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Ordered parts for two more PicoGUS which arrived today! Figured as I had three blank PCBs might as well make a couple more with one going to a friend for their retro DOS 6.22 build.

Blank PicoGUS PCBs and needed parts for assembly

Time to cut v1.5. The sides are now cut from the empty space inside of the holding "squares" to reduce waste.

Well I ordered a "Toshiba T1000 Laptop Computer" off the normal auction site listed as "for parts/repair". Had to pull the trigger on it as it has EVERYTHING included, even the original manual/software and carrying case!

Now I feel I should do a retro laptop repair/demo stream...

Needed some more 3.5 in floppy holders and decided a new design was needed. This holds 10x 3.5 in floppies.

#retrocomputing
#lasercutting
#making

10x 3.5in floppy holder cut out of 3mm MDF

And its installed! Now to load all the additional software and play around with the OS.

#retrocomputing
#vintagecomputing
#UNIX

atB: ncyl=7964 nhead=16 wpcc=65535 eccl=0 ctrl=8 landc=7964 nspt=63

xx% COHERENT Version 4.2.18 - 386 Mode. 12168KB free memory. ssx

Color. NDP=486. 4528 huffers. 4523 buckets. 64 clists.

416KB kalloc pool. @ KB phys pool.

Intel/AMD CPU Detected

Copyright 1982, 1994 Mark Williams Company

Serial Numher 532319371

Checking filesystems...

LT

3581 files 28398 hlocks 550068 free

Going multiuser...

Coherent 386 login: xenenic

Welcome to the system, xemenic. Since this is your first login to Coherent 4.2, here are some quick hints; if you have mail waiting, you can read it simply by typing "mail". To get gquick help on a command, use "help <command>’, or use "man <command>’ to get detailed instructions.

1T TR O

The system Message Of The Day is displayed each time a user logs in.

To change this message, edit s/etc/motd.

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Things appear to be going smoothly as its booted from disk to complete the install.

#retrocomputing
#vintagecomputing
#UNIX

Using INT Ox41 drive B parameters 8c atB: ncyl=7964 nhead=16 wpcc=65535 eccl=0 ctrl=8 landc=7964 nspt=63

xx% COHERENT Version 4.2.18 - 386 Mode. 12148KB free memory. ssx

Color. NDP=486. 4528 huffers. 4523 huckets. 64 clists,

416KB kalloc pool. @ KB phys pool.

Intel/AMD CPU Detected

Copyright 1982, 1994 Mark Williams Company

Insert disk 2 into the drive and hit <Enter>. _

AMIBIOS System Configuration (C) 1985-1991, American Megatrends Inc., Main Processor . 1BM 4863LCZ Base Memory Size @ 640 KB Numeric Processor ' Present Ext. Memory Size : 14976 KB Floppy Drive A: : 1.44 MB, 34" Hard Disk C: Type : 47 Floppy Drive B: ST TN | VA Hard Disk D: Type : None Display Type . UGA/PGA/EGA S EY I LI AEY) : 3r8,ZE8 G0 LR R A Y41 YS VA Parallel Port(s) : 378

128K CACHE MEMORY

GV SRR

Drive O

Drive 1 can’t he read

SIS (TR A EI S RS i) NI R

Drive 8

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COHERENT Tertiary hoot Version 1.2.7 Press <SPACE> to ahort hoot.

Working to see if I can get "Coherent Unix 4.2.10" working on my "Alaris LEOPARD 486SLC2".

#retrocomputing
#vintagecomputing
#UNIX

The COHERENT System Copyright (c) 1982, 1993 hy Mark Williams Company 68 Revere Drive, Northbrook, IL 68062 788-291-6708, ?88-291-6758 (FAX) Hit <Enter> to continue... _

1. AT-compatihle hard drive controller (IDE/RLL/MFM/ESDI).

2. SCST hard drive controller.

K (114 |8

Enter your choice: 1

Most AT-compatible controllers work with NORMAL polling.

Perstor controllers and some IDE hard drives require ALTERNATE polling. If you get "<Watchdog Timeout>" or “at@:T0" errors with normal polling, use alternate polling.

Use NORMAL polling [y or nl?7 y

NORMAL polling will he used.

Enter number of non-5CSI hard drives: 1

fire you installing on an IBM PS1 or ValuePoint? [y or nl? n

Ualue assigned: ATSREG=BxBOO0O3f6

Value assigned: f1_dsk_ch_proh=0xB0000000

Using INT Ox41 drive @ parameters

atB: ncyl=7964 nhead=16 wpcc=65535 eccl=0 ctrl=8 landc=7964 nspt=63 Device atcon attached at major numher 11

Hit <Enter> to continue... _

Another "Magnavox Professional Metalis SX-20" popped up on my eBay filter for cheap... So I ordered it in the hopes of it having a working screen so I can combine it with the one I currently own to make one good working example. Well see about streaming the process once I get the 2nd laptop.

@mos_8502 Bootstrap the SSD from another system?

For #StarTrekDay I've started re-watching 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'. Anyone else feel like the first half of the first season is a bit hard to get through?

#StarTrek

@attie I normally use yellow/blue as its easier for me to remember. Yellow being the "hot" tx and blue being the "cold" rx, but I'm probably strange in that regard.

Used the boards I keep in local storage to test out the PicoGUS and created a new GitHub issue to get them added to the compatibility wiki.

https://github.com/polpo/picogus/issues/13

After solving 3 super tiny solder bridges I have joined the #PicoGUS club with 2x cards!

PS: Ignore the outdated firmware version as I was testing the in place firmware upgrades.

Great project @polpo!
https://github.com/polpo/picogus

#RaspberryPiPico
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

$Uerifying DMI Pool Data ....... Starting MS-DOS... HIMEM is testing extended memory...done. C:\>SET ULTRASND=240,3,3,7,7 C:N\>SET ULTRADIR=C:\ULTRASND C:\>C:\DOSNSMARTDRU.EXE /X C:\>pgusinit PicoGUSinit v1.2.1 (c) 2023 Ian Scott - licensed under the GNU GPL w2 PicoGUS detected: Firmware version: picogus-gus v0.6.1 GUS-like card detected on port 240... Audio buffer size set to 4 samples DMA interval set to default behavior Running in GUS mode on port 240 PicoGUS initialized! Y$