Unhanded Computers

• Had a faulty ROM - took from donor-board

• Has a brand new PLA - modern type.

• Cleaned and removed paper-shield.

• Testet with cartridge and harness - se picture.

• Bought in March 2024

• No PSU

• Stor Commodore 64 pakke med spill, diskettstasjon, joystick, t-skjorte med mer. | FINN-torget 

• Not working - at least not in the one machine it was tested.

• Sold?

• 15.6MB/sec

• 80286 CPU

• 512KB RAM - expandable to 1MB

• 16/32 bit data transfer

• Manual

• Driver for DOS, Netware, Windows and OS/2 Version 1.3

• Tested on WestXT386, but did not find CF (with XT-IDE BIOS on 3COM)

• Location: Sold?

• Bought in March 2024

• No faults

• Cleaned

• With PSU. Tested.

Sold with white 1541 floppy drive, two joysticks, some floppies, and a t-shirt.

• In box

• Working - tested with harnes and cartridge

• Look very fine on the outside.

• No PSU

• Motorola 68000, 8MHz, 1MB RAM

• TOS 1.00

• Motherboard: CO70523-001 Rev.D

• Gotek Floppy Emulator

• 320 × 200 (16 color), palette of 512 colors, 640 × 200 (4 color), palette of 512 colors and 640 × 400 (mono)

• Sound: Yamaha YM2149 3-voice square-wave plus 1-voice white noise mono 

• Wikipedia

• 4 x 1MB RAM

• Windows 95

• 2 X 200MB HDD

• 3,5" Floppy - Tested ok

• 5 1/4" Floppy - Tested ok

• Brand new Keyboard

• Extra cpu board

• Need new battery - not leaking

• Zilog Z80 - 3Mhz. 16-32 KB RAM + separate screen memory 

• Graphics: 78×72 block graphics

• Sound: 1-channel Texas Instruments SN76477

• The Luxor ABC 80 is working fine - after repairing the keyboard pads.

• I have not yet fixed the tape-drive. 

• Service Manual ABC80 and Tapedrive. User manual.  User manual cassette-player.

• Software. CD-CARD for the ABC 80. ABC.

• The software called ABCCAS lets you convert program til WAV.

• Facebook page

• YouTube Page

• Successfully connected it to a PC and loads demos from .wav files into the cassette port. 

• Phase 5 Blizzard 1220/4

  • Processor: EC020@28MHz

  • FPU: Optional 68881 or 68882@14MHz or 28MHz (PLCC)

  • MMU: None

  • Max Ram: 4MB (8MB with optional expansion)

    • Extra 4MB RAM installed (after pictue was taken)

  • RTC uses a rechargeable battery.

• 81MB Mechanical HDD - with a very soothing sound.

• Norwegian Workbench

• Pentium 100MHz - 8MB EDO RAM - 1.2GB HDD

• IBM MWAVE Sound/modem Card - SB Compatible

• Has a new installed Windows 95 - or maybe the original installation!

• Have installed 2 GB CF card - original hdd is in the machine but disconnected.

• I have a second MB with an 120MHz CPU and more RAM

• Pentium 133, 32MB RAM, 1.34GB HDD - English keyboard

• Internal CD-ROM - working, boot have cannot boot with UBCD?

• Windows 98 SE

• Audio: OP3-SA3. Sound Blaster Pro compatible.

  • Left speaker don't work. External output works fine in both speakers.

• Video: C&T F65554 with 2MB - DirectX 3.0?

  • 800x600x256K colors native resolution on TFT

  • 1024x768 x 64K and 1280x1024 at 256 colors external

• Main battery takes charge. 

• USB with universal USB driver.

• More specs. 

• Sold for 1490,- on Finn.no

• Working. But has a bad SID chip - noise channel is missing.

• Assy no. 250425

• Only SID and the 901226/Basic ROM is socketed.

• Corrosion damages - a lot. Have used vinegar to stop the corrosion process.

• Have two extra MB, but need to be modified to fit.

• Have several extras CPU/Memory/VGA cards.

• 3,5" Floppy - Not tested

• 5 1/4" Floppy - Not tested ok

• 486DX4 Mobile 75MHz ?

• Powers on and display welcome screen

• No PSU

• Intel 386SX -16 MHz  + 387 Math Co Processor

• 1MB RAM

• 40MB HDD (C:38MB and D:8MB)

• 1,44MB Floppy Drive.

• Windows 3.1

• One 16Bit ISA slot - free.

• PS/2 Mouse port, 9 Pin RS232, Parallel Port and External VGA port.

Faulty power supply. Using a Universal PSU for now. Consider to replace the inside electronics with a universal PSU - it fits. Universal PSU did not work either when trying at 25.07.2023

• Retr0Bright'ed

• More pictures

• Works

• Double Density floppy

• Have changed one of the Rifa filter capacitors

• 80 characters

• Composite output

• 128 Aschii characters

• on/off switch

Not tested

• Clean and Retr0Bright'ed 

• I was unlucky with the H2O2 on the brown keys.   

• Works - can load from Tape

• More information. 

• MZF2WAV

• 48KB RAM

• New keyboard membrane

• 4" CRT B/W monitor

• Printer - also works fine

• Two Microdrives. Had to replace Voltage regulator 7805 on one of them.

• AGF programmable Joystick interface

• DCP Bus Expansion

• HB/2090 Interface Prototype Kit

• HB/2002/S  Spectrum Address Decoder Kit

• Lots of software on Datasette 

• Lots of books

• Everything neatly mounted on a suitcase for portability. Was used to control PLS for brewing beer.

• In original packaging

• Does not work. Faulty VIC and probably also the PLA chip.

• Working SID

• 256 KB RAM

• MDA for displaying non graphics.

• 360KB Floppy

• 20MB HDD

• MDA Monitor

• Came with a Photodiode card. Removed now.

The challenge with both my 5160 was the harddrive. They did not spinn at all. After removing and cleaning and oiling (wd40) them i got them to spin by helping the wheel to turn. After that they worked fine. No bad blocks.

• 256KB RAM

• MDA for displaying non graphics.

• 360KB Floppy

• 20MB HDD

• MDA Monitor

• Came with Novix and a clock card. Removed to save power. The clock card did not work.

• 256KB RAM on Motherboard

• 20MB HDD - Half height - Many bad sectors.

• 360KB Floppy drive - Full height

• MDA display adapter

• Wikipedia

• It works fine with my Sdrive 1564 - SD2IEC

• Added heatsinks

• Upgraded to 64 KB RAM with this kit. 

• Has no CPU at the moment. Considering installing a MOS 6510 instead. 

• Not working -  after modem card was inserted (yes same modem)

• No ram

• Switch settings

• It was one of the earliest IBM PC compatible computers

• Made by Corona Data Systems - later renamed Cordata

• The machine turn on, but only displays the letter "D"

• Complete with keyboard, floppy and hdd.

• My videos of the machine

• Manual for the Corona

• Romdump

• Motherboard settings and configuration

• Monitor tech spec

• Corona DOS 2.11 can be found at WinWorld

Overhalt og renset. Alt virker. Z80 - 4MHz - 64KB RAM, 32KB VRAM, 8KB ROM TIKOS og CP/M 86 1 stk. 5 1/4" Floppy 2 bokser med Tiki disketter. Harddisk emulator som tar SD kort. Følger med SD kort med mye programmer og spill. Her er en video om Tiki 100 og harddisk emulering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ZQ6S5kyk4&t=10s Det er også mulig å bruke Gotek (floppy emulator) 

• Wiki

• Cleaned and Retr0Bright'ed (se further down for details)

• Install SwinSID since the original SID was faulty. Has to replace the SwinSID with original because the mouse did not work, and some C128 demos did not have correct sound.

• Floppy was not working - replaced R65C22P2

• Have replaced missing keys on keyboard

• Used my own CGA to SCART cable. Gives all 16 colours. Se here for details

• Using external drive og SD2IEC on a C128D is not easy due to the built inn floppy who is ID8. I found a program that swapped ID 8 and 9. I have to run this program every time, so it is not an optimal solution. Using a 128D is usually more trouble then using a C64.

• Disabled the internal floppy drive, because it conflicts with the SD2IEC. 

• • Rare model with built-in 3" floppy. Produced for six months in 1985.

  • Lots of floppy games.

  • Replaced the floppy drive belt. The old was stuck around the wheel. 

  • Successfully connected it to an external Gotek.

• Motorola 68000 - 8Mhz

• 1 MB RAM

• 20 MB HDD - external

• 800KB Floppy Drive - works after cleaning and oiling

• 4,77Mhz and 8 Mhz

• 640KB RAM

• Segate ST225 MFM HDD - Lots of bad sectors.

• Work with XT-IDE

• 8/16Bits ATI VGA

• 360KB Floppy drive

• 1 Serial port and 2 paralell port, 1 game port.

• RTC not saving time. Have replaced battery.

• MFM Controller with manual

• Floppy controller

• One bad Tantalum 50V22UF capacitor on ISA slot 3 - at clock/game/parallell port card

• Installed heatsinks and a new CIA chip, because i destroyed the old...

• The new motherboard versjon

• New cooling paste

• Replaced bad colour RAM

• Won't boot. 

• Bad PSU

• Has tried with another PSU. maschine does not start, but make noises. No picture.

• SCSI HDD - Don't know status.

• 800KB Floppy - Don't know status.

• Considering selling for parts.

• IBM DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.0

• Intel 80286 - 10MHz

• DRAM  30 pin 150ns parity check - 4x256KB = 1MB.

• MCA Memory expansion card with 4MB RAM

• MCA slots

• ESDI   Harddisk - 73MB works fine. Makes a soothing sound when used.

• VGA

• 3,5" Floppy Drive Not working. Using spare for running reference disk.

1. I have replaced the battery with a Energizer CR223

2. Replaced bad RAM

• EuroPC, 8088, 9,59MHz, 512MB RAM.

• 3,5" 720KB Floppy Drive - Not working.

• Damaged from battery leakage. 

• No pictures on screen.

• Monitor, psu and keyboard works - testet on other machines.

To do:

1. Fix

• Nec V30 CPU, 8 MHz, 

• MS-DOS 3.3

• CGA / MDA 

• 2 x 3,5" 720Kb Floppy

• Run on 10 C-size alkaline batteries. (10 x 1.5v = 15 volts)

1. Test if pin 7 on the video out gives composite video!

• • Intel 80386 - 16MHz - MCA, 57MB HDD, 4 MB RAM 

  • ESDI Original Harddrive with 930KB of bad sectors

  • 3,5" 1,44MB Floppy Drive.

  • PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse, VGA, LPT1 and RS232

• Motorola 680030 - 16MHz

• 80MB SCSI HDD

• 8 MB RAM

• HD (Superdrive)  Floppy

• Intel 80386SX-16MHz 

• 5MB - 30Pins SIMM

• 16bit and 8bit ISA slot.

• NIC in one ISA slot.

• VGA / LPT1 / 2x RS232 / DIN Keyboard

• 3,5" Floppy Drive

• Gas Plasma - 640x480 / Red/Black - Cracked - External output works.

• Manual

• Starts and displays BIOS on external monitor. Internal HDD does not spinn-up. HDD light on.

• Consider changing HDD (maybe the one from T5200). Consider XT-IDE. Consider replacing screen with new colour TFT. 

• Atari Mega 4

  • Viking graphics card

• Megafile 30 - ok controller, bad mfm hdd

• Megafile 44

• SM124 monitor

• SM194 monitor

• Calamus Desktop Publishing software

• Intel 80C286 - 12Mhz,  40MB HDD, 

•  3,5" 1.44MB Floppy

• Vogons project page

• Video can be switched to an external VGA color monitor with the press of  ctrl+alt+< keys. 

1. Fix Dallas clock chip.

2. Consider to use replace HDD with IDE2CF adapter.

• Pentium Overdrive @ 84Mhz - Originally 486dx, 16MB RAM 

  • 486sx33

• Compact Flash - 4GB (2 partitions)

• ISA16 VGA - CL-GD5420

• Dos 6.22 and 4DOS 4.02

• Sound Blaster 16 pnp

• YouTube video

• MB diagram and jumper settings.

• Service Manual. 

• VGA card

• 512KB RAM

• Location: DECpc LPx 433

• Motorola 68030 - 32Mhz

• 5 MB RAM

• 200 MB HDD

• Lacks the caddy for CD-ROM

• Recapped at RetroService

• 2MB RAM + 2MB SRAM (PCMCIA)

• Compact Flash with 4GB WHD-Load Games

•  Sold August 2018 for NOK 1000,-

• • Intel 80286 - 10MHz - 8/16bit ISA (NOT MCA)

  • 512 MB RAM - 30MB HDD

  • IBM DOS 4.00

  • 3,5" 1,44MB Floppy Drive.

  • PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse, VGA, LPT1 and RS232

  • Lacks front cover for Floppy and HDD

  • With fixed Dallas chip not with CR2032

• Pentium 120Mhz - 16MB RAM CF - 2GB?

• Freedos 1.1 

• CD-ROM / RS232 / LPT1  / PC-CARD / VGA / PS2 for keyboard or Mouse

• ESS Technologies ESS688 & Yamaha OPL3 (YMF262) 

  • Sound Blaster Pro (3.01 )

  • Runs most demos

• 800x600 Native resolution on TFT

• External Docking station. and External Floppy (not working)

• Update: 14.February 2020. Does not power up. The light comes on, but screen is dead. CD-ROM flashes three times. No HDD light.

• Maintenance manual her.

• More about the machine her.

• Pentium 133Mhz, 32 MB (EDO), 2 GB HDD - Intel Triton 430TX

• MSDOS 6.22 with Windows 3.11 and Windows 95

• 3,5" Floppy and CD-ROM (20x)

• SB Pro (3.01) - 220h, IRQ 5 and DMA 0 and WSS on port 530 and AdLib

• 2 x USB Ports

• Serial and parallel port, External Keyboard

• SVGA and Composite out

  • Chips&Tech F65554 (HiQV64) - 2MB

  • 800x600 Native resolution on TFT

  • VESA 2.0

• In original bag

• With a portable HP Deskjet 340 with battery

• Pentium II - 233Mhz, 64MB RAM, 3 Gb HDD, 64Mb RAM

• Sound Blaster AWE 64  Value - 512Kb RAM - ct4520

  • Running AWE Gold driver CD installation.

• ATI Rage 128 (AGP) and Voodoo 2 (PCI)

• 2 ISA slots. and 5 PCI slots.

• 3,5" 1,44MB and 5 1/4"  1.2 MB Floppy drives

• Card Reader 

• UltraSPARC 11i - 300Mhz, 256MB RAM

• Solaris 7 - Have original CD and manuals.

• IDE Controller

1. Fix Dallas battery

2. Find and try some games

3. I made this video of my Sun Ultra 10 Creators 3D Edition. 

• Pentium IIIE - 750MHZ, 385 MB RAM, 18GB HDD

• S3 Savage IX8+ video controller with 8MB  - AGP2X

• More information here

• Installed with Windows 98 UBCD

• CrystalClear SoundFusion

  • Supports SB Pro (3.02)  220h, IRQ 5, DMA 1. Setting can not be changed. 

  • Supports Adlib from DOS. OK, but a plays to fast. AdLib sounds better then SB.

  • Must have CWCDOS.EXE to support FM/OPL and DSP in DOS

• It supports SB and Adlib in Windows 98SE, plus General Midi. The General Midi from Windows is very good.

• Must use old audio drivers to get DOS support.  The newer version adds DirectX 8 support, but removes DOS drivers and SB compatibility in Windows.

• All in all this is an OK machine for DOS gaming. 

  • Minus for the poor OPL (adlib/SB) support.

  • Plus for a good screen with hardware scales 320x200 games to fullscreen.

  • The best way to play DOS games on this machine is from Windows because you General Midi support, and therefor do not rely on the bad OPL implementation.

  • Demos usually do not use MIDI/OPL so they run best from DOS.

• Very good for Windows 98 gaming - because it has an S3 Savage with 8MB ram. Good for DirectX games.

• Have replaced the Clock battery

• Sold the Loddefjord XBOX

• 8GB HDD

• Executor 2 mod

• Pentium III - 750MHz - 256 MB RAM - CD-Rom - 64GB CF Card

• Windows 98 SE

• USB / LPT1 / RS232 / PC-CARD / VGA /LAN / 56 Kbps 

• Sound Blaster Pro Compatible in Windows 98 - General Midi P330

  • Runs Doom with General Midi and SB Pro effects

• 12,1" TFT - 1024x768 24bit, AGP2x, 4MB SDRAM

• 512MB RAM, 

• 120GB Maxtor HDD ATA133

• Windows 98SE 

• Asus A7N8X MB 

• USB / LPT1 / RS232 / MIDI / GAME PORT / LAN / PS2 Keyboard and Mouse

• AGP Radeon 9600 VGA, DVI and S-VHS out

• DVD player and Plextor CDR

• 3,5" Floppy Drive

• Sound Blaster 16/Pro compatible in Windows 98. MIDI has to be disabled in BIOS!

  • Excellent sound quality - no noice. 

• I tried to get my 5 1/4" 360KB floppy to work in this machine. And it did, but only when i removed the 3,5" floppy drive. So i decided to put the 360KB in my TCI PC

• Fantastic machine for retro gaming. Incredible fast - and still full Win98SE and DOS game compatibility. My "Goto" machine for Windows98 gaming.

• C64 Compatible

• 30 built-in games

• Wikipedia

• Fixed the battery compartment cover

• Fixed broken wire

• Two joysticks

• In original box

• Yes - it is standing on a gold plate.

• Why? Because it gives my good feeling.  Just like the guy on the box cover.