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Окончание (?) эпопеи с апгрейдом #iPodClassic4
Берём адаптер 2x microSD → #CompactFlash и заправляем картами по 64gb, ставим в переходник и грузим вместо штатного #hdd в #iPod …

#upgrade #retrocomputing

Не стал париться с переходниками, сделал проще: купил на #avito #CompactFlash 32mb за 201 рубль
Разбился на 4 диска по 8 мб. Какой-то негуманно огромный кусок выделяет #Newton под заголовок!

видели бы вы курицу на выдаче, это пздц

#newtonPDA

Нас ждут дальнейшие приключения, возможно успешные: приехал адаптер #CompactFlash → #PCMCIA
Жаль, что у #eMate300 только один слот: или #WiFi, или flash 😩
На крайний случай в хозяйстве есть ещё два ноутбука с #PCcard

#newtonPDA #retrocomputing

Blog post signal boost for my latest T-shirt design: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/05/19/media-darling-t-shirt-design/

#minidisc #floppydisk #compactflash #sdcard #microsd

Следующая фаза апгрейда:
Поставил вместо штатного HD переходник на #CompactFlash, вот такой же
Пришёл с али, 1500 рэ

#iPod #iPodClassic4

Restoring an Amiga 1200 CF Card OS Image & Building a MicroSD Setu
#Amiga1200 #RetroComputing #WinUAE #CompactFlash #MicroSD #AmigaOS #CFCardRestore #DesertStormAmiga #VintageComputing
https://theoasisbbs.com/restoring-an-amiga-1200-cf-card-os-image-building-a-microsd-setu/?feed_id=2495&_unique_id=67e6a06659f99

Do it yourself: CompactFlash adapter AmigaCF for Amiga 600 and 1200

The CompactFlash adapter AmigaCF for the Amiga 600 and 1200 is connected to the internal IDE port not by cable like other variants, but is plugged directly into it instead. In addition, noises are made during access, as a substitute for those made when accessing a real 2.5" hard disk inside the computer:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-01-00077-EN.html

#Amiga #CompactFlash #adapter

I wanna get a SCSI controller for the 6309 project, and I'm looking at a 5380, the software control seems easy enough and it's pretty reasonable to hook up to a Motorola style bus.
I was considering IDE but SCSI seems much easier to interface to the bus. most IDE controllers expect an Intel bus (I wonder why) and that's a pain in the ass. I'm trying my best not to use Intel bus chips, just cause it would require a lot of support circuitry.
SCSI hard drives that are small enough (ideally under 100mb or so) are kinda pricey, about $50-100, but finding working IDE drives that old is hard too. I guess if I went IDE I could use a compact flash card but still. we will see.

#chibidev #hardware #scsi #ide #compactflash #motorola

#CompactFlash is a minefield - or else I've just got a veeeery cantankerous old machine. Using one of these cards in a CF-IDE adapter, I can #boot from a DOS #floppy and set the flag to mark the card as a fixed disk. Using the other, the machine won't even boot from floppy. Yet they look almost identical.

The front faces of two 4.0GB Sandisk Ultra II compact flash cards. They look almost identical.

The backs of the same two compact flash cards. They were manufactured a year apart.

AmigaKit anuncia el A1200NG ofialmente

Tras unos días de expectación y especulación, AmigaKit Ltd ha anunciado el A1200NG

Aunque mantiene el formato del original, el A1200NG no es un reemplazo para las placas del Amiga 1200, sino un sistema independiente que aprovecha la estética del clásico pero con hardware completamente renovado. Está diseñado para encajar en las carcasas originales o reproducidas del A1200, lo que permite a los usuarios disfrutar de un aspecto retro con prestaciones modernas.

El sistema está impulsado por un procesador ARM, acompañado de 4 GB de RAM y opciones de almacenamiento de 64 GB o 128 GB. Además, incorpora conectividad inalámbrica para internet y Bluetooth, facilitando el uso de periféricos modernos como teclados, mandos o altavoces.

El A1200NG mantiene la esencia del Amiga al ser compatible con disqueteras originales, permitiendo leer y escribir discos de 880 KB y 1,76 MB gracias a las tecnologías integradas Greaseweazle y DrawBridge. También incluye ranuras para tarjetas Compact Flash y puertos USB, lo que facilita la transferencia de datos y el acceso a software clásico y moderno.

Entre sus conectores destacan:

Puertos de joystick de 9 pines.
Puerto de disquetera.
Puerto serial de 25 pines.
Salida HDMI para video.
Conector para teclado original del Amiga 1200.

Además, es posible conectar teclados modernos mediante USB o Bluetooth, ofreciendo una flexibilidad total para los usuarios.

El A1200NG ejecuta el sistema operativo del A600GS, optimizado con nuevas características solicitadas por los usuarios. Incluye AmiBench, un entorno de escritorio en resolución 1080p con iconos en colores reales y soporte para la nueva biblioteca gráfica ARM, que mejora significativamente el rendimiento en la representación de ventanas e iconos.

El sistema también permite instalar otras versiones de sistemas operativos Amiga mediante particiones personalizadas.

La placa base del A1200NG está diseñada pensando en el futuro. Su CPU ARM es desmontable, lo que abre la posibilidad de futuras actualizaciones y expansiones. Esto asegura que el sistema pueda evolucionar con las necesidades de los usuarios y mantenerse relevante en el tiempo.

El A1200NG estará disponible para su entrega en el primer trimestre de 2025, y las preventas ya están abiertas en la página oficial del producto (www.a1200ng.com).

En lo personal, considero que es una solución que hace tiempo pensaba que debía existir.

#A1200NG #actualizaciónAmiga #AmiBench #amiga #Amiga1200 #amigakit #arm #Bluetooth #CommodoreAmiga #CompactFlash #comunidadRetro #diseñoModular #drawbridge #floppyDisk #gamingRetro #greaseweazle #HardwareRetro #HDMI #placaBase #retroComputing #SoftwareAmiga #tecnologíaModerna

Athens ID Drive Config Word Change utility ATCFWCHG.COM

#CompactFlash #RetroComputing

Is My CF card seen as Removable or Fixed Disk?

From http://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/cf_cards.php:

Basically the CF card must have the capability of identifying itself as a fixed disk instead of removable media. Without this, it won't be detected as a boot drive. You could still use the CF card, but only as a non-bootable second "hard disk". If you really need to use your CF card to boot from, there is a possible way around this:

An old utility that was originally provided by SanDisk, the originators of the Compact Flash interface, called ATCFWCHG.COM ("Athens Configuration Word Change") can be used to change the 'Type' bit of a CF card to 'Fixed Disk'. These days SanDisk won't provide you with this utility but it can be found for download at various places (try Google). An older version of this utility by SanDisk called NDCFWCHG (NAND Configuration Word Change) can work for cards older than Month 1, Year 2003 - check the date code stamped on the side of your CF card. It should something like "AR" + YYMM, such as AR0301.

You will need to boot DOS and run it with the CF configured as either the master on the primary IDE interface or the master on the secondary interface. It will not work if the drive is attached as a slave or to any other interfaces.

To set a SanDisk Extreme adapter attached to the primary IDE interface to Fixed disk

ATCFWCHG.COM /P /F

To set a SanDisk Extreme adapter attached to the secondary IDE interface (Ultrabay) to Fixed disk

ATCFWCHG.COM /S /F

I've been gifted a gorgeous #Sony #VAIO PCG N505X, introduced circa July 1999, which was originally bought for over €3,000. It still works beautifully!

The lid is very bashed around, though. Does anyone have any tips on how to clean that up? Is it even possible?

I plan to swap the hard drive for a #CompactFlash card, and I'll see if I can get a new battery for the machine. It comes complete with a dinky but sturdy carry case, a port replicator, charger, CDROM drive and a functioning 10/100 PCMCIA Ethernet card.

A close-up of the badly scuffed lid of the machine. The silvery-grey eggshell finish is densely packed with short scratches and scuffs.

A photo of the screen displaying the Windows 2000 Professional boot screen. I haven't seen that for a few years!

God I hated Microsoft back then, but despite that, I ran Windows 2000 on my main machine for a while until I switched to Linux in 2006.

I'm surprised by the happy feeling this screen gave me! Windows 2000 was a superb workstation OS for the time.

A view of the opened machine, from a typical operator's viewpoint. The machine is switched off.

A photo of the screen showing Internet Explorer 6 displaying frogfind.com.

I finally got a #CompactFlash to #IDE adapter working in my gorgeous and rugged #IBM #Thinkpad760CD from 1996! The IDE disk continues to work beautifully, but using CF gives me more options to quickly switch operating systems.

I'd ddrescued the IDE disk at various points along the way as I experimented with #MSDOS622, #Windows98 and finally most recently and most successfully, #WindowsNT4.

I wrote those images to CF cards but bloody hell I dunno how many times I faced the dreaded error 174 early in POST (which indicates "no hard disk detected") while trying out different Compact Flash cards and adapters.

I finally hit on the right combination today, quite by accident, as I probably moved a jumper on one of the adapters that had failed for me before. This after very close reading of the Thinkpad Legacy Hardware forum on https://forum.thinkpads.com/

This CF card is a little bit faster than the original disk; I'd just picked the first 2GB one I found in my collection. I have benchmarked all of them so the next OS will go on the fastest one I can find. Probably an ancient Linux or IBM OS/2 Warp 4.

It's hard to describe the satisfaction of getting old kit like this working again! #retrocomputing

A side-on macro photo of a Compact Flash to 40-pin IDE adapter sitting on a wooden table, with a SanDisk Extreme III 2.0GB card inserted. Along the edge is a jumper across the two rightmost of three pins. The CF/IDE card works in this mode.

A 45° downward view into the Thinkpad 760CD with the bonnet up (actually the keyboard) showing the superbly modular design. At the front left is a floppy disk drive (complete with sticker outlining how I've exercised it recently), in the middle the still-working battery, and on the right, the hard drive bay with the CF/IDE adapter connected to the proprietary internal connector and the underside of a Compact Flash card visible. (The adapter gets installed face-down.)

I wanted to exercise the CF card setup, so I forced the OS to check the disk on next boot. Here's a photo of part of the early boot NT text-mode blue screen showing the output of Windows NT's NTFS CHKDSK verifying the filesystem and disk surface.

A 45° downward angle photo taken from eye-level of the Thinkpad with the screen open and the Windows NT4 login screen prompting me to "Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to log on".

The computer screen has correct colour balance; the laptop and background has an intense orange cast.

I’ve been cleaning out my garage to set-up a hobby area and we found an old CompactFlash card from 2003 in a box. I didn’t have anything available to read it, plus I wasn’t expecting any actual data on it after sitting dormant for 20 years, but after getting a dongle and plugging in the…

https://paulie.cool/old-compactflash-card-still-has-pics-on-it/

An easy solution to the large disk issue with vintage PCs is Western Digital's EZ-Drive. It installs itself in the boot sector, which is placed in the beginning of the disk, at a position where large disk geometry isn't an issue for the BIOS. It overrides the built-in BIOS calls for disk access, and makes the whole disk addressable for DOS.

It's not compatible with all drives, and the biggest disk size I could use was an 8 GB #CompactFlash module. It is, however, a really really easy solution that will get you off the ground quickly. CompactFlash modules are basically IDE drives with a different connector, so they're perfect for this - it also allows you to easily remove your "harddisk" and read it on another system.

If you choose a different solution for the geometry issue later on, the software can easily be removed from the boot sector with the installer software.

#vintagecomputing #ezdrive

Monitor showing EZ-Drive software by Western Digital.

Photo of a CF-to-IDE adapter connected to a PC. A CompactFlash card with the label "FreeDOS" is mounted. LEDs are lit.

So I got that batch of 21 small-capacity #CompactFlash cards. Among them was this #IBM #Microdrive from 2000. It's a tiny hard drive in a slightly thicker-than-standard CF card package. I ddrescued an image to see if the surface is good - it is - but the disk is egregiously slow.

A close-up, edge-on view of the Microdrive, showing the Compact Flash connector. The edge-on angle shows that the drive is thicker than typical.

The rear of the drive indicating it's CF+ Type II Model DSCM-11000, copyright IBM Corp 1999, 2000.

The output of `ddrescue` showing a completely successful scrape of every byte on the Microdrive. No read errors, no bad sectors.

The results of `gnome-disks` Benchmark test. The Microdrive has an average read rate of 2.9MB/sec, an average write rate of 2.5MB/sec and an average access time of 22.53 msec (which I have to assume is milliseconds).

What's a sensible unit price for each of these? I'm not selling, I'm buying. I'm in Ireland.

#mastodaoine #retrocomputing #DigitalPhotography #CompactFlash

Twenty-one small-capacity Compact Flash cards, ranging in size from 512MB to 8GB.

I've not been having much success with CF to IDE adapters in my gorgeous #IBM #Thinkpad760CD, so I'm hoping this #mSATA to #IDE adapter will do the job. Though it seems to be impossible to find mSATA SSDs in sizes smaller than 64GB.

#CompactFlash #IntegratedDriveElectronics

A close-up photo of a 64GB mSATA SSD mounted in an mSATA to 2.5 inch 44-pin IDE adapter. This device will replace the still-functioning spinning IDE disk in my vintage laptop.

@sabi well, thanks to "#ConversionTechnology" you can use #microSD to #CompactFlash adaptors and have acres of cheap storage that is still decently fast...

Any UK people got any old large #CompactFlash cards they'd like to give a new home to? I have an old field recorder that takes them and it seems like the sort of format people might have in a junk drawer. My card is 1 GB so anything bigger than that would be an improvement!

(I'm using it to digitise old tapes and at the moment I'm having to clear the card each time I flip the tape!)

#compactflash

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