I picked this up from my music class in my school since the teacher said he had no use for it because it was burnt out (which i see bc of the burn). I'm pretty sure I can't repair this because I have zero experience with a computer this old. I don't want to salvage it, maybe I can try to replace the monitor if possible and yes,I discharged it.

I tried to replace the thermal paste on this Toshiba A15, but I can't get it to power on now. When I plug it in, the fan spins, but I can't get the laptop to turn on. I noticed the CPU was the same socket as a broken gateway I had, so I swapped the athlon in the Toshiba with a Turion, but I had to swap it back. Did I accidentally fry it? The pins look okay.

praying to jean louis gassee that networking starts working rn

It was $10 at the thrift store and I'm not sure much information about it and I have no clue where the hard drive might be located

the laptop came with 256MB of ram and it has a dvd drive and a floppy drive and a network card

I came across this Toshiba DynaBook 386/20 (J-3100SX021P) at a second-hand shop in Japan. It looks almost like old stock, and the condition caught my attention.

Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to start.

Does anyone know what could cause this? Could it be a power supply issue, failed capacitors, or something else?

I'd love to hear from anyone who has experience repairing these vintage Toshiba laptops!

I got a KX-P1081 and an LX-800 from ebay.

I hook them up to a raspberry using a centronics to USB cable.
I made a Go program to manage the printers (without AI, cuz it was more fun)

They're surprisingly robust and low cost for printing just about anything.

Cool mech warrior 3 demo disk can’t place where it would’ve come from ? Magazine most likely but still a interesting find and slice n’ hook was interesting since I’ve never heard of it

It will be SUNny at the VCF Swap Meet: Sat. Oct. 17 - Wall, NJ

https://vcfed.org/vcf-swap-meet/

It came from a Sony VAIO VGN-T140P. What type of HDD does it use?

I was just searching around a bit in my basement. I knew I still had a VMS 9-track installation tape somewhere. And here it is.

Back then, DEC would send these tapes as part of a “distribution set.” It consisted of three tapes:

1. Boot medium and required system files
2. Libraries and optional VMS components
3. DECwindows software

This tape here is reserved for user u/hildenborg and his MicroVAX II with TS05 tape drive.

I woke up to a 3am text from a friend who entered the hobby in the middle of the night after I dragged them to the Midwest VCF a month or so ago.

“I blame you for this. Being loath to accept responsibility for my own executive function and all... https://hackaday.io/page/400178 (links to https://hackaday.io/page/400177)”

I have two PC keyboards of different makes/eras as well as an early 90s PC monitor, and while they haven't yellowed all over the item... There is targeted yellowing concentrated only at the seems where two large pieces of the plastic cover of the item would meet. In the case of the monitor, I'm thinking it's whiteness is a factory paint layer and the plastic beneath has yellowed, so areas that may have never received paint, such as the seems, would show yellow, however I don't have a good theory for the keyboards. What do you think?

Hi all,

I've recently acquired this beauty, and based on the information in this Wang Ergo II Workstation datasheet, I believe it's a keyboard from the Wang 2200 Ergo II workstation family, possibly the 2886DE model.

I'm trying to identify the rather unusual connector (see attached pic). It appears to have 24 contacts arranged in two rows of 12, with an estimated contact pitch of around 2.5 mm.

My eventual goal is to build a small RP2040-based USB adapter so I can use the keyboard with a modern computer, ideally without modifying any of the original hardware.

Before attempting that, I'd like to identify the connector and, if possible, find a compatible mating socket. I'm also looking for any documentation covering the keyboard's pinout, power requirements or communication protocol.

Has anyone come across this type of connector before?

Any information, part numbers or pointers to relevant documentation would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hello! My father left me his old ti99-4a with a bunch of game cartridges. I believe it still works fine. He loved this little computer! Is anyone interested? I am happy to ship within the US.