17 Jan
2007
17 Jan
'07
11:54 p.m.
The laptop served me as a terminal, after the flyback transformer of my
VT320 died. (Side info: there are new VT320 flyback transformers on ebay for
$4 each. But the news is too late for me.)
I was facing the question as what to do. Buy a real terminal? Buy another
8086-386 laptop? Buy a mac SE? Buy a small used IDE HD? Buy serial cable for
the HP 100LX I have? Replace the unreliable floppy drive?
After one hour of surfing the internet, I finally bought 4 IDE-CF adapters
(laptop and desktop versions, $2 each). One for the laptop, one for the
pentium PC linux router, one for the 386 desktop.
Just want to share the experience with you so you do not need to waste the 1
hour as I did.
vax, 9000
18 Jan
18 Jan
1:19 a.m.
9000 VAX wrote:
After one hour of surfing the internet, I finally
bought 4 IDE-CF adapters
(laptop and desktop versions, $2 each). One for the laptop, one for the
pentium PC linux router, one for the 386 desktop.
Just want to share the experience with you so you do not need to waste
the 1
hour as I did.
Where did you find the IDE-CF adapters? I'm in need of a few myself.
--
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1:34 a.m.
On 1/18/07, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
9000 VAX wrote:
After one hour of surfing the internet, I finally
bought 4 IDE-CF
adapters
(laptop and desktop versions, $2 each). One for
the laptop, one for the
pentium PC linux router, one for the 386 desktop.
Just want to share the experience with you so you do not need to waste
the 1
hour as I did.
Where did you find the IDE-CF adapters? I'm in need of a few myself. From that biggest on-line bazaar that many list
members are bashing now for
its lastest BS.
vax, 9000
--
Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org)
http://www.oldskool.org/
Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/
Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/
6:21 p.m.
9000 VAX wrote:
That's not very helpful; what kind of names did they have, what did you
search for, is there a seller who has many of these that you were
satisfied with, etc.?
--
Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/
Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/
Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/
Where did you
find the IDE-CF adapters? I'm in need of a few myself.
From that biggest on-line bazaar that many list members are bashing
26 Jan
26 Jan
2:56 a.m.
9000 VAX wrote:
> > Just want to share the experience with you so
you do not need to waste
> > the 1
> > hour as I did.
...and thanks to that advice, my 5160 has an additional 320MB of space
thanks to one of these little adapter wonders and an IBM microdrive :)
--
Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/
Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/
Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/
18 Jan
18 Jan
3:05 p.m.
9000 VAX wrote:
The laptop served me as a terminal, after the flyback
transformer of my
VT320 died. (Side info: there are new VT320 flyback transformers on
ebay for
$4 each. But the news is too late for me.)
If you go this way, make sure you
test/replace the horizontal transistor
also,
or you might be looking for more replacements.
I was facing the question as what to do. Buy a real
terminal? Buy another
8086-386 laptop? Buy a mac SE? Buy a small used IDE HD? Buy serial
cable for
the HP 100LX I have? Replace the unreliable floppy drive?
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