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  - An odyssey with an 8bit Seagate SCSI controller ...
    03/25/14
    Not funny, but instructive.
    I've tried to add a bigger SCSI drive to my PC/XT system, which uses a Seagate ST-02 controller. At the moment, it runs well with a small Conner 3040 HDD (= 40MB), but I liked to have a bit more HDD capacity.
    So I obtained a Seagate ST51080N, which has in f
  - All time TOP DOS Games (1982-1993)
    03/16/14
    Excuse my conversion to a picture, but simplephpblog does not support tables.
    
    Introduction of VGA in April 1987 changed all, so my list seems to be less complete from 1988 towards...
  - Windows Chicago Alpha / Pre-Beta Boot Screen and other...
    03/12/14
    Take a look at
    http://monkey-hole.co.uk/esa/os/
    for very early beta versions of Windows, there are even virtual machines (for Microsoft Virtual PC) to try something strange like Berkeley 2.11 BSD.
    A bit simple/poor boot screen also for Windows Chicago Build 73, although it's very
  - Different Floppy Drive widths ? What did IBM wrong ? Or others ?
    03/09/14
    Original 5.25" floppy drives in IBM PC or IBM PC/XTs are less wide than later selled floppy drives from other vendors (like TEAC or EPSON), that means 145mm from IBM, 147mm from others. And so 3.5" drive adapters are also too wide.
    I was trying to add a second 3.5" floppy drive,
  - IBM PC/XT building site ... replacing cards and drive
    03/02/14
    After recognizing many errors while reading and writing files on my MFM hard disk drive, I decided to exchange my hard disk drive with a SCSI one.
    This resulted in a longer search for an appropriate 8-bit ISA bus SCSI controller, my favorites were Future Domain TMC-850 and Seagate ST-02. I was
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