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Topic: Seagate 4096 Hard Disk, any good? |
Howard81
Replies: 4
Views: 10782
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Forum: IBM PC/XT & AT Webforum
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:23 am Subject: Seagate 4096 Hard Disk, any good? |
I would be interested in your 10MB drive! But I am wondering if it can survive shipping to UK  |
Topic: what is difference between 5160 and XT 286 |
Howard81
Replies: 6
Views: 13962
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Forum: IBM PC/XT & AT Webforum
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:24 pm Subject: what is difference between 5160 and XT 286 |
Would you like to swap your 5162 for my 5160?  |
Topic: My first IBM PC 5150 on the way! |
Howard81
Replies: 15
Views: 30324
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Forum: IBM PC/XT & AT Webforum
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:51 am Subject: My first IBM PC 5150 on the way! |
You could always find a VGA card to connect to a modern monitor until you find an original IBM one
Don't forget that if you change graphics cards, you also need to re-set the DIP switches on the ... |
Topic: Seagate ST-251 will trade for data recovery |
Howard81
Replies: 7
Views: 61138
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Forum: Buy - Sell - Trade
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:50 am Subject: Seagate ST-251 will trade for data recovery |
Not if the HDD was taken from an XT class machine... |
Topic: Wanted: 8MHz IBM AT motherboard |
Howard81
Replies: 1
Views: 36455
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Forum: Buy - Sell - Trade
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:18 pm Subject: Wanted: 8MHz IBM AT motherboard |
I am looking for the second type of IBM 5170 AT motherboard, with the 8MHz 286. Does anyone have one?
Thanks in advance  |
Topic: Wanted: MFM/RLL controller cards |
Howard81
Replies: 4
Views: 51337
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Forum: Buy - Sell - Trade
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:38 am Subject: Wanted: MFM/RLL controller cards |
I am looking for a couple of MFM/RLL controller cards, one for an RLL drive, the other for MFM. Something along the lines of a Western Digital WD1002 or WD1004 would be perfect! Anyone have anything s ... |
Topic: Wanted: Wanted: 1.2MB floppy drive for IBM AT |
Howard81
Replies: 0
Views: 40926
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Forum: Buy - Sell - Trade
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:45 am Subject: Wanted: Wanted: 1.2MB floppy drive for IBM AT |
As the title! In the past, a previous owner of my AT replaced the 1.2MB drive with a 3.5" one, but left the original (optional) IBM 360kB drive in place. I have replaced it with a later 1.2MB 5.2 ... |
Topic: online with wfwg 3.11 broadband |
Howard81
Replies: 12
Views: 19793
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Forum: IBM PC/XT & AT Webforum
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:50 pm Subject: online with wfwg 3.11 broadband |
I have my 486DX4-100 online with Windows 3.11, 16MB of RAM and IE 5.
You can easily find the Microsoft TCP/IP and set it up with the required data for a network. My network card is a 3Com 3C509 Co ... |
Topic: Wanted: 286 Turbo board for XT |
Howard81
Replies: 0
Views: 39837
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Forum: Buy - Sell - Trade
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:20 pm Subject: Wanted: 286 Turbo board for XT |
My old XT had an Orchid Tiny Turbo 286 board fitted in it, but it unfortunately does not work (lots of smoke..).
I am looking for a replacement, if you have one please tell me! Any 286 board would ... |
Topic: Vista |
Howard81
Replies: 17
Views: 29645
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Forum: Off-Topic Discussions
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:17 pm Subject: Vista |
$400? Here I can get Vista Home Premium for $120, which is the same price I can get XP for
That is also taking into consideration the $ to £ exchange rate. |
Topic: 386 can't boot up DOS |
Howard81
Replies: 23
Views: 34526
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Forum: IBM PC/XT & AT Webforum
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:16 pm Subject: 386 can't boot up DOS |
Try shorting the two connections on the battery, it worked for me  |
Topic: Quadram Quadboard clock driver |
Howard81
Replies: 0
Views: 6994
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Forum: IBM PC/XT & AT Webforum
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:50 pm Subject: Quadram Quadboard clock driver |
I just bought a Quadram Quadboard III for my 5150, so I can add the benefits of an RTC to it
However, it doesn't come with a driver disk, the clock driver is quadclok.sys (or quadclok.com). Does a ... |
Topic: Genuine IBM 1989 |
Howard81
Replies: 7
Views: 14307
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Forum: Off-Topic Discussions
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:30 pm Subject: Genuine IBM 1989 |
The Model G keyboard (Model M with no LED's) on my XT had a similar layout (British). Although the key cap with | and \ seems to have escaped this photo!
http://www.howard81.co.uk/upload/vcf/xt/ne ... |
Topic: Mach 3 : I wonder what this would work on... |
Howard81
Replies: 3
Views: 10804
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Forum: IBM PC/XT & AT Webforum
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:53 pm Subject: Mach 3 : I wonder what this would work on... |
I would like to try that! I have 4.77MHz IBM XT and 5150, also 8MHz Amstrad PC1640 (8086 XT clone). I am sure it would work on one of those  |
Topic: end of the old pc's |
Howard81
Replies: 8
Views: 36288
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Forum: IBM PC/XT & AT Webforum
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:05 pm Subject: end of the old pc's |
Why?
Put them on eBay, or other site, then hopefully they could go to a good home  |
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