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Toshiba T1200 restoration + 3inONEder install

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hello everyone, This time I want to share my experience with a T1200 repair/restoration project. I bought the laptop from eBay, it was a bit dusty and came with an original Toshiba power adapter. Thanks to this forum I knew this thing should be recapped th …
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Help with dual-CF->IDE adapter

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hi! I recently bought one of these, to plug onto the IDE connector on my newly bought Goldstar Prime 2C multi I/O card (so that I can use compact flash as hard drive without having to resort to my XT-CF-Lite 4.1 card that I used with my XT): The adapte …

Victor 9000 PSU

VCFed about 3 months ago

So today I got our V9k up and booting again, only for the PSU to fail As its the hard drive version, the PSU is version 2 and significantly different from the one in the service manual. Does anyone have a drawing of the 100750-02 PSU ? …

Complete Clean WANG LVP2200 System

VCFed about 3 months ago

Moving Sale -- I'll be listing a few other mini's and peripherals over the next few weeks/months. Here's a complete clean Wang LVP2200 system, including the following: LVP2200 CPU (all cards present), SA1000-series hard drive, 8" Floppy Drive. 2260C …

Symphony IDE controller??

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hi! I'm a newbie here, just getting into retro PC builds. I recently acquired a Gateway 2000 486DX4/100 machine. It has a WD Caviar 2340 Intelligent AT drive, a NEC CD-260 CD-ROM drive, and this odd little IDE controller by Symphony (photo of an identic …
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Power Macintosh 5500 /275

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hi, I have a problem with a Power Macintosh 5500 / 275. Nothing shows on the screen. It does the start-up chime and it might actually be working, but the screen is probably dead. There is no hard drive and no battery. Here is a video: https://drive.goog …

FS: PS2 horror and system w/HDD, Modded Sega Saturn white system bundle (region free, FRAM, modchip)

Neo Geo Forums about 3 months ago

Paypal only, USA and Canada shipping only, I reserve the right to discriminate, no trading at this time PS2 fat system, SCPH-30001 model, stock unmodified unit (CD and DVD discs work) with official PS2 HDD/network adapter + 500GB 7200rpm seagate hard driv …

FS: PS2 horror, Modded Sega Saturn white system bundle (region free, FRAM, modchip)

Neo Geo Forums about 3 months ago

Paypal only, USA and Canada shipping only, I reserve the right to discriminate, no trading at this time. DM me if interested in buying. PS2 fat system, SCPH-30001 model, stock unmodified unit (CD and DVD discs work) with official PS2 HDD/network adapter + …

FS: PS2 Silent Hill, Modded Sega Saturn white system bundle (region free, FRAM, modchip)

Neo Geo Forums about 3 months ago

Paypal only, USA and Canada shipping only, I reserve the right to discriminate, no trading at this time. DM me if interested in buying. FS: PS2 horror games - Silent Hill 2 CIB (black label) [disc in good shape] - $130 USD shipped - Silent Hill 3 CIB (n …

Installing & booting OS9 from USB drives on 1.42GHz 2005 eMac?

Mac OS9 Lives about 3 months ago

Hey, I'm new to the OS9 community, I only recently got this eMac for free from my school. I have OSX Leopard running on it just fine, but I want to run OS9 on it too. Unfortunately I don't have sufficient space on the hard drive, as I want to keep …
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Need help—IBM 5162 can't boot from the XT-CF card!

VCFed about 3 months ago

My IBM 5162 has a damaged hard drive. Every time, I had to use a floppy to boot it. I recently bought a MINI XT-CF card. However, my IBM 5162 can't boot from it. Using DOS 3.3, I fdisk the CF card and erase all partitions on my Compaq Prolinea 4/50 (whi …

Altos 586 firmware versions, syscall interface, and CCP/M-86

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello. my first post here. Still figuring out how this works, so please be understanding -- eventual breaches of the etiquiette are not intentional. I got a mainboard and a hard drive board from an Altos 586 computer. Just the bare boards acquired on e-b …

Project Compaq Portable 286 for Trade

VCFed about 4 months ago

I am looking to trade away a project Compaq Portable 286 for an IBM 5150. Please see the pictures (in Imgur) and notes about the machine below. Let me know if you have any questions or offers. 1) I have not used the 3.5 floppy drive; however, it does not …

LPT to IDE interface

VCFed about 4 months ago

I just ran into this thread, mentioning a backpack hard drive. I know about external CD drives that can be connected to the LPT port but never heard of ones with HDDs. A quick search let me to a Moldavian site but I think they don't have it anymore: " …

BACKPACK CD-ROM to BACKPACK HARD DRIVE

VCFed about 4 months ago

I used to own a backpack Hard drive. I dont know what happened to it. I may have lost it, or it broke many years ago. I cant remember. I still have two Parallel port CD-rom drives which work (one is the backpack burner, external cdRw) and an external 1.44m …

IBM PS/2 Model 30 ESDI Hard Drive or XT-IDE

VCFed about 4 months ago

Greetings, I've recently acquired an IBM PS/2 Model 30 with a dead ESDI hard drive. As these drives are getting harder and more expensive to find, I was wondering what folks thoughts are on trying to keep the system original, or if I should grab an XT-IDE …

ComVEX - Commodore Los Angeles Super Show (CLASS) • Prizes, freebies, and for sale at CLASS 2024

Commodore.ca about 4 months ago

Whoa! Thanks to Larry Anderson of the Silicon Realms BBS, we have a really great raffle prize -- a CMD hard drive with SCSI2SD adapter (replacing mechanical SCSI drive), SD card at 4 gigs and partitioned, v2.80 ROM, external power supply, instruction boo …

Error When Upgrading Hard Drive

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello Again: Sorry for all the questions, but here is another one. I recently got a Seagate ST51080A Hard drive, and I do know that I need to use a drive overlay software. I have a Packard Bell Legend 610. I have EZ Drive on a bootable floppy, and I ha …

Grid Gridcase 1520 floppy drive!

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hi Everyone I've got a Gridcase 286 laptop and both the hard drive and the FDD are faulty. It's a really cool design machine but they've essentially integrated fairly standard looking IDE and floppy drives directly onto a flat riser board with no cables b …

(Almost) every record holder for the world's smallest mechanical hard drive in one photo

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello, today I have reached a new milestone in my collection. I am but one drive away from having every record holder for the world's smallest hard disk drive in my collection. The missing drive is the HP Kittyhawk, a 1.3" mobile IDE drive introduced …

Norton System Information fried the XT-CF-Lite in my 5160?

VCFed about 4 months ago

So, playing around with the XT system that I am putting together piece by piece. After succesfully plugging in and configuring XT-CF-lite 4.1 card, installing PC DOS 3.30 to my CF hard drive and playing around with some games in composite CGA mode, I decid …

IDE SCSI 50 PIN to USB adapter

Mac OS9 Lives about 4 months ago

having trouble finding a way to connect my old hard drive to my 2022 macbook pro.  That drive was in my Power Computing PowerBase 180. Looks like it was a SCSI 50 PIN DRIVE. Any suggestions? …

WTB: IBM 8525 PS/2 Model 25-286 or 386

VCFed about 4 months ago

I'm looking to buy a later model PS/2 Model 25 with 286 or 386 processor and color VGA screen in nice, working condition. Preferably with hard drive and ethernet. Also interested in original disks, manuals, and IBM SSK (space saving keyboard) to go with it …

MicroVAX Drive list

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hi everyone I recently acquired a MircoVAX 31000-40 with a empty hard drive and I was wondering what was the Saveron Prompt command to list drives because I was planning on installing netBSD since I can’t get my hands on vms for vax. Thanks for the help …

Atari ST / STe • Rolling Thunder - Can’t get the disk version to load

MISTerFPGA about 4 months ago

I know that the ST version of Rolling Thunder is a bit crap (it’s a Tiertex conversion after all ) but I’d like to play it again for a bit of research. Anyway, it’s not on my hard drive image and the disk version bombs out. Has anyone else managed …