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Michael @noven · 2026-05-25 · 04:35 UTC

I really wish I knew more information about my old #intel8088 computer.

It was beige, looked like a Tandy 1000 but was not a Tandy 1000.

It had an amber phosphor monochrome monitor, but I am not sure if it was a match with the computer; it probably wasn't.

It had an old MFM hard drive, 14 MB I think, around 20 if I compressed the whole drive.

I kinda want to recreate it but don't know what to look for, because playing ZZT on it was peak 1995 for me.

#intel8088

Retrópolis @[email protected] · 2026-04-09 · 12:00 UTC

MS-DOS no Apple IIe. É isso mesmo que você leu!

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/09/ms-dos-apple-ii/

#MundoRetro #AppleII #driver #expanso #Intel8088 #MSDOS #placa

#placa #msdos #intel8088 #expanso #driver #appleii

Retrópolis @[email protected] · 2026-04-09 · 12:00 UTC

MS-DOS no Apple IIe. É isso mesmo que você leu!

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/09/ms-dos-apple-ii/

#MundoRetro #AppleII #driver #expanso #Intel8088 #MSDOS #placa

#placa #msdos #intel8088 #expanso #driver #appleii

Retrópolis @[email protected] · 2026-04-09 · 12:00 UTC

MS-DOS no Apple IIe. É isso mesmo que você leu!

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/09/ms-dos-apple-ii/

#MundoRetro #AppleII #driver #expanso #Intel8088 #MSDOS #placa

#mundoretro #appleii #driver #expanso #intel8088 #msdos

Retrópolis @[email protected] · 2026-04-09 · 12:00 UTC

MS-DOS no Apple IIe. É isso mesmo que você leu!

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/09/ms-dos-apple-ii/

#MundoRetro #AppleII #driver #expanso #Intel8088 #MSDOS #placa

#placa #msdos #intel8088 #expanso #driver #appleii

Daniele Verducci 🧉 @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 15:40 UTC

UH-OH.

Every time I press a key, either it doesn't do anything or it prints a bunch of unrelated characters. It also beeps a lot of times, like if the keyboard's buffer was full, but it still prints characters 🤷‍♂️
I never debugged a keyboard problem and, honestly, have no idea how an #AT #keyboard works...

#retrocomputing #dos #intel8088

#at #dos #intel8088 #keyboard #retrocomputing

Daniele Verducci 🧉 @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 15:40 UTC

UH-OH.

Every time I press a key, either it doesn't do anything or it prints a bunch of unrelated characters. It also beeps a lot of times, like if the keyboard's buffer was full, but it still prints characters 🤷‍♂️
I never debugged a keyboard problem and, honestly, have no idea how an #AT #keyboard works...

#retrocomputing #dos #intel8088

#at #dos #intel8088 #keyboard #retrocomputing

Daniele Verducci 🧉 @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 15:40 UTC

UH-OH.

Every time I press a key, either it doesn't do anything or it prints a bunch of unrelated characters. It also beeps a lot of times, like if the keyboard's buffer was full, but it still prints characters 🤷‍♂️
I never debugged a keyboard problem and, honestly, have no idea how an #AT #keyboard works...

#retrocomputing #dos #intel8088

#retrocomputing #keyboard #intel8088 #dos #at

Daniele Verducci 🧉 @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 15:40 UTC

UH-OH.

Every time I press a key, either it doesn't do anything or it prints a bunch of unrelated characters. It also beeps a lot of times, like if the keyboard's buffer was full, but it still prints characters 🤷‍♂️
I never debugged a keyboard problem and, honestly, have no idea how an #AT #keyboard works...

#retrocomputing #dos #intel8088

#at #dos #intel8088 #keyboard #retrocomputing

Daniele Verducci 🧉 @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 15:36 UTC

I'm not sure if the floppy drive is 720 or 1.44, but for food measure I popped in a 720k floppy from the #amstrad ppc-640 luggable pc.
...and it reads it correctly! It's booting DOS!!!
Let's find a compatible keyboard and play something!

#retrocomputing #dos #intel8088

#amstrad #dos #intel8088 #retrocomputing

Daniele Verducci 🧉 @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 15:36 UTC

I'm not sure if the floppy drive is 720 or 1.44, but for food measure I popped in a 720k floppy from the #amstrad ppc-640 luggable pc.
...and it reads it correctly! It's booting DOS!!!
Let's find a compatible keyboard and play something!

#retrocomputing #dos #intel8088

#amstrad #dos #intel8088 #retrocomputing

Daniele Verducci 🧉 @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 15:36 UTC

I'm not sure if the floppy drive is 720 or 1.44, but for food measure I popped in a 720k floppy from the #amstrad ppc-640 luggable pc.
...and it reads it correctly! It's booting DOS!!!
Let's find a compatible keyboard and play something!

#retrocomputing #dos #intel8088

#retrocomputing #intel8088 #dos #amstrad

Daniele Verducci 🧉 @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 15:36 UTC

I'm not sure if the floppy drive is 720 or 1.44, but for food measure I popped in a 720k floppy from the #amstrad ppc-640 luggable pc.
...and it reads it correctly! It's booting DOS!!!
Let's find a compatible keyboard and play something!

#retrocomputing #dos #intel8088

#amstrad #dos #intel8088 #retrocomputing

Daniele Verducci 🧉 @[email protected] · 2026-03-07 · 15:31 UTC

NO. WAY.
I've got a video output and it's clearly running! It's counting memory!
It has 640k, as usual

#retrocomputing #dos #intel8088