As Will Rogers would have said, &quot;There is no such things as a free variable.&quot;

Posted: 1 Hour 45 Minutes ago by: Ryan Alswede

Wish someone would build powerleap copies with matching heatsinks...

M-ACPA MIDI Mapping Page created

Posted: 5 Hours 29 Minutes ago by: Louis Ohland

http://ps-2.kev009.com/ohland/M-ACPA_MIDI_Mapping/M-ACPA_MIDI_Mapping.html I am kontused on the mapping of the percussion track. The README suggests all three mappings use a percussion track. General MIDI track maps Track 16 Input to Tra

Re: [OT] the bad news :-)) (thread)

Posted: 7 Hours 39 Minutes ago by: Louis Ohland

What a piker, obviously never heard of T!kT@k. So 90's, this is the Roaring 20s... Stuff out there to make you wanna use bleach on your eyeballs. Used to be cat videos were the only nauseating thing on the interweb... moussa wrote:

[OT] the bad news :-))

Auction: IBM Cyrix 286 to 486 SLC2 50MHZ PLCC CPU 387 I/O DATA

Posted: 16 Hours 31 Minutes ago by: moussa

I got this in my mailbox this morning , it made me LMAO, enjoy :-) " Hi, I am a professional hacker and have successfully managed to hack your operating system. Currently I have gained full access to your account. In addition, I was se

Experimental Pentium Overdrive testing with the UCA [calling Dr Jim!]

Posted: 20 Hours 43 Minutes ago by: Louis Ohland

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235008595757 Enthusiastic. Looks good, though.

Posted: 1 Day 6 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

https://x86.fr/experimental-pentium-overdrive-testing-with-the-uca/ "And it still works! Current consumption rises to ~1.3A to reach 6.4W. I also tried running the Pentium OD at full speed (33.3 MHz FSB for a 83 MHz final clock) but unfo

Posted: 2 Days 20 Hours ago by: Ryan Alswede

I think it may just be a 98SE issue. You can add features to windows under add and remove programs. See if it has it there for media applications.

Re: Auction: 64F3287 92F1586 - IBM - IBM 8590/95 System Board (thread)

Posted: 2 Days 20 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

I installed M-ACPA to my 9577 that runs Win95b. I did it with Peter´s quide in Andent tools. That went well but where I find Microsoft MCI and CD-Audio (Mediaplayer)? And I must dig somewhere my old speakers to listen music. I must chang

Auction: 64F3287 92F1586 - IBM - IBM 8590/95 System Board

Posted: 4 Days 3 Hours ago by: Tomas Slavotinek

Every single PS/2 Model 90 is "downlevel". A downlevel PS/55 Model 5560 to be precise... :P

Re: Right.. Mystery Microchannel PS/2 Interface card (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 6 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

https://www.ebay.com/itm/394263066547 BIN / MAO I know of no downlevel board with problems. Aside from what these planars were pulled for "20 years ago", I dinna ken.

Re: M-ACPA in Windows 98SE took out Plug and Play installer (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 21 Hours ago by: IBMMuseum

Correct on the POS ID - this appears to be the latest 16/17 revision that I have seen (and have). By "layer", you are asking how many sessions (display and printer)? I believe those are at least a four-session adapter.

Posted: 6 Days 1 Hour ago by: Ryan Alswede

Happened to me again after a full reformat so may be Win 98 SE issue?

Posted: 6 Days 1 Hour ago by: Ryan Alswede

Be warned on Windows 98 SE after installing the Windows 3.1 drivers from the ardent tool, the card works great but the processor driver corrupts windows plug and play process after. I've tried twice in my Modal 90 and both times the plug

Re: Right.. Mystery Microchannel PS/2 Interface card (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 2 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

Thank you Stefan for sharing this youtube video! I will watch it and install all drivers for my new M-ACPA.

Posted: 6 Days 17 Hours ago by: schimmi

Card ID 6060 on https://ardent-tool.com/adapters/pics.html guess we have to live with "host adapter" :) any hint if it's 2 or 4 layer? Stefan Louis Ohland schrieb am Dienstag, 23. Mai 2023 um 16:35:52 UTC+2:

Re: Auction: Vintage IBM PS/2 Model 85 Server 9585-0NG 486DX2-66 (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 18 Hours ago by: schimmi

Hi, nice, but please keep that in mind ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkk0YW_qd-Y&t=129s Stefan Pertti Helander schrieb am Samstag, 13. Mai 2023 um 09:53:38 UTC+2:

Re: Auction: Vintage IBM PS/2 Model 85 Server 9585-0NG 486DX2-66 (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 19 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Correct. OP would need a video card. Or a terminal for console... Ryan Alswede wrote:

Auction: IBM 64F0199, 84F9251 ATTACH CARD

Posted: 6 Days 19 Hours ago by: Ryan Alswede

Where would you connect the video cable? There's no VGA jack that I can see in the pictures.

Auction: 64F0198 | IBM PROCESSOR BOARD 486-33 CPU

Posted: 6 Days 23 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

https://www.ebay.com/itm/175430295220 BIN / MAO 17nS for 25 and 33 MHz Type 1 complexi.

Re: Auction: Vintage IBM PS/2 Model 85 Server 9585-0NG 486DX2-66 (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 23 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Non-SOD https://www.ebay.com/itm/175430198308 BIN / MAO Ogdensburg, New Jersey

Re: Auction: Vintage IBM PS/2 Model 85 Server 9585-0NG 486DX2-66 (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 23 Hours ago by: richard smice

There are two versions of the model 85 I have one of each.. they are a little harder to find than a model 95. Kinda like the model 65, they are a little harder to find.... a lot of the parts are the same but completely different moth

Re: Auction: Vintage IBM PS/2 Model 85 Server 9585-0NG 486DX2-66 (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 1 Hour ago by: Louis Ohland

Not exactly. The system board has everything, but I'd like to know it powered up and displayed video. No RAM, no SCSI cables, no HD / slides, needs some bezels. It has an L2 cache module, OP panel, OP panel cable, no floppy -BUT- has th

Re: Right.. Mystery Microchannel PS/2 Interface card (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 3 Hours ago by: Ryan Alswede

Picked cleaner than a road side carcass.

Re: Right.. Mystery Microchannel PS/2 Interface card (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 3 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Thinking without alcohol HURTS. Ryan Alswede wrote:

Re: Right.. Mystery Microchannel PS/2 Interface card (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 3 Hours ago by: Ryan Alswede

Louis, Reading is hard. Using Google is hard. Using a keyboard is hard.

Re: Right.. Mystery Microchannel PS/2 Interface card (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 15 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Badump-pah! Thank you, thank you, I'll be in the area all day... richard smice wrote:

Right.. Mystery Microchannel PS/2 Interface card

Posted: 7 Days 18 Hours ago by: richard smice

I have to say that I have NO "IDEA"

Auction: Vintage IBM PS/2 Model 85 Server 9585-0NG 486DX2-66 parts or

Posted: 7 Days 20 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

https://www.ebay.com/itm/403610014461 Clear as day on left edge. IDEAssociates 5251. The only mystery is who needs a 5250 compatible card?

Re: Auction: REPLY CORP 486 Module NOS --Raleigh, North Carolina (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 20 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Medina, TX https://www.ebay.com/itm/325658674028 Stripped. Looks like most things can be replaced. It may or may not work, you notice the LogicLock on it. There is a chance it might not configure if the tamper detection was enabled. Wis

Re: Auction: REPLY CORP 486 Module NOS --Raleigh, North Carolina (thread)

Posted: 11 Days 12 Hours ago by: IBMMuseum

A year and a half ago, I did a BIN when this CPU card was listed for $145 - the seller then reported that he had lost track of where it was and issued me a refund. It is slightly different from the module in my Reply 32. I told him to conta

Posted: 12 Days 18 Hours ago by: Tomas Slavotinek

Snagged the photos...

Re: Update: SCSI Pages (thread)

Posted: 12 Days 18 Hours ago by: Tomas Slavotinek

There's also a new IBM SCSI Pinouts page: https://ardent-tool.com/IBM_SCSI/Pinouts.html Not quite finished yet but better than nothing...

S36/38 & 5250 Adapters

Re: "Data I/O Buffer" Re: PS/2 Type 3 DMA Arbitrated Parallel Port (thread)

Posted: 12 Days 18 Hours ago by: Tomas Slavotinek

The short S36/38 adapter was previously incorrectly identified as the 5250. This has been corrected now, thanks to John Horvath and David Beem: https://ardent-tool.com/comms/S36-38_Workstation.html#Short We are looking for the actual 52

Posted: 12 Days 19 Hours ago by: Tomas Slavotinek

https://ardent-tool.com/comms/Parallel_DMA.html

Update: SCSI Pages

Re: IBM MCA SCSI Console probulation! (thread)

Posted: 12 Days 19 Hours ago by: Tomas Slavotinek

https://ardent-tool.com/IBM_SCSI/Narrow_IBM_SCSI.html Tribble & Spock pages received new outlines, block diagrams, and a bunch of other additions and corrections: https://ardent-tool.com/IBM_SCSI/SCSI-A.html https://ardent-tool.com/IBM_S

Posted: 12 Days 19 Hours ago by: Tomas Slavotinek

https://ardent-tool.com/IBM_SCSI/Serial_Console.html Success with Tribble, no luck with the other adapters yet...

Dos Command Strings String.doc

Auction: IBM 486SLC2 CPU processor upgrade for PS/2 Model 56 and 57

Posted: 13 Days 21 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Re: Auction: REPLY CORP 486 Module NOS --Raleigh, North Carolina (thread)

Posted: 14 Days 14 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

https://www.ebay.com/itm/166001145500 BIN / MAO Cairnlea, VIC, Australia

Auction: REPLY CORP 486 Module NOS --Raleigh, North Carolina [Reply

Posted: 15 Days 4 Hours ago by: richard smice

I wonder if this was originally designed to run a 486 SX cpu like some the early model 90's

Posted: 15 Days 6 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185603390682 BIN / MAO Missing 486DX2-66 [oh, the humanity!] Other empty socket is for Weitek 4167 [unobtanium -AND- you'll never need it] Missing heatsink, but IMHO, it isn't needed. https://www.ardent-tool.c

Re: Connecting your 5.25" floppy (thread)

Posted: 15 Days 22 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

FWIW, P2-2 is for a floppy tape backup OR for a 5.25" floppy. So, did I err in tape -AND- 5.25" ? The pinout shows 5v to the last connector. Tomas Slavotinek wrote:

Re: Slottype in Dnnnn.ADFs (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 3 Hours ago by: Tomas Slavotinek

It's important to note that these numbers refer to the *address bus*. 16-bit MCA slot - 16-bit data, 24-bit address 32-bit MCA slot - 32-bit data, 32-bit address

Re: Connecting your 5.25" floppy (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 3 Hours ago by: Tomas Slavotinek

https://ardent-tool.com/floppy/Pinouts.html#40p_Planar_MS https://ardent-tool.com/floppy/Pinouts.html#44p_Planar_MS

Slottype in Dnnnn.ADFs

Posted: 16 Days 3 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Slottype[n] = 32 0 0 Slottype[n] where n is slot number [duh] Slot width of 24 or 32. 24 can be used on a 16-bit system, -or- it can be a 24-bit device on a 32-bit system [example, DBA-ESDI on Model 90] First single digit, 0 - normal MC

Connecting your 5.25" floppy

Re: Hidden Built-In Functions are Easter Egg in SC.EXE ? (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 4 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

https://www.ardent-tool.com/85_95/Common.html#Installing_Floppy Note: For bay A, use the middle connector (labeled "P2-1"). For bay B, use the bottom connector (labeled "P2-0"). FWIW, P2-2 is for a floppy tape backup OR for a 5.25" flopp

Re: Location of Diskette Types under Built-In Features (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 4 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

I czeched, SC.EXE is on the refdisk. Louis Ohland wrote:

Hidden Built-In Functions are Easter Egg in SC.EXE ?

Posted: 16 Days 6 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

4 - 1.44MB 3.5" 6 - 2.88MB 3.5" Undefined" Not Installed 7 - Tape Drive(s) 1 - 360KB 5.25" 2 - 1.2MB 5.25" 3 - 720KB 3.5" What is #5? Seems like we need to ask "Who is number 1"? And we get the answer "You are number 2" I lived alone, my

Location of Diskette Types under Built-In Features

Posted: 16 Days 7 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Late Saturday evening, I blundered into a thought. For those of us frantically trying to unwrap the mysteries of planar ADFs, there are functions NOT contained in the Pnnnn, Dnnnn, and Snnnn ADFs, yet when you run System Programs, shucks

Posted: 16 Days 14 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

It appears that the Diskette Types are stored in SC.EXE and auto-populate the Diskette Types under Built-In Features. Not in any planar Pnnnn, Dnnnn, or Snnnn ADF file I looked at. Weather this is the correct order, or if they follow the

Different memories T1 vs T0

Posted: 17 Days 5 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

While prepping the SSSP "Built-In Features, I noticed a difference between the Model 90 and the "T0" complexi, and the 8595-H complexi. The 95-H shows Useable Memory = Installed minus any ROM shadowing [minus defective or misconfigure

Digital Vikings looking for plunder

Posted: 17 Days 5 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Carsten is splashing ashore on "Parallel Island", looking for DMA Arbitrated riches. The Type 3 Parallel Port has been underutilized IMHO for decades. In order to fully abuse something, we must understand it...

EtherWORKS MC model list (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 6 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

DEC (DE210) EtherWORKS MC DEC (DE211) EtherWORKS MC/TP DEC (DE212) EtherWORKS MC/TP_BNC Alexandros wrote:

Re: T00l P0rn! (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 6 Hours ago by: Alexandros

Clearly Win95 support https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_KB_Archive/126033

Re: T00l P0rn! (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 9 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

I uninstalled Win 95 from my 9577 and installed Dos 6.22 and Win 3.11 again.. I will try to set up those drivers from EtherWorks 2 diskette I made after Louis´ hint. Lets see how this works for my Digital Ethernet Adapter A09-DE212. Beca

Posted: 17 Days 9 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

That is a shame. Lucky I didn´t order it. I ordered and paid a M-ACPA sound adapter from Germany on Ebay. When it comes I will install it to my 9577. Lets see how it works.

Re: Hard drive to my IBM 8555 -061 SX55-16 (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 14 Hours ago by: Ryan Alswede

Ended up returning the Resound New Wave MCA card. The rear brackets are made wrong and break. SO much promise but so disappointing. Games I tried in Dos 6.22 Raptor Call of the Shadows (tried multiple combinations of sound blaster s

Re: Hard drive to my IBM 8555 -061 SX55-16 (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 20 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

Yes I can do so. I have a SCSI 2 adapter from my 8595 and some SCSI HDDs. If I can use this adapter in my 8555 it is best I can do now. Or buy a McIDE adapter from Mark Malley!

Re: Hard drive to my IBM 8555 -061 SX55-16 (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 22 Hours ago by: gfretwell

I think the chances of finding a working F2DBA drive are so slim, you would be better off plugging in a SCSI card and using a SCSI drive.

Hard drive to my IBM 8555 -061 SX55-16

Posted: 19 Days 5 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

DBA-ESDI, same as 8570, 8573-P75, very early Model 8590-T04 Pertti Helander wrote:

Re: Uninstalling OS/2 Warp 3 from my 9577 (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 8 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

I got a SX55 but it hasn´t any hard disk yet. It has an integrated HD connector with flat cable that comes from a riser card and other end to a HDD. What kind of HDD can be connected to it? I have this: 30 MB IBM ESDI HARD DISK IBM P/N 38F

Re: Uninstalling OS/2 Warp 3 from my 9577 (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 19 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

I made a radical solution and with fdisk deleted my only partition. Then I make it again and formatted it. Then I installed MSDOS 6.22 and Win3.11 fwg. I got rid of OS/2 and Win95. I will never install OS/2 again because it hasn´t an eas

Re: Uninstalling OS/2 Warp 3 from my 9577 (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 20 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

Re: Uninstalling OS/2 Warp 3 from my 9577 (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 21 Hours ago by: schimmi

Hi Pertti, so your primary partition is still FAT. Good. The correct command should be "fdisk /mbr". My mistake :) Remember, OS/2 replaced your autoexec.bat and config.sys files under C:/ - maybe there are Backups (*.bak) of these files, y

Re: Uninstalling OS/2 Warp 3 from my 9577 (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 3 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

I booted from Win95 start disk and run command fdisk /fixmbr but it didn´t recognised this /fixmbr. Checked with fdisk that my C: dvive is active and bootable. I have in my 9577 two 212MB HDs and all files are in first drive C and drive

Re: Uninstalling OS/2 Warp 3 from my 9577 (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 10 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

I didn´t installed HPFS filesystem and formatted HD but installed OS/2 on the existing FAT partion that has Win 95. I can´t access my WIn 95 files from OS/2. Only I can access from OS/2 to DOS-promt. I had started to work with my new 957

Uninstalling OS/2 Warp 3 from my 9577

Posted: 20 Days 17 Hours ago by: schimmi

Hi Pertti, hard to tell, what gone wrong here. Basically, you can't easily uninstall an Operating System like an Application. OS/2 Warrp came with a Boot Manager and the [optional] HPFS-Filesystem - did you installed that / formatted you

Posted: 20 Days 18 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

Is here some OS/2 users who can help me? I installed OS/2 Warp 3 to my 9577 with Win 95 in it. Now I can´t access to my Win 95 so I want to uninstall OS/2 Warp but don´t know how to do it. On the manual I have there is nothing for uninst

Re: Danish 28 year old MILF (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 21 Hours ago by: schimmi

Milk beer?

Posted: 21 Days 5 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Sounds like a world winner... Using normal beer with cereal, blech. -BUT- a milk with alcoholic content? Little Timmy just DEMOLISHES his Fruit Loops every morning and licks the bowl clean...

Re: Danish 28 year old MILF (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 5 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Do PS/2s dream of electric sheep? schimmi wrote:

Re: Danish 28 year old MILF (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 20 Hours ago by: schimmi

Come on, clickbait-Louis, PS/2s are just thinking metal :] Louis Ohland schrieb am Freitag, 5. Mai 2023 um 12:51:56 UTC+2:

Re: T00l P0rn! (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 2 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

There is a picture in Ardent Tools and I have this: Digital Ethernet Adapter "DE212", Adapter ID 628D, FCC ID AO9-DE212. I made this EtherWorks Distribution Diskette v.2.01 and there is says that its 32 bit Win95 drived has no support for

Posted: 22 Days 20 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

CPU Upgrade Modules https://www.ardent-tool.com/CPU/upgrade_modules.html After wallowing about in the 386SX class CPU upgrades, I see no IBM CPU upgrades with external L2 cache. It's all internal. Kingston did make a CPU upgrade with sma

T00l P0rn! (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 21 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Uh, how about an image of the card? Since you are kontuzed how W95 identifies it. Perhaps it self-identifies as a DS210? Pertti Helander wrote:

Re: Forlorn hope (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 22 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

Thank you Louis! I will make disks and try these. I think my adapter is DE 212 but Win95 tells that it is DE210?

Re: Forlorn hope (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 22 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

Posted: 22 Days 22 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5276864A/en Note that IBM says "certain", not "all" I would hazard a guess that the NPU socket should be probulated. Continuing to scan... FIG. 5 is a schematic representation of the states of certain

Posted: 22 Days 22 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5485585A/en In a preferred form of the present invention, advantage is taken of the packaging of a numeric co-processor such as the math co-processor 39 in a plastic leaded chip carrier. It has become

Forlorn hope (thread)

Re: Needed options disk for Digital Ethernet MCA Adapter (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 22 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

https://web.archive.org/web/19980203120208/http://www.networks.digital.com/dr/nics/drivers/ EtherWORKS 2 (DE100, DE200, DE201, DE202, DE210, DE212, DE422) e2kit201.zip EtherWORKS 2 DOS-based Distribution Diskette V2.01 https://web.archive

Posted: 22 Days 22 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

How did you copy the ADF? The correct weg is to use "Copy an Options Diskette" from the main system programs menu. The title is a bit misleading, it searches a floppy for ANY ADF, DGS, Innn, Cnnn that it does not have [or newer copies],

Re: Needed options disk for Digital Ethernet MCA Adapter (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 23 Hours ago by: IBMMuseum

Interesting for the 486SLC3-75 planar where a CPU daughtercard makes no sense. Does it specifically mention an L2 cache, or do you see cache control lines (since all of the CPU daughtercards have processors with L1 cache)? It might be inte

Posted: 22 Days 23 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

I have seen and read this and copied @628D.ADF to my 9577 reference disk. I don´t have an install disk with software that was included in it as new. I can´t make access to my router from 9577 with LAN cable and RJ45. I use Win95 in my 95

Re: Needed options disk for Digital Ethernet MCA Adapter (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 1 Hour ago by: Ryan Alswede

Windows 98 seems to be OK.

Needed options disk for Digital Ethernet MCA Adapter

Posted: 23 Days 2 Hours ago by: Alexandros

Maybe this might help https://www.ardent-tool.com/NIC/DEC_EtherWorks.html

Posted: 23 Days 2 Hours ago by: Pertti Helander

I´ve got a Digital Ethernet MCA Adapter (DE212). I installed it to my 9577 and looked for options disk for it but in Ardent Tools there wasn´t it. I have also Peter´s CD but there wasn´t it eiher. So if somebody here has a copy of it pl

Micro Networks MN5130 datasheet (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 4 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

http://www.bitsavers.org/components/microNetworks/_dataBooks/1992_Micro_Networks_Data_Conversion_Products.pdf pages 251-258 physical Louis Ohland wrote:

MN5130 specs

Re: Model 50 with Scsi and Kingston ram expansion card. (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 4 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

https://web.archive.org/web/19981202021355/http://www.micronetworks.com/convert.html#A/Ds Analog to Digital Converters Resolution: 8 bits Model: MN5130 Conversion time: 2.5usec Internal clock: No Max Linearity error +/-0 .2

Re: Model 50 with Scsi and Kingston ram expansion card. (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 6 Hours ago by: Carsten Lyng

I have used the Trantor controller, and the machine is now working with that one and the Kingston memory expansion adapter - :-) I downloaded the dos drivers for the T228 on the tool page, made boot floppy with the ASPI driver, and form

Posted: 24 Days 23 Hours ago by: Carsten Lyng

I have put some photo´s on the google drive.: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EqBKGfMX7cnccuYXgFP_O_mDXXqJIoKL?usp=sharing

Model 50 with Scsi and Kingston ram expansion card.

Posted: 24 Days 23 Hours ago by: Ryan Alswede

Purchased one of the MCA Sound Blaster knock offs from flee-Bay for fun. Every time it plays a sound in windows NT it goes pop at the end. Anybody else had that problem?

Posted: 24 Days 23 Hours ago by: Carsten Lyng

I was taking the model 50, I got when i picked up my model 95 for a spin..... I wanted to install more ram in it, so I found a Kingston KTM-609/16 Plus II that I had for some time..... Installed a KTM-2000/M70 module in socket P1. Fired

Gender blender 9556 ASC

Body of a sixteen with the memories of a 36

Posted: 25 Days 2 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Wallowing through some IBM patents. The 56 Copro socket has extra lines pulled to it. It can support a math copro [surprise!], an Alternate System Controller [CPU upgrade], -OR- L2 cache. So, how would the L2 work on the copro socket? It

Posted: 25 Days 3 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

So... how is / can be interlaced memory implemented on a 16-bit system? Say we have a 9556, a 32 bit CPU with a 16-bit bus. But... it uses the same SIMMs as the Blessed 90/95. Odd number of SIMMs.

Danish 28 year old MILF

Posted: 25 Days 6 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

I remember the innocent days of the late '90s. Before AI search algorithms and T1kT@k... Squalling modems... AOHell. Genie... Bear with me. I intend to misbehave. Machines I'd Like to Fondle... Carsten has some challenges and opportunit

Posted: 26 Days 16 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

I have pondered... I wonder how/if we could use SCSI2SD as the W98SE temp drive... somehow, I >think< it has to be set as a "fixed" or non-removeable drive. Maybe I am wrong about the SD performance, can it keep up with the writes need

Posted: 26 Days 23 Hours ago by: Carsten Lyng

Thanks for the info - I will download the drivers in the weekend, and then I will try to install win98SE - hope it works. I will put he Win98se install files and the drivers on another Scsi hdd - then run the installation from that one

Posted: 27 Days 20 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Win98SE would be a decent choice as well. W95 or W98 https://www.ardent-tool.com/utils/#Win_Utils Windows Utilities, Drivers, Updates & Fixes XGA208.ZIP (Info) XGA208 Driver for Windows 95/98 XGA206.ZIP (Info) XGA206 Driver for Windows

Posted: 27 Days 20 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

You are correct, the 1.2MB drive uses the clone pinout with a separate 4 pin power connector, not the PS/2 power / signal cable. Carsten Lyng wrote:

Re: Using Jaz Traveller with non-Iomega drives (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 21 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Maybe... My guess is the MCIDE will boot first. Perhaps with the enhanced complex BIOS and "Search IML" you might be able to bypass the old complex BIOS need for ID6 on Slot 1 Carsten Lyng wrote:

Posted: 28 Days 14 Hours ago by: moussa

3rd time the charm You are better of with CF media/devices, the common ASIC used has a poor transfer rate in those SD adaptors coming from the east. something I wish we can do too: https://github.com/dschmenk/apple2pi https://www.youtub

I'm a tool, but no fool... (thread)

Posted: 28 Days 16 Hours ago by: Louis Ohland

Without looking at the page, lemmee guess, AutoCAD and some rendering programs? We can't use it as a supported video card under Windows to do non-CAD things? Jiri, Jiri, what has become of you? richard smice wrote:

Re: Yes, but... Re: look (thread)

Posted: 28 Days 18 Hours ago by: richard smice

Lorenzo got everything working with all systems go back then.. on the tool...

Posted: 28 Days 22 Hours ago by: Carsten Lyng

Yep, it is getting huge.... Thanks for te link to the Harddrive / Floopy rails @Ctsales on Ebay. I have found 4 pieces in one of my boxes - I have used a set for the cdrom drive and the 1.2mb Floppy drive. the 1.2mb floppy drive is not

Yes, but... Re: look (thread)

Posted: 29 Days ago by: Louis Ohland

According to legend, they cobbled together an OS/2 driver for it. " In the process of testing the product, it was discovered that an IBM PS/2 model 70 personal computer running OS/2 could be used to run diagnostics and test programs o

Re: look (thread)

Posted: 29 Days 2 Hours ago by: Kevin Bowling

I can't tell if any of the SIMMs are double sided but I think each board is 32MB based on the IC markings for a total of 64MB. This one has the GT4xi, an IBM design (based on all those TI DSPs) only used on AIX. The IrisVision is an

Re: look (thread)

Posted: 29 Days 5 Hours ago by: richard smice

It appears to have a very hard to find. Iris Vision video card.it is a two and a half slot card. these worked very well under cad programs back then and there were lots of drivers for them as well. Lorenzo has done a lot with them in ea

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