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I've seen a related question or two about the possibility of saving from a vintage machine to PC audio but not on this specific issue I think. I would like to save cassette audio directly from - in ...

I'm analyzing a Fortran IV program written for a PDP-10. I was briefly acquainted with the language but had never studied it. Now I have a couple Fortran reference manuals (IV and 77), and I'm ...

I recently dug up my old Samsung NP-NC110, which is a not-so-formidable notebook from the early 2010s. I'm currently trying to install Windows 2000 on it as a fun project, since I already have a main ...

The method I am referring to is visible in videos such as these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu5zd5fCaPA https://youtu.be/fWDxdoRTZPc?si=cqPRdGtLAR_uAfK7&t=509 The PC speaker from what I ...

has anyone here ever had a similar problem? I'm basically trying to use my CF card interface board that used to work with another memory card, which unfortunately got damaged (my fault). Now I only ...

The Amiga CD32 had an additional chip not found on other AGA machines, the Akiko. This is listed as having two main uses: It's the CD-ROM Controller in the system (which doesn't seem like something a ...

Studying part of the code of firmware from the Datamaster, I wasn't able to find the I/O ports for the NEC765. Observing the hardware I have observed what it seems to be a 8048[1] in between both ...

What do the jumpers control on a Mitsumi D539W drive, as in below photo? I've looked but can't find documentation for this specific drive, which has one cable connector for 2 individual floppy drives -...

I have an old PC with Windows XP Professional installed. It was working normally. The PC is connected to a Biesse machine (model Rover A3.30 manufactured in 2007). This machine is operated by software ...

I am repairing an IBM System/23 Datamaster model 5322, which has its original CRTC faulty and needs to be replaced. I have tried various Intel 8275 and some others from dubious origin as they seem ...

CP/M and MS-DOS had several characteristics are derived from DEC operating systems, such as Control-Z EOF, the coloned device name (drive letter) prefix of file identifiers, 3-character filename ...

I think this game was unique. The plot is to free a soccer champion who was kidnapped (!) before the match start, so the game is action. If you have success and free the kidnapped champion you can ...

There is this idea that the capital injection that Apple got from Microsoft and Bill Gates was some sort of noble gesture, but I always thought was the case that this was purely a business deal. ...

It seems that this trade-in practice of trying to get old Apple devices off the market is as old as the Apple company itself. I just wonder where this practice comes from because all other electronic ...

I recently uncovered some old VM/CMS files that I archived around 30 years ago and have been looking at them out of curiosity. Since these were from an IBM System/370XA and VM/CMS, they're in EBCDIC ...