Hello everyone! I recently picked up (or should I say, saved ), a DECMate III computer. Unfortunately it came alone, without any accessories. I was wondering what would be the easiest way to get a display for it, preferably gentle on the wallet too! My opt …

If I needed to clear up C0000-C8000 (location of SVGA bios on a NuXT 1.2) might it work to just move the chip over to the option ROM socket (and set it to D0000)? How about flashing it into the 32k free space in the flash chip used for the system BIOS (loc …

Now I'm up and running with the awesome 'Atom-in-PC' card - I'm wondering how I can activate the toolboxes. Is there a command I use to switch banks, or a way to list whats available? Incidentally the full size ISA card proved a challenge, and the only ma …

Upgraded a Tandy SL to 640k and had issues with some programs. So I changed Memory Diagnostics At Startup to "YES" in the EPROM and machine would no longer post. I removed the memory I installed and was able to boot with the original 384k. Have …

Unique opportunity to own a piece of IBM mid-1990s computing history. The ThinkPad 760 series was the high-performance series of notebook available from IBM at the time. The 760XL sub-model was in turn the top of this range, with an SVGA+ screen and incre …

Hi all, Can anyone please have a look at this and suggest what the brand might have been? It's the monitor I got with my 386 I had back in 1991. I think it was an IBM clone or copy, but it had no inset in the plastic for an IBM logo on it) It may h …

Hi all, I am looking to change the usual DOS 80x25 console text mode into something like 132x44 or 132x60 so that I can use more real estate in console-like programs that print a lot of text out to stdout. The SVGA/VESA aspect of switching to these modes …

As per the title - I've been asked to repair a 2MB A5000 which had some quite nasty-looking battery damage, but it seemed to wash off nicely leaving not much serious damage. So far, I have only found one broken trace, which is the one connecting to the po …

I have links here for ATi Rage2/2+ OpenGL drivers and earliler Mach64/Rage1 and Rage Pro non OpenGL drivers for NT 3.51 and we have many NT4.0 OpenGL drivers available for ATi second/third generation Rage cards, but not for Rage2c/Rage3 NT3.51 so directly …

Hi everyone!I found this motherboard: it's a DC386WB, with a mighty powerful 386DX33 on it! It even works!Filename20230516_1656... size307.86 KiBViews41 viewsIt has some signs of a slightly leaking varta battery at some point, but I cleaned that al …

I'm trying to get one of these cards working, but it didn't come with a cable. I wired up a VGA jack to the card based on the pinouts here: ... Mac 6100/66 DOS Compatible – MIDI « modelrail.otenko ... …

Looking forward to trying this classic game, but running into a bit of a hitch. Getting the above error message when trying to run the game. The setup file seems to be only for audio. The readme mentions something about running the game with the "paramete …

“Now computing can be fun and easy for the entire family.” The Tandy Sensation was an early attempt at a specialized Multimedia PC. In this case, Tandy came up with a 25 MHz 486SX computer with a 107 MB hard drive, built-in CD-ROM drive, stereo …