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TI Programmable 58 - powerful but always losing memory
11/23/13
This calculator was a milestone in terms of programming capabilities, but not a success.
It was soon (1.5 years later, 1979) replaced with a similar calculator model but with a persistent memory - the TI-58C.
There was also a big brother with more memory and a magnetic stripe reader, the T -
SNES (PAL) and a rare NTSC cartridge "Frogger"
11/17/13
Friends of casual games will remember one of the most famous classics: Frogger.
For Super Nintendo (SNES), this game was selled only in the U.S. / Canada.
So how can you play it with an european PAL-based SNES ?
Easy, you need only an adapter, which reports a PAL cartridge to th -
Texas Instruments SR-51-II ... a more complex calculator than you think
11/07/13
This was a mixture between an older SR-51A and the later TI-55, it's inner electronics is more complex than comparable other TI models of the same decade.
My own one is working, but in a less desirable condition, around the power switch, painting is already gone. Also, I had to open it bec
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And another CP/M chess program: MYCHESS 2.3
My ZIP 100 dropped about 50cm down to the ground - dead :-(
Comparison of free memory for an old IBM PC/XT compatible system
NSA compatible devices/software .... easier for customers to get them now ;-)
And another CP/M chess program: MYCHESS 2.3
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LBA 48bit vs 28bit BIOS support and DOS/Windows 98 FAT32 limits
Ontrack Disk Manager adventures
Comparison of free memory for an old IBM PC/XT compatible system
Hard Disk Imaging Utility for (very) old PCs - now in beta status
Strange DOSBOX (with latest version 0.74-3) behaviour with a sample benchmark program
Ghost HDD imaging history ... Wikipedia ignores versions below 3
Remarkable site and blog: The 'Computer History Museum'
Two interesting pages about the Olivetti M20 - one of the few computer which have a Z8000 and can run CP/M-8000
Off topic: Microsoft Safety Scanner ... not really recommendable. See why.
FMA 3500, a 486DX Notebook with monochrome LCD VGA display
Ontrack Disk Manager adventures
Comparison of free memory for an old IBM PC/XT compatible system
Hard Disk Imaging Utility for (very) old PCs - now in beta status
Strange DOSBOX (with latest version 0.74-3) behaviour with a sample benchmark program
Ghost HDD imaging history ... Wikipedia ignores versions below 3
Remarkable site and blog: The 'Computer History Museum'
Two interesting pages about the Olivetti M20 - one of the few computer which have a Z8000 and can run CP/M-8000
Off topic: Microsoft Safety Scanner ... not really recommendable. See why.
FMA 3500, a 486DX Notebook with monochrome LCD VGA display
Administrator (Peter Dassow)
07/03/16
Cyrus runs also on Hercules cards, but only in Textmode. Administrator (Peter Dassow)
09/20/08
Added: I was looking for additional infos about the GSX-80...
07/03/16
Cyrus runs also on Hercules cards, but only in Textmode. Administrator (Peter Dassow)
09/20/08
Added: I was looking for additional infos about the GSX-80...
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