r/vintagecomputing

If all goes to plan I am picking up an Osborne 2 Executive this afternoon. It is in working condition it seems and comes with manuals and quite a lot of software.

I watched a few videos about the machine this morning, and it seems that even though it was working when the previous owner showed it, advice is not to run it until replacing all of the old RIFA capacitors inside.

Is this an absolute or can they be left until such time as they fail?

Forgive me if I should have just Googled this, but wanted to ask here as I respect your opinions

I have an old IBM ps2 25 that I’m fixing but it has no hard drive, I was wondering if I could get my hands on an isa to memory card adapter or something, or if I’m stuck trying to find a hard drive/hard drive adapter for it

I have 2 IBM 5150s. For what ever reason the lids weren't on them when they went into storage. The lids ended up in a leaky garage the desktop ended up in the house. Both lids have some heavy rust on top. Is there a paint that matches well so I can strip and repaint them?

has anyone tested the performance of a ball mouse on a glass mousepad?

Would that be a problem if its expired?

//problem

I connected a 32GB SSD and formatted it with FreeDOS using Rufus.

I then extracted the Windows 98 SE files and copied them to the SSD. After that, I ran the setup program with setup.exe. However, after Scandisk finished and the installation screen appeared, I received an error message stating that more than 16MB of RAM is required. but my nc10 has 512 ram aleady!! what the heck??

//hardware

My hardware setup is a Samsung NC-10 notebook with an Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor, 512MB DDR2 RAM, and a 32GB SSD.

The Classical Computing Laboratory (sometimes shortened to POK-CCL or CCL@POK) is a historical computing center accessible to IBM employees and official site visitors, with the stated goal of our collection being available for hands-on use. IBMers can come in and use the equipment between the hours of 12 and 2 PM every Wednesday, or by special appointment. This presents a number of amazing potential opportunities, ranging from employee experience to education outreach to client/customer relations.

Photos can be found here.