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  1. Posted

    18 minutes ago, larrylaffer said:

    Two thoughts/questions:

     

    1. What is so fundamentally different between win 3.0 and win 3.1 that a 286 could run the first but not the second?

    2. Could it be that the at-speed board was produced and sold before win 3.1 were released?

     

    Dont ask me why this popped into my brain when reading this but I believe Win 3.1 required some sort of memory mgmt capability built into the 386 and not available in the 286.  I could be 150% wrong on this though :)

  3. Posted

    a buddy of mine his Dad had a 400 and 800 on 24x7 365.  1 was connected to an antenna pointed at Space - think pre-SETI.  The other was hooked up to a seismograph checking for earthquake activity.  The seismograph picked up Mt St Helens eruption and we were located on the East Coast of the US.

     

    He had to reboot the machines maybe once a month - but they never overheated and ran for atleast the 3 years I knew the guy.

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  12. Posted

    On 5/17/2020 at 12:24 AM, oracle_jedi said:

    I think for me it was sometime in mid 1989.

     

    I had an Atari 520ST.  I was at college studying a computer science program.   The college used RM Nimbus PCs, a mostly IBM compatible machine, and we used Turbo Pascal 2.0 for coding.  

     

    I found TP to be so much better than any programming language I had on the Atari.   I got PC Ditto for the Atari and used it to boot MS-DOS 3.3, copied TP from school and continued working from home.  The system was slow and tedious.  I got a second disk drive that helped.  I got an SM124 monitor which was so much better than the TV.  I was seriously thinking of spending the money from my part time job on one of the new hardware PC emulators for the Atari when I had a epiphany; if I am spending all this money and effort to make the ST run PC software, maybe I should dump the ST and get a PC instead.

     

    I thought about buying the Atari PC1 but I didn't like the lack of expansion slots, so I sold the ST and eventually bought a used Advance 86B, a horrid, crappy British PC-XT clone.  Later I upgraded to a Zenith Z200 (286/hard disk/MDA), then a TriGem 286 (286/hard disk/VGA), then a Zenith Z300 (386/hard disk/EGA), and eventually I salvaged an IBM PC-AT from my first post-grad job which I upgraded (Pentium/hard disk/SVGA/Sound Blaster). 

     

    That AT, which I acquired in 1994, remained my main PC until 2005 undergoing several upgrades until they stopped making PC-AT standard motherboards.

     

     

    Did you ever try Alice Pascal on the ST?  Great Pascal implementation ahead of its time from a syntax checking perspective :)

     

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    I was a die hard 8bit fan (800 then 130XE) before moving on to the 1040ST in '86.I did most of my College work on the 1040 and upgraded to a Mega 2ST when it came out.  I had the Magic Sac and then Spectre 128K carts.  I had the 286 board to run IBM stuff.  I had a 20MB and then 40MB ICD-FaST drive.  I was doing DTP and Wordperfect on the ST, Turbo Pascal on the Spectre and DOS stuff on the IBM piece.  It honestly was a great kit.  I added one of the 16mhz boards as well.

     

    Fast forward to '91/'92 and at my job I was working on a mainframe.  Dialing in from home was unheard of back then but was an option when the weather was bad.  None of the ST terminal software at the time accurately emulated a VT100 or VT52, forgot which.  The colors and screen drawing routines werent 100% and I couldnt do my work efficiently.  ProComm+ on the PC's was the best at the time and I needed a PC in order to move forward so I reluctantly bought a 386DX machine running Windows 3.0.  It sucked compared to my Mega 2 at the time but I could get any game I wanted now and eventually when I got a 486SX machine the Atari was packed up.

     

     

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  15. Posted

    12 hours ago, leech said:

    Ha, I totally could see that as a Monty Python style sketch. 

    Church is in session, doors burst open.  "Stop that, stop that!  They're be none of that here!"

    Only if there was a rabbit in that scene.........................

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  25. Posted

    Thanks for everyones help - I got a 32k addon and someone shared with me their folder structure.  Im running into another strange problem  that I wanted to make sure is something Im not doing wrong before asking the manufacturer:

     

    I purchased this FlashRom99 and also their 32k sidecar module from here:

    https://thebrewingacademy.com/collections/ti-99-4a/products/texas-instruments-99-4a-flashrom-99 

     

    From what Ive read I should be able to navigate folders when starting the computer with the F99, however I dont see any folders.  If I dont have any ROMs in the root of my SDHC card then the F99 doesnt appear in the bootup menu.  If I put the ROMs in the root then it shows up just fine (no folders) with the ROMs and I can play games.

     

    My question is are F99's different across vendors or would I need a more recent firmware or such?

     

    The 32k module solved my Munchman problem :) 

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