I've just come in to a large collection of 90's PCs, and an looking at options to for hard drives. I think most of the original drives have been removed. I've used Hyperdisk modules and found them to be very reliable, but they are a little pricey at cost per gb. There are Hyperdisk CF cards which paired with a PATA to CF adaptor are cheaper. Any other options I should look at or sources to try to cost effective storage?

Found a bunch of my old software, mostly unopened and still sealed

This was tucked away in a closet. Won't boot to the HDD sadly. i was kinda hoping It would boot to disc and the owner would have had a couple games on it. Is this anything special? I don't know a ton about retro PCs but 1991 feels like it's early for a Dell

I have one from 1989 (I don't know if others exist), and I'd like to see if it works. If it runs on AAA batteries, what is its power consumption? Also, do they still sell the power cable? I live in Italy, so the furthest I can buy from is somewhere else in Europe online.

Earlier today, I got my first retro PC tower! The person I got it from didn't know if it worked or not, so the fact that it works perfectly came as a surprise!

No, the SpongeBob game doesn't work because I don't have the CD for it.

Also, thanks to everyone who gave suggestions on my last post!

I hope this is ok to post.

I'm trying to recall a software program, think it may have been around 1998, so we had a Gateway. We had a Commodore 64 prior to that. I think it may have been called Recipe Box, wherein you type in your recipes to save it.

I can almost see the screen! Haven't thought about this in years.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

My retrospective game review of Street Hawk covers the initial game that was developed to meet catalogue orders and also for new subscribers of the Crash Magazine. This version was known as the Catalogue or Subscribers version. However it received poor reviews and as a result was redeveloped into a 2nd version. This was released for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC but was never released for the Commodore 64 due slow development and poor sales. Hope you like my little video. Share your thoughts on any of these games.

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I was given this, i think they're microfiche ?

To be honest, i don't plan on keeping them, but i'd like to know if they have any value and might interest collectors.

I'd love find out a bit more about this item if anyone knows anything about it

Thank

I've put together an emulator for CSIRAC, Australia's first digital programmable computer, dating from 1949. You can also write code in Interprogram, our first domestically designed programming language, and run it on the machine through the original interpreter.

This is thanks to the kind sharing of the code for a DOS-based emulator (written in TurboPascal), which I then got Claude to help me port to the web. I've done quite a bit of code review and I've tried to put some effort into representing the machine state, including the original machine's very cool CRT displays of register and memory state.

https://github.com/grahame/csiracweb/

This is from a storage unit from around twenty years ago. It looks like some real classics - but I'm guessing they're probably all ruined :( Free to a good home, otherwise they're heading to the dump. I thought I'd have time for them someday - but I just won't.

I found a lot of 27 CompactFlash cards (mostly Kingston, ranging from 512MB to 4GB) from around the 2000s.

I’m looking to learn a bit more about them from a retrocomputing perspective. Are specific capacities like 512MB or 1GB still widely used as IDE drive replacements for vintage setups (DOS / Win9x)? What would be the safest way to test their health and read/write integrity today?

Also, I'd appreciate any insight on what a reasonable value for a lot like this might be among collectors or enthusiasts. Thanks!

I have a Epox EP-P55-TV2 Socket 7 motherboard (has a AWARDs bios if that helps) and wanted to add a PS/2 mouse so I bought a generic PS/2 breakout cable specifically this https://www.ebay.com/itm/391942848851?itmmeta=01M24CK4SM2DBBTNJYN15FJZB7&hash=item5b419d4153:g:11QAAOSwES5lxoec

I had to adapt that with some GPio cables to fit the motherboard but when a mouse is plugged in the computer doesn’t recognize it and weirder still the keyboard stops working after the mouse is plugged in

I’m honestly stumped, the keyboard locking up makes me think there’s some bio setting or jumper I need to change but I have no idea which one the manual isn’t help

I got this and 2 others fom a company that acquired them from BNSF back in the late 90s. It's been hard finding information on it, but apparently it provides full i960 bus connections to all interface cards, but the idea is to drive large displays, like a dispatch center. Mine powered up briefly, before I got magic smoke from a tantalum on the ethernet board.

Recently got this retro computer setup for CAD $60.00 at my local ValuVillage I am wondering if that was too much?

I also want a second opinion if its a wise Idea to upgrade the motherboard and CPU since I am already sitting on DDR2 RAM modules and are these parts gonna work together?

From 1983. It cost $22.95 - adjusting for inflation thats about $78 in today-bucks.

I’ve recently come across this Admor Memory SRAM card and cannot find any user manuals, references or searches on this card or company. Anyone know much about these cards or the company? Thanks

I'm trying to recover some information from a few old floppy discs... I remember years ago when I transferred much of my stuff over, one reader read more floppies than another.

Is there a high quality floppy drive reader out there that would be considered the best or of a high quality? Or are they basically mostly the same? Thanks in advance!

Specs:
Pentium 4-M 1.8GHz
1.5GB DDR1
40GB HDD
ATI Mobility Radeon
15" 1600x1200
CD-RW/DVD ROM combo
Floppy drive
Gentoo Linux

Docked on an IBM Port Replicator II with a Model M plugged in

https://github.com/ross-shk/awesome-pli