I must admit that I've never had any issues with uiptool, either with NetUSBee on the ST(e) or the version for USB ethernet dongles on the TT.

I've never got STiNG working on either and my MiNT is too old for the current MiNTnet stuff.

I'm not sure about that dayglow orange and yellow colour scheme.

I doubt that anyone's interested but I've just fixed the permissions on the Oxford University Department of Earth Sciences so that the download links from the original MiNTOS web page ( http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~steve/mintos.html ) work again. You may notice on the web page that it says that both m...

I must admit that I only got my 520STM + SF314 floppy as it was second-hand. £275 from Carron Computers on 16/2/88... I found that receipt last night as well.

It helped a great deal that I was living at home and hence low rent!

Steve wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 7:45 pm

Wow that was a lot of money back then, you must have been/are still quite wealthy

That was about a year and a half of saving from my first real job.

I've just found the receipt for my TT and monitor.
The blue splodge should say "Helston Computer Centre".

The biggest problem with that generation of Dell Precision workstations is the processor daughter board at the bottom. The thing gets flexed by the cover as it is put on and taken off and the square matrix of pins in the connector at the motherboard end start to not make contact properly, leading to...

:goodpost: Storing these old machines in the loft with a battery in is one of the biggest problems. I had a similar issue with an Amiga 500 that had an RTC card in it. Hard drives are also a pain when they fail. Shorting 12V is not good. Am surprised it didn't take anything else out with it. I was ...

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