I got a Compaq Deskpro 2000 P166 WITHOUT MMX yesterday and it was apparently owned by the FAA. It had a multi-serial card plus another serial/lpt card plus the built-in one. It runs just fine but of course the battery was dead so I replaced it (why do they …
Here's my small contribution to this project:MiSTer PC XT BIOSIt's a fork of well known 8088_bios (https://github.com/skisele... PC XT related enhancements:Memory size set to 704KB. So if A000h UMB enabled, 704KB memory will be available to …
For decades I have this Philips P3302-850 386 PC with Co-Processor 387
Mem 18432 Total, 640k + 17408 ext + 384k extra
Holds 2 extra long special mem cards.
Thing is battery fail, so replaced the 6Vdc.Batt.
Harddisk is a Micropolis 1558 ESDI
Should be ;
c …
Would anyone here happen to know of any sort of in compatibility between GNU mtools and old versions of MS-DOS? I'm writing a tool that generates bootable hard disk images and everything is just fine from 6.22 down to 4.00 but 3.31 and 3.30 won't boot in …
Hi everyone,
for all the IBM PC/AT afficionados, I came up with a small software stub that allows to load a BIOS SETUP utility inside the ROM BIOS of an AT - a machine that normally required this to be done using an external SETUP disk or application.
Thi …
I got this Chips & Technologies based 286 mainboard with 1MB onboard DIP RAM and have been trying to add another 4MB (4 x 1MB 9-chip SIPP sticks) for a total of 5MB - so far with no success.Similar boards with this chipset have just one or two jumpers …
Life is strange... Instead of working on USIT Athena I just acquired one more "patient".It's the perfect example of second generation laptops, which shaped this class of machines almost to a modern form, at least as far as we speak about form-factor.Wel …
