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Stan Veit's Death

I have not read any of Stan's articlesm but read this. It is better to leave the world a better...

Stan Veit's Death

Of all the histories I've read of the early days of personal computers, I find Stan Veit's articles...

Stan Veit's Death

Passing at 90 surrounded by friends and family with a lifetime of achievements is a pretty good way...

Stan Veit's Death

C64 Disk Drive not detected

Help! I bought a Commodore 64 with a data set and a disk drive. I first used the disk drive and all went well. I used the Flight Simulator program for months with no problems. But then I got some...

The 486 was the mainstream PC in DOS 6's day...

The 486 was the mainstream PC in DOS 6's day (whether we're talking 6, 6.2, 6.22) so I'd go with a variant of that. The biggest problem in DOS 6 was Doublespace, which you won't be using, so the...

Small boost for sure, but for my purposes, the...

Small boost for sure, but for my purposes, the V20 is head and shoulders more noticeable boost than a math co-processor. Have never seen any difference between my machines that do and do not have a...

Rather than doing such an intrusive modification...

Rather than doing such an intrusive modification to the T/S 1016, a 1.5x2.5 inch board with the edge connector on a short ribbon cable and a point to point wired 32K SRAM pulled from a 486 cache...

Prefered Dos varient for a 486

I'm on the hunt for another 486 which will be pushed into service purely for Dos use and testing purposes. What do other members recommend?

I think you're missing the point. Use and...

I think you're missing the point. Use and configure the pc for what it is. Explore the software of the era, the good studf and the failed off-shoots. It will give you a better perspective. That's...