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Looking to purchase a Toshiba laptop, but unsure which models are good.

VCFed about 3 months ago

Recently I've been scrolling around eBay looking for vintage laptops and found many Toshiba laptops in working conditions and within my budget. However, this is my first time looking to purchase a vintage computer so I'm unsure which models are good. So fa …

Has anyone here ever heard of a Panasonic JU-226A diskette drive?

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hello. I wanted to open this diskette drive and clean it before using it, but it does not seem like it can be easily disassembled. It's a 3 1/2" drive, but smaller than a regular one. From a laptop. From peeking through the door, the diskette carriage …

Linux • How to force use of a Wi-Fi BSSID

MISTerFPGA about 4 months ago

I'm temporarily on a network with multiple AP's that use the same AP names (SSID's) but provide different un-bridged IP ranges that can't talk to each other.For this reason I'd like to force the MiSTer to use a specific BSSID (specific AP) so that it can …

Does anyone know where I can Find restore CD images for my late 90's P3 Dell Latitude CPX-J laptop?

VCFed about 4 months ago

My pentium /// 550mhz Dell Latitude laptop is getting long in the tooth. I have been running linux on it for years now but its not really to useful for that anymore either. I was using it for ADTPro disk transfers for Apple II systems but honestly my HP mo …

Compaq & Dell PDA CF-card usage?

VCFed about 4 months ago

I have a Dell Axim X30 and a Compaq Ipaq 3975: I want to use them as MP3 players. What do I need to do to get them to play music? I've put some MP3's on the cards then used Active Sync to do whatever it is I'm supposed to do, but I'm at a loss as to what …

Connecting a JVC 40MB HDD with 44 pin connector from old Toshiba Laptop

VCFed about 4 months ago

I have a 40MB JVC HDD (Model: JDE3848V10-1) with a 44 pin male connector from old Toshiba Laptop that I used 30+ years ago. I'd like to connect the HDD to my current PC to see if there is anything interesting on the drive. (I realize it might be dead, but …

Rebuilding Toshiba T1200 Main Battery Pack (Suggestions on replacement cells)

VCFed about 4 months ago

I've opened up main battery on my Toshiba T1200 laptop, PA7491U 7.2V 2200 mAh, I assume nicad cells. Took a bunch of pictures to help others in the future. I basically cut it open along the seam with a utility knife. It looks like it has some weird leaking …
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Episode 325: February 2024 Games Club Choices

Retro Asylum about 4 months ago

Mads, Mark and Chris dive into their Shameful Retro Backlog. Will Mads try to fry his Laptop during recording? Will Mark be able to edit his 1st podcast properly? Find this out and what games get put forward for February! Thanks to all of ou …

Electronica MC1504 - the only Soviet laptop, clone of Toshiba T1100+

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello, My journey to the land of retro laptops started with this machine that I accidentally bought at the local online marketplace. There's only Soviet laptop has been made, years of production 1991-1994 (according to wikipedia), volume of production is u …

Toshiba T1100+ repair/restoration

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello, I want to share my experience with T1100+ repair. I bought this laptop as donor for another project (Elektronika MC 1504 but that's another story) and been in pretty bad condition - lot of corrosion, water damage, part of power supply unit's PCB has …

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 …
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Gateway2000 Colorbook, Need help

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello, I have a Gateway Colorbook 2 using a 486 and I need help finding a part for it. The laptop is dated 1995 and is missing the HDD caddy which is needed because of it having an adapter to convert a 2.5" IDE drive to a proprietary interface. If any …

Laptop Screen repair part wanted

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello everyone, I have an ALIENWARE AREA P38E laptop but there is a problem with my screen. There are two black lines on the left and right sides. I want to change the screen. I have searched many places but there is no stock. The price here is also very e …

Termcaps for VT100

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello all.. I am not good with Termcaps and I am having an issue with this description. I need to be able to use my "backspace" or "del" key on my laptop to make corrections. It doesn't currently work with this termcap description.. any …

Toshiba T5100 laptop - random freezing during high disk activity (software installs, etc.)

VCFed about 4 months ago

Have a Toshiba T5100 I'm trying to get going, but running into a rather odd problem. Anytime I'm doing anything that involves a high amount of disk activity (such as a software install from floppy to hard drive, or install from hard drive directly), the c …

Does this dead "laptop" have a gas plasma display? Let's try to revive it to find out! Samsung S5200

Adrian's Digital Basement about 4 months ago

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Paid disk recovery services recommendations

VCFed about 4 months ago

Someone contacted the Vintage Computer Federation and they are not local and don't want to mail their floppy disks to us for recovery. I'm aware that there are some services that recover different media, but am looking for reputable companies that we can r …

Problem with Compaq SLT/286

VCFed about 4 months ago

I have purchased a Compaq SLT/286 laptop and, when I try to turn it on, the power and caps, num lock and scroll lock light come on for a moment, they all turn off and it repeats itself, and so on continuously. An internal "clack" sounds slightly. …

Can I burn the Toast ISO for the 9.2.2 CD on a Win10 Laptop

Mac OS9 Lives about 4 months ago

It's all in the title.I might be able to find my Toast bag and set it up to burn on the Lombard, but it'd be very convenient to find a way to do it on my dedicated, quarantined Firefox workstation.TIA,jt …

[WTB] Toshiba T5200 or T3200

VCFed about 4 months ago

I'm looking for a working Toshiba T5200 or T3200 laptop. If you have one and can ship to Delware, then please contact me via DM. Thank you! …

Win98 on P4 systems: COM ports not working

VCFed about 4 months ago

I'm looking for some help to debug an issue I have seen twice now on 2 separate hardware. I am trying to run Laplink from a windows 98 machine to an old 8088 laptop, using serial transfer. I have two different Pentium 4 class systems, both with windows 9 …

8-bit acorn emulators • Windows 64bit and Save States

Stardot about 4 months ago

I’m a complete noob so bear with me.I have recently changed from windows 7 to windows 11 via a new decommissioned laptop from work and loading discs seems to no longer work (crash or kick out) in Elkulator and also save states no longer work, save or re …

Disassembly of a Compaq LTE Lite Series Laptop

VCFed about 5 months ago

While it is my belief that next to the Toshiba Satellite series, the Compaq LTE Lite series of laptops were perhaps some of the best of the premium white-label laptops of the early 90's that were NOT built by IBM. Unfortunately it is still a laptop that li …

8-bit acorn hardware • Converting DFS disc images to ADFS disc images

Stardot about 5 months ago

Good evening learned gentlemenI have recently 'discovered' the OmniFlop disc writing program and can now successfully write ADFS disc images to 3.5" discs.I have several DFS disc images in SSD format but can't work out how to convert them to ADFS using Om …
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Greetings from near Philly, PA

VCFed about 5 months ago

Greetings I'm a new VCFD member having signed up as I work on building a C128 system to relive my fun as a kid when I had a C64 setup. These days my primary machine is a Windows laptop but over the years, between myself & my brother, we went throu …