(Part 3) Top products from r/retrobattlestations

IMO, older Logitech are way better then modern. I still rock a X-620 set (though don't use the surround, just L-R-Sub) The sub makes an awesome foot rest under my desk, and when really cranked up, makes a nice foot warmer in the winter. I did improve on it though, adding a JBL S120PII Sub over in the corner.

What a coincidence.... the day you posted that photo i was reading your book :-). It was a great read, btw, i love reading such "diary/autobiography-like" books (i also read A Microsoft Life yesterday by Stephen Toulouse).

Nice. I wanted one of those, the Atari Portfolio or one of the HP line for a while, but I wound up getting into Psion Series 3 instead.

Probably the most useful thing would be a compact flash card formatted with FAT16 or FAT32 and a PCMCIA adapter for it. That's what I used to get files back and forth to similar Windows CE machines years ago.

SANOXY SANOXY_USB-PS2 PS2 Keyboard To USB Adapter https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BSJFJS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Oj22BbKKATRHR

This is the one you’ll want. I have an IBM Model M hooked up to my work computer through this and works great.

I’ve tried all the other cheap ps2/usb dual and single adapters and none of them worked for my PS2 keyboard or mouse

It was this thing:

https://www.amazon.com/Nyko-80610-AirFlo-Game-Controller/dp/B0000TNJWM

Edit: Looks like AirFlo was still making something similar for consoles at least up until a few years ago lol.

TMK works just fine as an inline adapter. You can build it however you want.

Otherwise, you're pretty much looking at this: https://www.amazon.com/Griffin-2001-ADB-iMate-Universal-adapter/dp/B000067V8L

Can confirm a cable like that would work. I use this one to connect my Mac SE to my modern machines. For software, I use Zterm which can be found here.

Haven't figured out file transfers yet, but I know Zterm has the option. If you can find someone capable of making an 800k disk for your plus you'll be set.

Okay that's one impressive bag of PCMCIA accessories. I had the same 10baseT card and the CF card adapter. But you're missing the most important one.

If you like this documentary - read the book it's based on "Accidental Empires" by the same guy.

Would something like this work?

What inputs do you have? It'll be Mono 1/4" to RCA to what ever you can capture.

Would you call it... A friendly orange glow ?

still available complete with reviews from 1999

I use this

https://www.amazon.com/Vantec-CB-ISATAU2-Supports-2-5-Inch-5-25-Inch/dp/B000J01I1G


It lets you plug in SATA and IDE drives, and it comes with a molex power supply to power them

Amazon!

Had to change capacitors once. Thats about it. Had to upgrade my gaming rig last year to a flat panel due to space. I absolutely hate it. CRT is so much better.

This was the love of my gaming life

I was just researching some retro gamepads, I wasn't prepared for this this early. On the plus side, I somehow scored an old parallel port Sidewinder for $2.24 with Prime shipping.

I have a DEC Rainbow connected to my RPI using serial. It's not particularly hard. I suggest buying a USB-to-RS232 adapter. Mine is a TRENDnet that seems to work fine on all Linux machines I've plugged it into.

I also have a serial adapter on my GPIO pins using a MAX3232 chip. This solution, however, stinks. The RPI only provides TX/RX on the GPIO pins. There are no other pins, making hardware flow control impossible. There are no DTS, DCD, RTS, CTS, etc. signals available. These lacking features really confuse some of the Rainbow's comm software. On top of that, operating above 9600bps without these flow control mechanisms, even though Xon/Xoff flow control is enabled, regularly leads to a corrupted data stream. That's why I would strongly suggest using the USB-to-RS232 adapter instead of the RPI's GPIO pins.

If all else fails, you can get one of these to retrieve what ever you want from the hard drive directly.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000HJ99DI/

The network cards are generic Intel 21143 network cards - they are a "reference design" card, tons of manufacturers made identical cards. (Intel made the schematics available for free!) Nearly every OS made since Windows 98 SE should have drivers for it built-in.

Dear $deity, whipper-snapper! That "first motherboard" is roughly equivalent to the one I bought for the computer I built when I was in college! Nice board with onboard Matrox graphics. Sad no AGP. The port shield for that should be readily available - that was the "standard backplane layout" (the VGA port location was generally either VGA or a second 9-pin serial port.) Ah, here you go: Standard ATX I/O Shield - $3.49

To find out how fast the "second motherboard" Pentium is, take the CPU out, it will say on the labeling on the underside. And THAT PORT IS NOT POWER!!! That is an AT keyboard port. (The predecessor to PS/2.) You can use a standard PS/2 keyboard through an adapter. You'll want a PCI video card - ISA will be painful. You also might want serial and/or parallel back-panel cables. (Single 9-pin Serial, Parallel, Dual 9-pin/25-pin Serial.)