Old computers

[chris r]

I was about to ask if it arrived safe and well. Hopefully it works! 

[EpochNZ]

4 hours ago, chris r said:

I was about to ask if it arrived safe and well. Hopefully it works! 

It does have life, but trouble booting.  Not insurmountable though....will devote some time to it over the next week or so.

Thanks!

[chris r]

Just now, EpochNZ said:

It does have life, but trouble booting.  Not insurmountable though....will devote some time to it over the next week or so.

Thanks!

That's promising! Better than a whole lot of nothing! 

 

/should have got both of them... One as spares 

[chris r]

So my aliexpress order finally arrived and I converted my terminal model m to USB 

Aliexpress teensy and a code I found from someone smarter than me. 

I'll have to read the instructions on key mapping as the num pad isn't mapped correctly but all the letters work correctly 

[Nominal]

Thread dredge

 

Probably @locost_bryan built these. VIntage 9v battery too.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/computers/vintage/listing/4220149746

[Nominal]

Fighting hoarding tendencies by cleaning out some drawers

 

[Nominal]

About time these went into the bin I think.

 

[ul9601]

at least they are not 5¼" or 8"

[igor]

I have some five and a quarter somewhere. No idea what's on them.

[cubastreet]

Who else used to buy single ided 5.25" discs and notch the other side to make them double sided?

[fuel]

On 30/10/2023 at 01:23, Nominal said:

About time these went into the bin I think.

 

Put them up on TradeMe in the vintage section am sure they will find a new home.

[Nominal]

45 minutes ago, fuel said:

Put them up on TradeMe in the vintage section am sure they will find a new home.

There is some crazy asking prices in that section of TM.

[Nominal]

Dug up some old games on 5 1/4 floppys

 

[chris r]

On 22/08/2020 at 10:56, chris r said:

So my aliexpress order finally arrived and I converted my terminal model m to USB 

Aliexpress teensy and a code I found from someone smarter than me. 

I'll have to read the instructions on key mapping as the num pad isn't mapped correctly but all the letters work correctly 

Ended up cheating and getting another usb module (model h board) will update my electronics thread 

 

[~Slideways~]

On 04/11/2023 at 08:31, Nominal said:

Dug up some old games on 5 1/4 floppys

 

So cool, I happen to show my 9 year old KQ3 over the weekend (and Doom, Wolf3d and Commander Keen) all on a 486 66mhz jobby.

I remember first playing KQ6 and was like, holy crap the graphics man!

I still want to finish KQ3 one day. I have save game files from 30 odd years ago. 

[~Slideways~]

The sound of the 5 1/4 drive reading those disks, like a time machine.

[Nominal]

9 minutes ago, ~Slideways~ said:

The sound of the 5 1/4 drive reading those disks, like a time machine.

Still have this old 5 1/4 clunker. Long time since it was powered up though.

 

[Nominal]

Also this Orchid VGA card. IIRC I bought it used from someone on TheCave BBS

Should have kept an old modem, all that beeping and handshaking noise

 

[myk00l]

On 01/11/2023 at 11:31, cubastreet said:

Who else used to buy single ided 5.25" discs and notch the other side to make them double sided?

Did you increase the capacity of a 720kb 3.5" disc by drilling a hole on the opposite side to make it 1.44Mb?

[cubastreet]

Weren't all high density 3.5s double sided?