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By now everybody should have noticed that the IBM PCs section has been split into two areas. There were a lot of 386 and 486 questions showing up,...
Do Kingston memory cards have technology that prevents them from being used on unintended computers? I'm trying to use a Toshiba 4400SX 16 MB card...
I have been searching the web for about 15 years if such a creature exisited! It did at on time, only by serendiputy recently did I stumble across...
Hello All, So I finally got my hands on a CompatiCard IV (w/ BIOS and dip switches). It should arrive in a few days. I did have a few questions...
i know they make pretty decent servers and are good for playing older games. i was just wondering what other People use there "later PC's" for?
Hey guys, I just found a Compaq Deskpro 386/20 today. It seems to be in REALLY good shape. Very little yellowing on the computer, and the monitor...
At one point in the past I put my XT-IDE into a 486 and was chastised for not using a 16-bit IDE controller. The reasoning behind this was twofold -...
I'm curious as to how many others have them and what do you use them for? As mentioned in my introduction I've got a CDS 524. Just dug it out of the...
Hello I think this is where I should post this but I am not sure, so if it is in the wrong place please accept my apologies. OK so I just got a...
Just won an auction for one of these. The 486sx25 by the looks though wont know for sure till I have it in my hot little hands. Located the Bios...
i've been wanting to get a sound card for my PS/2 8580, but i don't know if they ever made any kind of sound card for the MCA bus. was anything ever...
It appears the previous user of my newly aquired PS/1 computer password protected it. Not the bios but after dos begins.... a program runs. I...
Hello Everyone. Lately, I've been having an interest in my old DOS days. I miss a lot of the software and the games that I used to play. Tonight I...
I have a few FPU questions. First, after reading a post here, I know that a FPU that's clocked higher will work in a system with a slower CPU,...
I have a 486 VL Motherboard (3 VLB, 2 8 bit ISA, 3 16bit ISA), Opti 495XLC Chipset. The BIOS string and some googleing turned up this:...
I'm trying to take the bottom cover off, and I have all of the screws out, but now it's sticking around the trackball. How is it put together? I...
i've been having this problem with my 486 DX2/66 while quite some time now. i can't seem to communicate with any expansion cards that require shared...
Just curious as to your experiances. Have used v3 and V4 in the past. It's interesting that it is still alive in the form of eComstation ,which after...
Hi fellow enthusiasts, I managed to win a Diamond Speedstar Pro video card on ebay. The TULARC website (I wonder if that was set up by an amateur...
So I'm building this 386 system, and I've gotten most of the parts together. The only thing is that currently I'm using an old ATX case I had lying...
I have recently acquired a 486 motherboard from my local surplus chain. The man I bought it from told me it was originally the guts of an old arcade...
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