Hey everyone,

FSX_RETRO - Retro computing and any old tech discussions. From early computer hardware and software, calculators, watches and more. if you have collected it, use it, need it fixed tell us about it here.

Yay! I'm so glad this base has been created! Especially as it seems that RetroNet is not so active/not taking new members on at the moment...

Some of you already know me from my YouTube channel, "Al's Geek Lab", but I
do lots of retro stuff on the channel. My collection is modest these days (I used to have my own museum back in the UK). My current collection consists of: * IBM 5162 XT/286 (that's the machine I'm using to write this message with!)
* IBM 5160 XT
* IBM 5170 AT
* Compaq Prolinea 4/100
* Apple IIe Platinum
* Apple IIGS ROM3 with Uthernet2
* Apple Macintosh SE
* Apple PowerBook 520 & 540
* Osborne 1
* Panasonic Sr. Partner
* and a few other things that either don't work, or haven't been tested yet

The main thing I love to do is make the machines work on the net. Push them
to their limits and expand them to the point where they are no longer expandable, whilst keeping them using their original motherboard. For
example, my XT has a 286 daughtercard, 1MB RAM (around 760k usable) and a network card. My XT286 has a 1.5MB AboveBoard RAM card, a compact flash
drive, a 3com NIC and is paired with an ATI EGA Wonder 800+ with the IBM 5154 EGA display. My pride and joy!

If you want help with anything DOS machine related, I should be able to help because that's what I play with most.

Cheers!
Al // hyjinx


hyjinx // Alistair Ross
Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube) alsgeeklab.com

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I just want to say I loved the documentary. You had some excellent production values and it was a contributor to me joining the modern BBS scene (although MeatLotion was probably the main catalyst ;)).

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Some of you already know me from my YouTube channel, "Al's Geek Lab",
but I do lots of retro stuff on the channel. My collection is modest
these days (I used to have my own museum back in the UK). My current collection consists of: * IBM 5162 XT/286 (that's the machine I'm using
to write this message with!) * IBM 5160 XT
* IBM 5170 AT
* Compaq Prolinea 4/100
* Apple IIe Platinum
* Apple IIGS ROM3 with Uthernet2
* Apple Macintosh SE
* Apple PowerBook 520 & 540
* Osborne 1
* Panasonic Sr. Partner
* and a few other things that either don't work, or haven't been tested yet

I will have to check out your Youtube channel. Always looking for good new content to waste time at work :)

Nice collection. I have just recently started getting into PC compatibles. I have had a 5155 and a 5160 for a while. I just picked up a 5150 earlier this summer and most recently I picked up a PS/2 Model 30 and an Atari ABC
386DX-II. I have mostly focused on Atari in the past but I have Commodore's, Apple's, TRS-80's, TI and a lot of unique units.

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On 12 Jun 2021 at 04:07p, hyjinx pondered and said...

If you want help with anything DOS machine related, I should be able to help because that's what I play with most.

Ah DOS.... many many hours spent with this before 1995 rolled around... and Start Me Up played in our ears...

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I hope this can help you to connect your MSX to a BBS

Thanks for the informations.
Will take a look into it.

Regards
Andreas

-=Kautzner-Computer-Museum=-
zahrl.ddns.net:2023
https://kcm.or.at

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Hi!
You can connect to the BBS's with:
- BaDCat wifi cartridge.
- Obsonet Ethernet cartridge.
- GR8NET ethernet cartridge
... and if you have only a rs232 cartridge you can plug in easily an Nodemcu8266 + COM6 Terminal toconnect with ANSI full color :)
You can find these Msx cartridges easily with google, if you need more info, write me :)

Thanks, will take a look into it.

Regards
Andreas

-=Kautzner-Computer-Museum=-
zahrl.ddns.net:2023
https://kcm.or.at

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* Origin: KCM BBS (21:1/218)