Re: Substituting DSHD for DSDD disks (or DS2D if you prefer)

2016-01-30 Thread Curious Marc
On Jan 26, 2016, at 10:07 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: >>> 82901A and the HP 9121D now work great. Quite low capacity (270k?) due to >>> the weird LIF formatting, formats 35 tracks but uses only 33, out of the >>> 40. I wonder why. >> Partially because the original 5.25" drives (Shugart SA400) were 35

Re: Any hope for CBM VIC-1525 Printers & ribbons?

2016-01-30 Thread drlegendre .
Oops, I forgot to mention.. it needs to be unexpectedly, to the point of absurdly cheap! ;-) Really though, these printers are mostly of "historic" interest, and not much more - the mechanism is slow and noisy, with print quality somewhere between 'poor' and 'acceptable'. I suspect that most owner

Re: Any hope for CBM VIC-1525 Printers & ribbons?

2016-01-30 Thread Curious Marc
I have used ribbonsunlimited.com recently to remake a lot of my HP2631 very odd ribbons. Wasn't cheap but sure worked perfectly. la...@ribbonsunlimited.com Marc Sent from my iPad > On Jan 30, 2016, at 5:24 PM, drlegendre . wrote: > > Has anyone found a source for replacement ribbons, or even r

Any hope for CBM VIC-1525 Printers & ribbons?

2016-01-30 Thread drlegendre .
Has anyone found a source for replacement ribbons, or even re-inking supplies, for the Commodore VIC-1525 printer? This printer was manufactured in Japan by Seikosha for CBM, and was also sold in the USA by Radio Shack, re-badged under the Tandy / TRS-80 brand. For reference - The VIC-1525 employ

Re: Win98SE Update/Patches WAS: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016, steve shumaker wrote: > >And linkage to the thread: > > > >https://www.techtalk.cc/viewtopic.php?t=65 > > > >-Ali > > > > > > > thanks! I've planning to rebuild a w98 box but haven't got to it yet. > This will help! I wish you guys hadn't started this. A few months ago I w

Re: Win98SE Update/Patches WAS: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread steve shumaker
On 1/30/2016 3:52 PM, Ali wrote: Ali, Do you have a link to the one you use? Steve Shumaker Steve, Forgot to add directions: Prerequisites: Minimum 64 MB of RAM for Main Updates. 300 MB free hard disk space for (ALL) options. Installation Guide: [1] Install Windows 98 Second Edition (wit

Re: PDP-11/03, LSI-11 KEV11-C CIS option

2016-01-30 Thread Eric Smith
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Henk Gooijen wrote: > are yo looking for the 11/03 CPU board, or is the > CIS "QIL" chip enough? QIL=Quad In Line , I made that up > as the CIS chip I am thinking of si 40 "double" DIL. > ISTR I have that CIS chip in a anti-static box. Just looking for the CIS c

RE: Win98SE Update/Patches WAS: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread Ali
> I haven't checked, but does a similar animal exist for WinME? Or is ME > the pariah of the 9x family? Chuck, I don't know. I skipped WinME when it was released and jumped directly to Win2K. Frankly have not had any desire to go back. There are a number of patches out there that will, suppose

RE: Win98SE Update/Patches WAS: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread Ali
> Ali, > > Do you have a link to the one you use? > > > Steve Shumaker Steve, Forgot to add directions: Prerequisites: Minimum 64 MB of RAM for Main Updates. 300 MB free hard disk space for (ALL) options. Installation Guide: [1] Install Windows 98 Second Edition (with or without 98lite).*

Re: Win98SE Update/Patches WAS: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 01/30/2016 03:11 PM, Ali wrote: That is the same as Unofficial SP2 3.52 (the version you linked to is a bit older). It seems to contain a number if not most of the fixes. The thing I don't like about it is the fact it is not very automated. I.E. there are a bunch of gotchas you have to pay at

RE: Win98SE Update/Patches WAS: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread Ali
> Ali, > > Do you have a link to the one you use? > > > Steve Shumaker Steve, Here is the link: http://www.techtalk.cc/download/U98SESP3.EXE. It is now at 3.53 apparently as of last week. I have installed this one on my Win98SE VM but plan on going back to Auto-Patcher. I may lose one or two

Re: Win98SE Update/Patches WAS: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread steve shumaker
On 1/30/2016 3:11 PM, Ali wrote: I've used this one lately: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/unofficial_windows98_se_service _pack.html Seems to be pretty good. Chuck, That is the same as Unofficial SP2 3.52 (the version you linked to is a bit older). It seems to contain a number if

RE: Win98SE Update/Patches WAS: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread Ali
> I've used this one lately: > > http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/unofficial_windows98_se_service > _pack.html > > Seems to be pretty good. > Chuck, That is the same as Unofficial SP2 3.52 (the version you linked to is a bit older). It seems to contain a number if not most of the fixes

Re: Big-Board II & Micro Cornucopia User Group Disks?

2016-01-30 Thread Phil Budne
I purchased a BBII kit in the 80's (to try and build a programmable terminal), but never got the board working. I have the contents of the 8" floppy that came with it archived at: ftp://ftp.ultimate.com/misc/bb2.zip Archive: bb2.zip Length Date TimeName --

Re: Win98SE Update/Patches WAS: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 01/30/2016 11:59 AM, Ali wrote: While on this topic what are you guys using to patch up your new/reinstalls of Win98SE? For Win2K there is Unofficial SP5.2 and WinXP has Unofficial SP4. I have found a number of unofficial SPs for Win98SE, namely AutoPatcher 2007 w/ the 2008 Update and SP2 v3.5

Re: Big-Board II & Micro Cornucopia User Group Disks?

2016-01-30 Thread Mike Loewen
On Sat, 30 Jan 2016, Jim Simpson wrote: I'm a retired software engineer. My first home computer was a Z80 CP/M system built on the Big-Board II back in the mid '80s. I bought a bare board kit and went from there. It took me several months to collect all the parts before I had a running system.

Re: PDP-11/03, LSI-11 KEV11-C CIS option

2016-01-30 Thread Henk Gooijen
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- From: Eric Smith Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 9:29 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: PDP-11/03, LSI-11 KEV11-C CIS option Does anyone have a PDP-11/03 or LSI-11 with the KEV11-C CIS (Commercial Instruction Set) option? It ma

Re: PDP-11/03, LSI-11 KEV11-C CIS option

2016-01-30 Thread Paul Anderson
I know one person who has one. I think I had a few at one time, but it's been years since I've seen them. On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > Does anyone have a PDP-11/03 or LSI-11 with the KEV11-C CIS > (Commercial Instruction Set) option? It may have also been known as > DIS

PDP-11/03, LSI-11 KEV11-C CIS option

2016-01-30 Thread Eric Smith
Does anyone have a PDP-11/03 or LSI-11 with the KEV11-C CIS (Commercial Instruction Set) option? It may have also been known as DIS (Dibol Instruction Set). It apparently consists of two microcode ROM chips (MICROMs), 23-004B5 and 23-005B5. Last month I posted here about building a circuit to dum

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread Curious Marc
I am 0 for 3 in having IE 6.0 work on my Win98 machines. Just can't connect to the internet anymore when I do this. Connectivity returns when I downgrade to 5.5. But others do report having success with 6.0 on Win98, so I'm not sure what's wrong with me... I'll try Opera, thanks for the tip. Mar

Win98SE Update/Patches WAS: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread Ali
While on this topic what are you guys using to patch up your new/reinstalls of Win98SE? For Win2K there is Unofficial SP5.2 and WinXP has Unofficial SP4. I have found a number of unofficial SPs for Win98SE, namely AutoPatcher 2007 w/ the 2008 Update and SP2 v3.52, but I am not sure which is the

Re: Big-Board II & Micro Cornucopia User Group Disks?

2016-01-30 Thread Eric Smith
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Jim Simpson wrote: > I'm also trying to recover all of the Micro Cornucopia UG diskette data. [...] > I'm looking for any BB-II stuff or Micro-C user group disk stuff. I recently was given a Xerox 820 board (based on the Big Board design), and a CD titled "Sourdou

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread Chuck Guzis
I managed to soak up extra memory when installing 98SE by using Japheth's HIMEMX driver, coupled with XMSDISK: In AUTOEXEC.BAT: SET TEMPDRIVE=S SET TEMPSIZE=768000 C:\XMS\XMSDISK\XMSDSK %TEMPDRIVE%: %TEMPSIZE% /y /t Gives you a 768MB RAMdrive as drive letter S: The drive is loaded in the *to

Re: What to Do with a PS/2?

2016-01-30 Thread Liam Proven
On 30 January 2016 at 06:18, Robert Ferguson wrote: > This is exactly correct, although marketing had nothing to do with the “NT” > retcon; we did it ourselves. > > - Rob > > ps: the i860 was not a pleasant thing. There was much rejoicing in the halls > the day we decided to drop it as a target

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016, m...@markesystems.com wrote: > From: "j...@cimmeri.com" > >The one thing I'm not seeing mentioned > >in re VirtualBox is that what if you > >have a legacy Win 98SE system with > >hardware in it, like a GPIB card or > >sound card? Or if you have software > >that talks to har

Re: IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal - need fuse holder

2016-01-30 Thread Ken Seefried
Wow...that fired some old brain cells. I saved one of these around 86-87 and had it hooked to a VAX/BSD4 system for a while. All I really remember about it was that it was pretty well made but after wasting too much time mucking about I could never finesse a termcap entry for it that didn't have

Big-Board II & Micro Cornucopia User Group Disks?

2016-01-30 Thread Jim Simpson
I'm a retired software engineer. My first home computer was a Z80 CP/M system built on the Big-Board II back in the mid '80s. I bought a bare board kit and went from there. It took me several months to collect all the parts before I had a running system. After discovering some very old M80 asse

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: CuriousMarc > I could run Explorer 5.5, but never 6.0. ?? 6.0 runs fine on all my 98SE machines. If you need to get to a later Web site (many don't work with older IE's now), there is a version of Opera (9.80, Version/10.63) which works under 98SE and makes most sites accessible.

RE: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread CuriousMarc
I managed to run Win98 SE (the Second Edition is important!) on a Core Duo E6700 2.6 GHz with SATA. But it was a very hard job to get it going. The motherboard still had a legacy PCI slot on it which was helpful. Here is the procedure I had to go through. You'll need a Win95 or 98 "DOS" boot disc p

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-30 Thread mark
From: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) > Win-98 SE ... it would have been nice if it recognized USB storage > devices natively. There is that package you can add (my copy is in a self-extracting archive, called "nusb23e.exe") that recognizes USB drives, etc. I run a number of USB