Alright! 5150 is there a difference between those sold within

>>57415022
The US ones need 110V

>>57415048
>The US ones need 110V
Ah, That could be a problem.

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>>57415073

Just get a stepdown transformer.
I did the same for my printer.

>>57415123
Any other problems that i may encounter beyond power? because i don't know if they change shit for different countries.

>>57415123

What do you use that computer to do?

>>57415535
>What do you use that computer to do?
NOT OP.

What else? Games. Programming and waiting for your mail order upgrades.

>>57415514

No, that's all, the stepdown will adjust the frequency too.

Any peripherals you plug in via parallel or serial will work just fine.

>>57415535

IRC and bulletinboards.

>>57415614
>No, that's all, the stepdown will adjust the frequency too.
Sweet.

>>57415022
your biggest problem will be shipping to Australia.

>>57415535
Same as all other retroshit, the only thing that you CAN do with it. jerk off

>>57415882
>jerk off
Yeah. Nah.

>>57415614
>IRC and bulletinboards.

Got a screenshot? I'd love to see.

Also.. how do you bulletinboards in CLI??

>>57415951

Zoom into the image I posted, I'm logged into fozztexx's BBS.

Its pretty straightforward to use, there are hotkeys for different functions like post search or making a reply.

>>57415882
>computer before my i7 where made only to jerk off at

>>57416006
the only porn you'll be reading is either images turn to text or text.

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>>57416023
We weren't talking about pr0n anon.

Also, ASCII pr0n

>>57415981
That's pretty cool, I didn't think you literally meant BBS i thought you were talking about www message boards

>>57415123
b-but that's an AT

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>>57416023
>he doesn't have a Hercules card

>>57415514
If you want to connect an RGB TV to CGA there might be problems

>>57415022
>is there a difference between those sold within the US and Australia?
no, recycles accept both

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>>57416138

kekked.

>>57416674
Noice

>>57416055
Topkek
>inb4 acsii boner

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>>57416223
The problem wouldn't be RGB, since CGA has an NTSC composite output. Most modern TVs accept both PAL and NTSC though, so the format shouldn't matter.

>>57418965
an XT does not have CGA anyways out of the box

>>57418965
Nice machine, more?

>>57419102
I don't have many pictures on hand but I can tell you the specs:
10MHz NEC V20
640K ram
Some generic XT clone motherboard
20MB Tandon HD
Chips & Technologies EGA card w/ 256K ram
Sound Blaster 16 (The only card I had with an OPL chip)
MS-DOS 5
The PSU, HDD and floppy controller are original, the rest of the parts were changed by the previous owner. I can't really complain, I paid €10 for the computer and the monitor.

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>>57419172
Woop, epic.

I have a XT clone with almost the same specs, same EGA card, with a 10MHz NEC V20 too, but clocked at 4.77MHz, also 20MB MFM drive, I did try to change the crystal, even socketed it, but can't change the clock without doing a whole separate clock generator for the CPU because the memory and ISA slots are from the same crystal. Also have a 8087 FPU and Etherlink III RJ45 ethernet.
For some reason 512KB of RAM, even when counting the chips on the motherboard and doing the math I should have 1024KB.

Just today I bought a SB16 for it (just happened to come across one, else I would have gotten a SB1.5 or 2 off eBay), CT1750, it's still in mail, you don't need diagnose.exe for it, right? Just set the right BLASTER environment and jumpers? What IRQ are you running it on?

>>57419325
>8087 FPU and Etherlink III RJ45 ethernet
I'm jelly
>you don't need diagnose.exe
You don't need it even if you have a PnP card. My SB16 is a Vibra PnP (an early one with a separate OPL3 chip) and I only needed to add the PnP configuration utility to autoexec.bat. It only uses 80186 instructions, so it works perfectly on the V20. That vogons thread is really misleading. Diagnose does crash the system after detecting the card, though.

So yeah, you'll only need to set the jumpers and the BLASTER variable. Maybe you'll need to run the software mixer to get a decent level from the line out.

>What IRQ are you running it on?
I'm running it on IRQ7, since it's the only one I had left.

>>57419481
>I'm jelly
Getting them from eBay won't set you back even 30€.
You might also want to get a CD bay cover and cut out the floppy drive hole, that's what I did.

>You don't need it even if you have a PnP card....
Thanks for the info, I'm looking forward to it.

>>57419481
>Maybe you'll need to run the software mixer to get a decent level from the line out.
Probably not even that, because the CT1750 has a variable resistor volume control on the back.

>>57415535
whore it on the internet

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>>57416138

>>57422106
hercules didn't have artifacts like that unless you did something like CGA emulation

>>57415048
there's a switch on the power supply for 220v & 110v. it's just a different set of taps off the transformer.

>>57424441
are you sure the XT had that?

>>57424673
how shit would it have to be to not have it?

>>57424923

It doesn't have a switch, IBM just had a different power supply for each region.

>>57416674
>tank mouse
>not original 600/1200 mouse

>>57424435
that's just dithering

fine patterns would have blended together when viewed on a small color CRT at that high a resolution

>>57426012
>viewed on a small color CRT at that high a resolution
but Hercules was monochrome and CGA was quite low res

>>57419538
>won't set you back even 30€.
Wasting 30 bucks on some retro shit?

>>57426695
Oh, you don't spend money on your hobbies?

>>57426695
are you really that poor?

>>57429253
not wanting to waste money =! poor

>>57429748
if it's something you enjoy then it's not a waste of money

and if you consider $30 an apocalyptic waste then yeah you're pretty poor, consider getting a job instead of wasting time here crying about people who are interested in something other than upvoting your battlestation

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>>57416138
>>57422106