Vintage Computers

Daruk said:
Jammer @jannievanzyl for the thread hijack, but I thought this would be as good a place as any to ask if anyone knew where I can get a vintage telkom payphone if such a thing still exists. It needn't be uber vintage, 70s, 80s is fine - just not the newer card types... the rotary dial type is what I'd love to get my hands on. Ta!
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This is probably not a bad place to ask. Are you just looking for the phone or the whole telephone booth?
Maybe post a sample pic?
I’ll ask on the vintage computers groups but you can probably also ask on other vintage collector groups on social media. Even if it’s a car group, it’ll be the right type of audience.
 
Check this great emulator for old school dos games:
http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/

Running DOS games has never been easier...

D-Fend Reloaded is a graphical environment for DOSBox. DOSBox emulates a complete computer including the DOS commandline and allows to run nearly all old DOS based games on modern hardware with any of the newer Windows versions.
 
Daruk said:
Jammer @jannievanzyl for the thread hijack, but I thought this would be as good a place as any to ask if anyone knew where I can get a vintage telkom payphone if such a thing still exists. It needn't be uber vintage, 70s, 80s is fine - just not the newer card types... the rotary dial type is what I'd love to get my hands on. Ta!
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If anyone can help you, it is probably this guy: https://www.facebook.com/Alshebrugar/
 
Speaking of 1.44Mb stiffies - some electronics genius should be able to make a FDD/USB converter where you can use an USB stick instead of a stiffy...
Said interface should be able to let you choose from which stiffy image you want to use as you can have a couple stored on the USB stick/USB HDD, and run some sort of emulator software to fool the PC in thinking it is reading from a stiffy disk.

It does not make sense to use an 8Gb/16Gb/32Gb stick just to host a single 1.44Mb image.
 
The_Librarian said:
Speaking of 1.44Mb stiffies - some electronics genius should be able to make a FDD/USB converter where you can use an USB stick instead of a stiffy...
Said interface should be able to let you choose from which stiffy image you want to use as you can have a couple stored on the USB stick/USB HDD, and run some sort of emulator software to fool the PC in thinking it is reading from a stiffy disk.

It does not make sense to use an 8Gb/16Gb/32Gb stick just to host a single 1.44Mb image.
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That already exists. Damned if I can remember what it's called. You'll find it on Vogons, if I had the time at the mo I'd search myself.
 
The_Librarian said:
Speaking of 1.44Mb stiffies - some electronics genius should be able to make a FDD/USB converter where you can use an USB stick instead of a stiffy...
Said interface should be able to let you choose from which stiffy image you want to use as you can have a couple stored on the USB stick/USB HDD, and run some sort of emulator software to fool the PC in thinking it is reading from a stiffy disk.

It does not make sense to use an 8Gb/16Gb/32Gb stick just to host a single 1.44Mb image.
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You get these SD-based disk drive (and casette) emulators for nearly every vintage computer, be it Commodore, Atari, IBM PC, etc.

Gotek is one that emulates floppy or stiffy drives across many different systems:
nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com

The Gotek Floppy Drive Emulator in the IBM PC World

Vintage computers and retro gaming
nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com
 
unwind said:
Bit late for you but I bought a packet earlier this year at our local Spar! One of the old injection moulding machines we used at a factory needed them and what a lucky find they were!
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We got an injection moulding machine with a USB interface. Inside is an adapter from USB to a stiffy drive (seems like they still ran the old electronics). Looks like these converters are standard industrial items.
 
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