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Discussion of older computers and consoles in the UK
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IBM 8025 crash
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It looked like it had crashed.
It was sitting in a side road, in Central London, in the gutter, with a few
other ancient bits of office hardware.
It did cross my mind to rescue it, but on a closer look, there wasn't much
inside, and the side panel was missing :O)
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Rogues gallery for AGP cards.
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I'm trying to identify an AGP card that is fully enclosed in an aluminium shell (with twin fans), there are no external markings whatsoever - there's nothing that amounts to a model number with the shell removed, but it has a large Nvidia FX chip under the main heatsink. As well as the regular VGA... more »
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Assuming a 20 pin ATX PSU counts as vintage.......................
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Once or twice I've got away with splicing the extra 4 pin block onto the existing wires of a 20 pin PSU, so what's to stop me hotwiring the 24 pin connector on the print side of the MOBO?
I could've sworn I had a spare 24 pin ATX PSU - But some inconsiderate git seems to have "borrowed" it!... more »
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28C040 Flash ROM from old AT boards.
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A while ago I sorted through the tea chest full of old PC boards and found numerous boards had flash ROM onboard. Before scrapping the tattier examples, I harvested any flash ROMs there were.
Unfortunately (so I am told) these ROMs can't just be written to like a standard static RAM - also unfortunately, I've been unable to find any... more »
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Nascom 2 and Tatung Einstein
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I wonder if there are any owners of any of these two machines here
with an interest in sharing knowledge and experiences.
I have very recently been fortunate to acquire an example of each of
them and both are in working order; the Nascom just needing the video
'snow-plough' modification.
The Nascom 1 was the first computer I built in the late 70s quickly... more »
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Byte magazine.
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Just had a read through the wikipedia page, and although I had half an eye on the TV, I couldn't find much if any mention of Steve Ciarcia.
I found an online repository of Byte magazines - from the early days there's very few missing issues, but the collection seems to get increasingly gappy... more »
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PC-XT FDD BIOS.
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Does the 3.5" MSDOS5.0 install set have a bootstrap loader that the XT BIOS can read, or do I have to obtain a DOS5 set on 5.25" 360k's?
Thanks.
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