Posted in Uncategorized, vintage on Nov 16th, 2023
This year’s project has been running a vintage DOS-based bulletin board system like I use to run in 1995 before I started my ISP. I’m running Wildcat! 4.20 Multiline 10, the same as I did back then, except now under Windows 7 32-bit instead of Windows 95. It has real US Robotics Courier modems that […]
Posted in vintage on Sep 2nd, 2023
If you’re running Qodem on MacOS with iTerm2, you may notice extended ASCII/code page 437 characters don’t render as lines, but just a bunch of letters like PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP. Try unsetting the environment variable TERMINFO_DIRS (unset TERMINFO_DIRS) before starting Qodem. This seems to have fixed it for me. I figured this out by noticing when I […]
Posted in vintage on Sep 1st, 2023
[photos: flickr – Seagate ST-225 repair] A follow-up to https://binaryfury.wann.net/2023/07/2023-drive-belt-saga/ I wound up buying another “parts only” Seagate ST-225 hard drive off of eBay to attempt to fix my ST-225. This is a 20 MB MFM drive out of the old family 286 computer. Long story short I’m pretty sure my repair worked but ultimately […]
Posted in vintage on Aug 13th, 2023
[photos: flickr – 486 of Theseus] I originally bought this 486DX2-66 system on eBay because I needed a legacy system with a floppy disk controller to run a Colorado tape drive, which it coincidentally had one, and Windows 95. The motherboard has VESA local bus slots on it too, something I wanted if I wound […]
Posted in vintage on Jul 29th, 2023
A series in yak shaving… I’ve been working on vintage equipment all summer, mainly from bringing back old computers and media back from Oklahoma with the intent of trying to get the systems running again like an old ’67 Mustang and/or retrieving the data for memories sake. I’ve quickly learned if it’s not an old […]
Posted in vintage on Jul 3rd, 2023
Starting in high school English I and onward we had to spend like 10 minutes every class period writing in a journal that we had to hand in at the end of the nine week period for grading. Presumably this was to get us to write more and use our words, and we’d be graded […]
Posted in vintage on Jun 18th, 2023
This is going to read like one of those annoying-ass online recipes because I’m gonna write down some of my experiences with the TRS-80 before I start getting into what I’ve been doing to get it going again. However it is Father’s Day and this was my Dad’s computer so it’s kind of fitting. After […]
