Hi,
I have a cad system (Altium), which can convert some formats, maybe
I could convert EAGLE files.
But, if you tell me, how the final board should be, and its not so
much work, I can do it for you and you get Gerber files, which are
accepted by most of the PCB manufactures.
Cheers
Gerhard
Barbie PC's are VERY expandable. They have 4 USB ports (at least the one
I have does), so you can easily put a USB hub on there to have even more
ports.
I've put USB wiireless adapters, USB NIC adapters on my sisters.
I've put a 512mb RAM DIMM in it, and put a better CD-ROM drive in it.
It came with Windows 98, but runs fine on Windows XP Home or Pro.
It's not a top end box at all, but can be a nice Internet/Wordprocessing
computer.
There was also a Hot Wheels Computer which had a Blue and Yellow case
with Flame stickers on it.
Changing out the battery is no big deal. I just did that for my sisters
unit.
They are old and slow, but I'm sure there are lots of uses for them.
Al
I was at my local scrapper recently and ran across a number of manuals
for the IBM Grelystone Display Station in the dumpster:
Maintenance Analysis Procedures
Greystone Parts Catalog
Maintenance Information Manual
If anyone has interest, they are available for postage.
CRC
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:11 PM, <Hollandia at ccountry.net> wrote:
> One of my machines is an old Packard-Bell Legend 610 machine, to which I am
> trying to fit a second hard drive.
>
> The machine will not recognize any modern (or semi-modern) hard drive I have
> attempted to fit. I have tried various master/slave combinations, to no avail.
>
> My guess is that this is due to the BIOS being of am early type. The BIOS
> chip is a socketed DIP package and the lettering on it is too faded to read.
> The screen boot-up display is this:
>
> PhoenixBIOS(TM) A486 Version 1.01
> PB400 OPTI 486WB
> Reference ID 08
>
> Is this a reasonable guess?
>
> If so, what might be done by way of a BIOS upgrade?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kurt
>
>
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If after all the good advice here you still haven't got it working, this is the sort
of issue that's pretty commonly discussed and solved on the Vintage Computer
Forum which deals largely with old PC problems. Might be worth a look.
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/index.php
m
I have 8 EPROMS in carriers, some MCM68764C and some MCM68766C. I
believe they go with the Panasonic HHC but I'm not sure. In any case,
I don't have an HHC anymore so I don't need them. Anyone interested?
Send me your mailing address off-list and I'll send them to you.
The barn cleanup continues. I found a box of data books that date
back to my first EE job (early 1980's). See picture for titles.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=x51mkl&s=4
Please contact me off-list if interested in some or all.
There are more data books buried in those piles of ancient boxes,
too... will post as I uncover them.
thanks
Charles
