNIX/Linux command line thing, which I am). I have an iBook G4, and I …

So... did you buy that Compaq LTE 5000 ?

Slowly we should realise that we just buy stuff for the dump from china. Make no mistake. ALL hardware you buy, is from China. China makes Apple kit as well as counterfeit kit. The quantity of unregulated poor quality products flooding the market for decades is also ruining the rest of the industry …

DerBaum wrote on 2023-11-19, 13:36: Slowly we should realise that we just buy stuff for the dump from china. Make no mistake. ALL hardware you buy, is from China. China makes Apple kit as well as counterfeit kit.

Nice thread, it will be handy for me, as my "new" Compaq LTE 5000 is in the mail in transit to my home, if the seller obliges. I specially liked the detailed discussion on the CMOS battery internals, and the description of the main battery components. Very cool work by the OP.

I have a DOS 3.5" 1.44MB floppy disk which loads the ethernet card driver, then a TCP/IP driver, and then the IBM client for NetBIOS over TCP/IP, so that I can map to a drive letter shared folders in other machines, mainly those other machines are Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Samba/Linux. This way …

My retro 486 system now has a contemporary mouse next to it, as God intended: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-bpasmvOi1vk/T4Ao2_MlB1I/AAAAAAAAAYU/xXeUlHFFQcQ/s640/IMG_3188a.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lvcjkMxKOUs/T4Ao1HZ-8rI/AAAAAAAAAYM/PwRa3NrRIpA/s800/IMG_3188b.JPG https://lh3. …

After having not touched a Macintosh (except to play with a few demo units at a store) for about five years, I now have one again. I payed $40 just over a week ago I must be the unlucky one in the bunch. About three months ago I tried to buy an used iBook G4, and set my maximum bid/price at 100 …

FaSMaN wrote: to share my current project and what will eventually be my main retro PC 😀 Nice project, although not exactly what I would call "retro", it's more like a "demodè" system you're building. 😁

Why are you working with DOSemu to bootstrap that project? Start simple, then add complexity. So get a real hardware DOS machine, and try there. Then, if it works, consider moving to a virtualized environment.

I have a DOS 3.5" 1.44MB floppy disk which loads the ethernet card driver, then a TCP/IP driver, and then the IBM client for NetBIOS over TCP/IP, so that I can map to a drive letter shared folders in other machines, mainly those other machines are Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Samba/Linux. This way …

Can't find one locally. What about the rest of the world? Any links? I am especially interested in Melbourne Area (Monash University) That's where I have all my friends and old classmates. Thank you Jack Are you talking about open-access internet-connected unix-servers? If they are Internet- …

It's got a socket for one, but no BOOTROM installed. I am looking to buy one of those SCSI cards, but I want it with boot capability. The documentation talks about the on-board BIOS being able to service interrupt 13H calls: http://ftp.nchu.edu.tw/Hardware/mylex/manuals/bt445s.pdf (see page 10). So …

7cjbill2 wrote: BusLogic BT-445s VLB SCSI controller Does that VESA SCSI card have a bootable firmware? Just curious...

I have a VESA Local Bus "S3 Trio32" with 1MB of video RAM in my 486 machine , and although with it Windows 95 can only do 800x600 in 16bit color and 1024x768 in 8bit color (256 colors), it is a great card for pre-1996 games in real DOS mode. When doing retro, you have have to go for the real bottom! …

When I click your Picasa link, I get "Sorry, that page was not found." Yes, I don't know why, it happens now to me too if I'm not logged into Google, but the photo album is set to public... Sorry, I'll try to find out how can I fix that. --- Edit: I see now, the nice people at Google are playing …

Try out this S3 DOS refresh rate utility. It should work for 864. Thanks, that utility has allowed me to use my 486 with my 19" TFT monitor at 1024x768 resolution in Windows 95, using its original VGA card which is a VESA "S3 Trio32" with chipset 86C732-P. Without that utility, when setting the …

Hello, first post here. I just got a 486 PC which I am in the process of setting up for Windws 95 and DOS games. This is the Picasa collection with pictures of it: https://picasaweb.google.com/1003929770413259 … 150/486Computer