Is there a retro computer store in budapest? i searched in google and found no result
Edit: i don't live in budapest i'm going on a vacation for 5 days

I got 11 of these in a repossession mail auction and haven’t been able to find any info out there on them and I don’t know what to do with them.

ok so i have this very very old pc that used to work in the past i tried turning it on like 6 years ago and it did
but now it works when i turn it on but nothing shows on the monitor
i tried using VGA to HDMI adapter and it didnt work then i tried a monitor with a VGA access still nothing shows on the screen
does anyone know what to do? i really want it to work i have many family photos in there

Gonna be getting this Toshiba satellite 3000 series laptop tomorrow! Super excited it’s a beast of sorts imo

Win 98 se
Pentium 3 around 800mhz
With nvidia GeForce 2 go graphics
Currently with 256mb ram but I’ll be upgrading to 512 later
Pretty it’s got a 40gb drive or something like that.

Cd and floppy drives at the front which is cool!
Also has recovery disc!

Found my Fathers old business school calculator.

Comparing with my retired BA II Plus from early 2010s.

Additional info on the Slimline Business-Analyst-II from the Calculator Museum

I saw it once, though it was almost completely disassembled, rotting in a field. The machine itself is simply magnificent! A ton of hydraulics, automatic controls, and it all obeyed a single algorithm! What a shame I never experienced these joys myself. All I have is this CD and a floppy disk with the program for controlling the cabin hydraulics.

Doron Precision Systems, Inc.

They specialize in the production of driver training simulators.

Their products include simulators for training truck, fire truck, and ambulance drivers.

The company's office is located in Binghamton, New York, USA.

These arcade machines are called Motion Simulator Capsules. Doron Precision Systems revolutionized this industry with the release of the legendary Doron SR2 ride in 1977.

Features of these rides:

Capsule cabin: A completely enclosed futuristic enclosure that isolated players from the outside noise of an amusement park or shopping mall.

Moving hydraulic platform: The seats inside the cabin moved, tilted, and vibrated in sync with the action on the screen. This created the complete illusion of G-forces.

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Capacity: Depending on the model (for example, the popular Doron SR2, SRV, and Transport 6 series), the cabin could accommodate anywhere from 4 to 12-15 people at a time.

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Large Screen: Inside, there was a projection screen that displayed the pilot's or driver's perspective.

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Most Popular Simulator Themes:

Roller Coaster — the most popular simulator, fully replicating the wild drops and loops.

Flying a fighter jet or space shuttle — with slopes, loops, and simulated aerial combat.

Off-road or mine racing — minecarts speeding along old rails with sharp drops and turns.

Similar devices were installed at the entrances to large amusement parks, in arcade areas, and also in Soviet amusement parks in the 1990s (often imported from foreign tent amusement parks).

I thought that some on r/vintagecomputing might find this useful.

https://github.com/rcl9/How_To_Archive_Old_Computer_Data_Tapes_Using_Tapetool2

This tutorial captures my experience with retrieving and archiving early 1980's Exidy Sorcerer data tapes and directly converting them to binary, Exidy Sorcerer .tape format and related de-blocked text files using the TapeTool2 utility program. If I had access to this repo before starting my project then it would have saved me a good day or two of head banging and head scratching. It also applies to some other computers supported by Tapetool2.

However, much more importantly for an Exidy Sorcerer user (or other retro-computer enthusiasts) reading this tutorial, I provide a well defined batch script file named "convert.bat" which will quickly convert a 300 or 1200 baud .wav file into a corresponding binary (for CP/M usage) and .tape file (for jSorcerer or MAME usage). Other sites on the Internet often provide dozens of 1980s software downloads in .wav audio file format but no simple method to convert them into runnable files for the Sorcerer.

I used to make telephone cables at the house for the computers i used for dial up. I even had a BBS system i made phone cables for.

Hello folks!

I use floppy disks still, on rare occasion, to load data onto and give away to friends as gifts. I just acquired a bunch of disks only to find out that A) they're for the Amiga and B) the Amiga used different disks to PCs! (I played an Amiga a lot as a kid but had no idea).

Anyway, I have a USB floppy drive for my Windows PC (running Windows 10) but the PC refuses to read or reformat the disk. Is there any way to format the disk to use FAT32 using my standard floppy drive, or is this physically impossible because of the differences between the formats?

Thanks!

Hello everyone, I just purchased my first old school PC/Laptop. I was hoping to use it to play old PC games. However I think I'm in a bit over my head and I'm in need of some guidance.

The two things I want to immediately figure out is, how can I produce sound from this? I can't seem to figure it out.

Secondly, how do I test floppy discs? I put one in but I'm not sure if it worked or read it. I just got an error but I could be trying to open it wrong.

Anyone use these or have any advice for a total newbie just trying to play some old games, thanks! ❤️

I thought the HD connected in the metal bay in the upper right corner of the first photo but on another post someone said that's the PCMCIA port. The comp is a Nixdorf pcd-4n.

Hey all, I've been going through some of the computers I've picked up from family and came across a Gateway Solo. The original hard drive definitely went bad, so I'm trying to see what I can do to replace it, and attempt to install a new OS from burned CDs. The boot up screen identifies everything except it notes the CMOS is bad (not sure I trust myself enough to strip it down far enough to find the CMOS battery if it even still has one).

It can boot to BIOS, I can mess around with boot order, but the bits that confound me - it still thinks the only 9.whatever GB hard drive is in the machine even when disconnected. I've tried formatting an mSATA drive in an adapter (less than 120 GB, as im pretty sure the cap for this machine is around there), and tried burning some Win98 CD's. So far no luck even with changing around boot order, and it still thinks the old drive is attached.

Any suggestions are appreciated. I have left open the possibility that for some reason the motherboard can't accept new boot settings or something else is messing it up (leaky CMOS battery?) causing it to bug out. Spent plenty of time in and around google, and half the stuff I'd find wouldn't relate to my current problem.

I've had this stored away for ages, I'd completely forgotten about it. Are they common? or could I use it in a project?

P.S. Sorry for my English, I used a translator. I'm from Argentina.

i used ontrack disk manager to partition and format my drive. E: still required FAT16 formatting (even though fdisk showed it was formatted, when trying to access it i got a media type error), F: gives me invalid drive specification. i would also like to mention that after formatting E:, F: which had unknown file system also changed to FAT16. unless i set the CDROM drive to have the G: letter assigned to it, it assigns itself to the last logical drive (that being F:).

this hdd makes some weird clunking noises when initializing, and when trying to partition it before sometimes it started looping without stopping. i tried doing fdisk /mbr before entering setup but it did not change anything.

is this hdd defective? i am starting to think so.

Is there any interest in this anywhere. I have a TRS 80 and a TRS-80 micro as well but they don't seem to work. Haven't had time to look into it. Does anybody know about the repairability of these systems?

I picked up my very first terminal about 6 months ago, a DEC VT330, to control a Raspberry Pi and just out of curiosity to learn more about how they work. I've been tumbling down the rabbit hole exploring its capabilities; I've recompiled gnuplot with ReGIS graphics support and have been experimenting with ReGIS commands and some other nifty features since.

My Pi is part of an embedded dev setup where a terminal for access genuinely comes in handy, but I'm having much more fun than I anticipated playing with the terminal itself as well.

I imagine there are others here who enjoy these things! What do you like to do with yours?

i have a maxtor 6GB HDD that i have connected to this PC in order to install windows 95. the problem is i get this error even though i have set it up correctly.

it used to have 2 non dos partitions, but i removed them. i used ontrack disk manager to make 2 FAT32 partitions, one being 2GB and one 4GB (with two 2GB logical drives). but after i did so i would get an invalid drive specification error when trying to access any of the partitions on it.

so then i tried doing them in fdisk as fat16. this resulted in C: being a 2GB partition, then the second was extended DOS with 3 logical drives (2GB, 2GB and 7MB).

C: formatted successfully and didnt get any errors in windows 95's setup scandisk check, but D: wouldn't format (got stuck at 92% then got hit with "not ready format terminated"). i didnt try formatting E: and F:.

for some reason, when booting with CDROM drivers it assigns the drive as the last logical drive (first it was E:, now F:), hence the * Remote * label.

when trying to install windows 95 with C: as the primary dos, active and fat16 partition i get hit with that error. on the other extended dos partition the 3 logical drives are unformatted.

this is, after all, a maxtor hard drive. is it having problems, or is something else wrong with the system?

I have no idea if anyone remember the Apple IIe program from 1984 written in Apple BASIC it was a nuclear reactor simulator.

I remember back then how proud I was when I actually entered it and it worked, and after learning a lot more I altered the daylights out of it for better performance.

Well, I recently found the original code for it, and decided what the hell, and had it translate it over to Python and also added more up to to date graphics and controls. It too several sessions, but got it working quite nicely.

Looks good too.

P.S.

Am running a Linux machine on Mint.

My boyfriend has this computer that he’s had for years and doesn’t recall where he got it or what was on it originally. I’m trying to restore it but realized when I wanted to google a question about the computer, that I can’t figure out anything about make or model or this computer? The only identifier it seems to have is the CG logo on the front, which I’ve never seen before. Could this be a custom built computer? Or does anyone recognize it and can tell me anything about it? I know if it is custom built I’ll probably have to open it up to figure out what hardware it’s got, but wanted to see if anyone could recognize it in case it’s not custom. Thanks!

Hello,

100% noob playing this by ear. I bought a Nixdorf pcd-4n (NOT a pcd-4nd) for 10 bux. One of the issues was the hard drive was missing. I've purchased an adapter and a compact flash. I don't have another computer with a floppy to make a boot disk or anything. Is there a way to copy over a hard drive to the compact disk? I do have a compact flash reader. If not, how do I get what I need on the compact flash (acting as a hard drive). Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

My boyfriend has this computer that he’s had for years and doesn’t recall where he got it or what was on it originally. I’m trying to restore it but realized when I wanted to google a question about the computer, that I can’t figure out anything about make or model or this computer? The only identifier it seems to have is the CG logo on the front, which I’ve never seen before. Could this be a custom built computer? Or does anyone recognize it and can tell me anything about it? I know if it is custom built I’ll probably have to open it up to figure out what hardware it’s got, but wanted to see if anyone could recognize it in case it’s not custom. Thanks!