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

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

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’ve been working on a small project called 3Dos — a low-poly 3D renderer targeting MS-DOS and VGA Mode 13h (320×200, 256 colors).

The renderer currently supports:
● Triangle rasterization with backface culling
● Ordered dithering using a 4×4 Bayer matrix
● Double buffering
● Simple low-poly models

Going back to DOS-era graphics has been relaxing after spending quite a bit of time with Vulkan. No boilerplate or abstractions, just putting a pixel at 0xA000.

Github: https://github.com/xms0g/3Dos

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

A colleague gave it to me 25 years ago. He thought he was doing me a favor. It actually made me a little sad. I kept it anyway.

The VAXes were completely scrapped. He wasn't allowed to pull the modules for me, so he took the badges with him.

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.

Marsport is a science fiction computer game that was released for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC home computers in 1985. It was published by Gargoyle Games in the United Kingdom and Dro Soft in Spain. Marsport was intended to be the first part of a trilogy called "The Siege of Earth" but parts two and three (Fornax and Gath) were not forthcoming. Because of this, it is often regarded as being part of an unofficial trilogy alongside Tir Na Nog and Dun Darach (both of which are part of the same official series) due to its having very similar gameplay to these titles. Marsport also has similarities to the later Gargoyle game Heavy on the Magick.

The year is 2494. For seventy years, the Earth has been under siege by the insectoid Sept. Since the siege began, the Sept have been kept at bay by a huge Force Sphere which surrounds the Earth and the Moon. However, the Sept are on the verge of discovering how to breach the Sphere unless it can be strengthened according to the formulae contained in the original plans. Unfortunately, these plans are concealed somewhere in the Martian city of Marsport, now Sept-occupied and booby-trapped by the city's M-Central computer. One man, Commander John Marsh, has been sent to retrieve the plans in the belief that a determined man can sometimes achieve more than an army

Hi everyone. I'm looking to get my old Snap! Server 1100 running again. Its IDE disk died, and it seems like I need a disk image to rebuild a replacement disk.

Unfortunately it looks like the original ultimate source of information, the ProCooling forums, are long gone. After digging through the few WayBack Machine captures I've been able to find, it appears that I need either a DD image of a working 1100 disk, or a copy of 'Snap2000.zip' or 'snap2000.bin.rar', which seem to be unobtainable these days.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201127121247/http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=15648

Would anyone happen to have a copy of this image file? Or, barring that, would anyone here happen to have a Snap! 1100 or 2000 they'd be willing to get me a DD dump of?

Normally I wouldn’t buy a lcd but the interweb says this came out in 1998. Payed 8 bucks. Here’s hoping.?

This worked fully when I got it in 2013, in 2016 it stopped booting Windows, and in 2018 the internal screen stopped working. If I turn it on with an external monitor connected, it now gets to the point where it says it cannot find command . com .

Don't know if its fixable, I would like to get it working again in some state if possible.
Final picture is from 2016, only photo I have of it with the screen still working.

It came with a USB dongle, and an industrial looking serial cable with one end cut off, when I got it. I still have both.

It uses optical signaling between the mouse and the base/charger. The manual claims a 10 foot range. The manual refers to 386 compatibility.

Hi all. Finally able to post an update. DOS finally installed!

Issue with the last install was a bad diskette. Replaced disk 3, transferred the image and success!

Created a boot disk to run fdisk and format just in case.

Thanks all for your comments, and love seeing them.

Hopefully I'll start the build and full videos this weekend. Wish me luck.

Metal

Link to short video of install:

https://youtube.com/shorts/5qMRdlJT6po

I remember seeing these on store shelves when they first released and I had that box in my hands, but we were too broke back then and they were expensive. Never thought I'd see the box again.

Around this time, I saw a video online that I'd like to locate again. It was an intel concept video of the utility of a single device that formed the center of your digital life. It was shot in a similar way to AT&T's "You will" campaign from the 90s. It followed a person from the time they woke up and undocked a small, thin, rectagular device that was their entire digital device. They carried it into the kitchen and docked it and began to use it to access media. They go to work and it docked becomes their desktop computer. Later, it becomes other needed objects. Does anyone know a site that might have archived this? It's been dropped from youtube as far as I can see, but someone here may know where it might still be.

What in the world do I do with this? Found it at work in a file cabinet. Help! It counts as vintage according to the rules cuz the box is copyrighted 2005.

Folks really liked the video I did on Wargames, so I decided to do another one on Hackers. Let me tell you, this movie is not good. Sorry, but it's true. But it does touch on a bunch of cultural and technical things from the 80s and 90s.

Check it out. https://youtu.be/I-BK6mdBQhU

In various conditions may be willing to donate to someone in the Cleveland area.

I have this Dell Optiplex GX1 that I'm looking to take to the next level. The kicker with these though is that they don't have any AGP slots. The only one on the motherboard is taken up by the integrated video, some ati rage thing that I've already maxed out at 8mb. The usual go to for situations like this seems to be a voodoo 3 but I just cannot justify those prices right now. I'm not really concerned about period accuracy, I just want my Half Life to run above 15 fps. Anyone have recommendations for cards?

Hello! I’m hoping someone can help me here. My dad’s 60th birthday is coming up in a couple months and I have no idea what to get him….

He’s big into vintage computer stuff. He’s retired, but refurbishes vintage computers as a hobby (typically 80s/90s models) and even participates in a vintage computer convention in Vegas every year. He’s also into things like Star Trek and other Sci-Fi movies/tv, space and the cosmos, vintage pinball, And the regular “dad” stuff like grilling and outdoorsy type stuff but I’m so stumped on what to get him for such a big birthday without spending a fortune? I’d like to keep it under $400. Even knowing where to go to get him a new vintage computer to work on would be helpful! (Preferably not eBay since I’ve had so much bad luck with eBay sellers in the past…. Looking for a reputable website or something)

Any help and suggestions would be appreciated! I like computer and tech stuff too but I’m more of the modern video game kind of person so I don’t really know where to start.

TIA!!!

I tried heat and massaging, as well as static noise for a couple hours. All long shots, I know. I assume I have to replace the panels but even broken ibm 380 laptops go for over a hundo.