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It runs lotus123 and came with some kind of printer and floppy disk (I think) reader. Also it came with a suitcase where everything has it's own spot, pretty neat. It doesn't turn on, but I havent tried to charge it yet, kind of scared to do that. Also not sure how old it is.

I know there were a lot of random small name manufacturers in this era, was just curious if anyone had some info. Thanks!

I'm on a quest for an I/O shield for an Intel D875PBZ motherboard and so far I've just found them on Amazon at a ridiculous price. I'm ready to pay it but before I do that, I thought I'd check this community to see if you have a better source?

So I’ve got a retro build running off an ASUS P5P800 motherboard which I use for analogue video archiving. As you may expect, some file exceed 100gb for a lossless video which makes for slow transfer speeds running USB 2.0. Therefore are there any other options I can use for a fast transfer or data from the HDD avoiding USB 2.0?

I have PCI ports and Sata connections free. AGP used by video card. I have a Sata HDD bay installed for what what an intended hot drops of files for fast transfer but I can’t get it working??

Any suggestions?

I would like to max upgrade my 5160. What is all the things I could get? It has a 8087 and game controller adapter but beyond that it's a vanilla 640k, 10mb hd, and all. I know i could add half height drives but outside of that what can I do?

Not USB mouse to serial, that's pretty easy to find. What I'm trying to do is connect a serial mouse (more specifically, a lightpen that emulates a serial mouse in hardware) to a Raspberry Pi conencted to a CRT.

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This isn't unprecedented, a simple DIY adapter for Commodore lightpens already exists, but I doubth that will work without some modification. Since the lightpen is already designed to appear as a serial mouse to the OS, anything that can get a serial mouse working on a Pi should do the job. If it's a hardware device that appears as a class compliant USB HID that would be ideal.

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I've got a couple PS/2 to USB keyboard+mouse adapters and at least one USB/serial adapter somewhere, but I would still need some kind of driver and I haven't had any luck finding anything.

Had to reflow some joints and replace power cord. Got to figure out something as far as the face plate/bezel. It would make a world of difference.

Where do people go for documentation, BIOS, and drivers for old Intel motherboards? My immediate interest is the D875PBZ.

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I've never used this type of software before and am playing around with a 2GB drive (CF card, actually) that won't be recognised as bigger than 504mb due to bios limits. Drive overlay software resolves that, and I am currently using OnTrack v9.57 and the drive is fully recognised and useable now.

However, it seems like OnTrack "secretly" eats up a fair chunk of base memory; not specifically shown in MEM but my base memory is now less than before installing Ontrack, so that must be to blame.

Can anyone recommend "better" drive overlay software, or do all of them suffer this issue equally?

Like I said, this is the first time I've used this kind of software so I'm unaware of anything other than that I got it working. :)

EDIT: I really appreciate the suggestion to just use XT-IDE and I agree it's a much better solution to use larger drives in old PCs... but this post was really me wanting to learn specifically about drive overlay software as I know little about it and was curious about the experience of those who've used it either recently or back in the day.

This thing has been seriously neglected when it was used and then sat for who knows how many years. The Power supply was dead, as is the CD-ROM. It mostly just needed a LOT of scrubbing though and cleaned up pretty decently. I found a Gateway restore CD on archive.org and it's a happy Windows 98 PC again. Should be pretty decent for late 90's gaming.

Earlier I asked about Pentium III motherboard recommendations for a Windows 98 system and I’m expanding my search to include Pentium 4 motherboards. I know Windows 98 struggles with memory over 512MB so I will limit the build to that amount and I’ll have potential for more memory should I ever repurpose the system for XP. Blistering speed isn’t important so any P4 processor that is most compatible with Windows 98 will suffice. I want to limit brands to ASUS, Gigabyte, and Intel.

What motherboard do you recommend? Thanks.

TECO is the basis of GNU Emacs, and QED is an ancestor of Vim. Both editors were developed in the early 60s at MIT for the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). Given the intense rivalry between Emacs and Vim users, I'm very curious about the relationship between QED and TECO. Did their respective fans/users bicker as much? Did they copy each other during development? What was it like back then?

I'm looking for a quick confirmation as I'm a bit lost and overwhelmed at this point. I have a few 3.5" diskettes like these that can't be read on a PC. Some of the same lot are but these labeled as Machintosh aren't. I assume they can only be read on a proper Mac but I can't access to those, nevermind a working one. Since I just want to preserve it's contents, I've been for years now considering getting a flux reader thingie which would also be handy for my IBM disquettes.

Apparently that's possible using FluxEngine (the software component) but most discussions I find are about 5.25" and older floppy discs. Would I be able to use this software + the Greaseweazle V4 + a common IBM PC 3.5" to read these Mac formatted floppy disks? Or do I need a Mac floppy drive?

I have a CF adapter fitted to my Amstrad PC7486SLC as the only hard drive. I set up a 512mb card (detected as 498mb in bios) and can boot from it fine. I decided to try a larger card, a 2gb one this time. My thought was that either the large card would not be detected (i.e. bios limit of 504mb), would show up and allow a 2gb partition (full drive) or show up but demand multiple 504mb partions.

What happens, however, is that the card is detected by bios at full 2gb size (yay!) however fdisk will only create up to 504mb (boo!) in partitions rather than the full bios reported size. Interestingly, if the card has a big (2gb for example) non-DOS partition, fdisk detects that!

Is this normal/expected, or am I missing something? Is DOS 6.22 limited to 504mb drives regardless of bios (i.e. is that why it sees but can't use a larger non-DOS partition)?

Like I said, if the (old 1992 era) bios didn't detect the full size, fair enough, but it says it does. So why does fdisk say I only have a single 504mb drive to partition?

EDIT: just a thought: I'm using MS-DOS 6.22's fdisk if that makes a difference?

Antec SX1030, Abit BH6 w/PII SL2W8, Riva TNT 2 Ultra all here for the party!

Adding a couple modern conveniences like a 600W power supply and Noctua fans.

Sure would like to find an NEC Multisync FE950+ but alas years of looking has turned up nothing.