That is one nice laptop! I used to have the same but with a black-and-white lcd and simpler components. Sold it to a guy who needed to program a controller in an old electric car.

Man, this machine is getting so slick, I love the cable management. Also I find this thread really fun and inspiring! Regarding the turbo action, I think I read somewhere that Turbo Off just inserts wait states between the CPU and RAM or similar. If you need to lower the performance I believe it is …

Allright, some more pictures. Welcome to my den of discarded diamonds, freed from the doom of destruction... in other words I got most of it for free during the past decade. There are a lot of 486 stuff here, which brings me back to my 90's childhood. Also I've got some piles of parts and software …

This machine is a Compaq Portable 286. The lid that looks like an optical drive is just a 5,25 inch floppy drive. I'll describe this computer in more detail later, when I get it up and running.

Hi guys, let's see if I can upload pictures from my phone... this is just one shelf in my shed. I am hoping to make some posts about some of my hardware. I have been too busy with life and similar unnecessary things, so the vintage computing has been set aside for too long. But not any more!

If you have a way of writing physical floppies from a computer that can browse the internet, I would recommend the "all in one" bootdisk by Michael Schierl. I have used the "smart boot manager" from that disk and successfully booted various Linux distros and even Win XP on any computer that would'nt …

I think I will return to this thread more than once, just to look at those pictures. It is so nice to see all that PCB stacked so neatly!

I can confirm the need for parity ram in these DEC's, I've got one myself. I put in a 32MB parity SIMM and the computer recognizes 16 megabytes. Quickly explained, parity RAM is has 9 bits instead of the usual 8 bits. The last one bit is for double-checking so your data shouldn't go corrupt that …

Nice build, vetz. Good to see my old cabinet again! 😀 This would have been top notch back in the day.

Yeah, sorry GL1zdA, we will have to obey the forum rules and take it somewhere else. I made a new topic on V C Forums if you are interested: http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showt … ade-or-giveaway

OK, thanks for the heads up! 😀 Also, thank you carlostex for your suggestions. I wouldn't dare aggrevating a Vogon, as it might read some of its terrible poems aloud. 😉

Hi all, this will be my first post on this forum, though I have thought about registering a long time ago.. Also, I must say I adore the forums references to the awesome tales from Douglas Adams. I have read all five of the four books of the trilogy, expept the sixth one. ;) I am quite interested in …