Posts tagged "pc8801mkiisr"

• October 8, 2019

  The PC-8801MH gets its battery removed just in time

  

  I’ve had the PC-8801MH for awhile, but haven’t even bothered to get it open. It was only this morning, when I looked over my pickle jar full of removed clock batteries, that I realized I probably hadn’t removed the clock battery from it - and hadn’t done the SR either. No time like the present!

• March 18, 2019

  Dual Goteks in the PC-8801mkIISR at last

  

  In my previous entry, I found out that my old IBM PC “DOS” floppy adapter was not sufficient when trying to read from two drives at once. Somehow, they confused the floppy controller enough that nothing could be read from the second drive.

• February 23, 2019

  Attempting dual Goteks in the PC-8801mkIISR

  

  I got another couple of Gotek floppy emulators from China, and now the SR has dual floppy drives. Unfortunately, I can’t use them both at the same time.

• February 2, 2019

  PC-8801mkIISR opening and Gotek setup

  

  I’ve been wanting to get back to the SR for quite some time. I figured the Gotek adapter PCB and the HxC-flashed Gotek would be a direct drop-in to the new machine, and I was right.

• January 9, 2019

  Sony HB-101 and NEC PC-8801mkIISR pickup

  

  Japanese Santa dropped by my house earlier this week and left behind a back-shredding 40lb box of microcomputer goodness. Let’s investigate.