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Wyse 2112-40 286 Revival Project

Nix McRetro // 21st November 2012 // Categories: Hacks, IBM PC, Repairs

This machine was originally earmarked to be stripped for parts. Then curiosity got the better of me, and I spent the next couple of days trying to get it back into a workable state. It’s a Wyse 2112-40 with a 12.5 MHz 80286, a 40 MB hard drive and an... Continue reading

NEC FD1157C: More Floppy Drive Fault Finding

Nix McRetro // 19th November 2012 // Categories: IBM PC, Reconstructed, YouTube

Never give up on your dreams, they said! Well, here I am again with the troublesome NEC FD1157C 1.2 MB floppy drive. Cleaning it hasn’t exactly produced a miraculous recovery, and the computer is still throwing all sorts of errors whenever I try to read a disk. Not ready, sector... Continue reading

Sega TeraDrive Model 2 with XTIDE Card Demo

Nix McRetro // 18th November 2012 // Categories: IBM PC, Repairs, Sega

Here’s a quick demonstration of the Sega TeraDrive Model 2 running from an XTIDE card and a 4 GB Disk on Module. After all the other videos I’ve made on this subject, I thought I’d record something a little shorter so you don’t have to sit through eight hours of... Continue reading

Sega TeraDrive Model 3 with XTIDE Installed

Nix McRetro // 18th November 2012 // Categories: IBM PC, Repairs, Sega

With the XTIDE card working nicely in my Sega TeraDrive Model 2, I figured it was time to give the Model 3 a go as well. I’d copied the BIOS configuration across to my second XTIDE card, so perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised when it started working. Still, I... Continue reading

Miscellaneous ISA and PCI Cards

Nix McRetro // 18th November 2012 // Categories: IBM PC, YouTube

A welcome break from all the TeraDrive posts I’ve been putting up over the past few days. I seem to have accumulated enough ISA and PCI cards to form a small army, although there’s one slight problem. I don’t think I’ve got enough computers to put them all in! Mind... Continue reading