Old computer t3200SX

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Piotr Piechota

Hellow
I never use this forum.
I'm Piotr from Poland. I have big trouble.
I must repair old laptop - TOSHIBA T3200SX becouse it has special card for
control system in mine in Portugal.
It is 386SX comuter :)
It's HDD is dead.
I try insert the new HDD 3.2 GB ond of course comuter sad BAD HDD TYPE.
In BIOS I can chose no disk or 40MB
Is possible solve this problem.

Piotr Piechota
 
Piotr Piechota said:
Hellow
I never use this forum.
I'm Piotr from Poland. I have big trouble.
I must repair old laptop - TOSHIBA T3200SX becouse it has special card for
control system in mine in Portugal.
It is 386SX comuter :)
It's HDD is dead.
I try insert the new HDD 3.2 GB ond of course comuter sad BAD HDD TYPE.
In BIOS I can chose no disk or 40MB
Is possible solve this problem.
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What is the broken hard drive model number?

Doesn't the BIOS allow you to choose between a group of different hard drive
sizes?
 
You will have to find an OLD used harddrive that the old BIOS of that
computer can support. Since its a 386SX computer it is not likely that you
will find such a drive. Time for a new computer, I am afraid.
 
Hellow
I never use this forum.
I'm Piotr from Poland. I have big trouble.
I must repair old laptop - TOSHIBA T3200SX becouse it has special card for
control system in mine in Portugal.
It is 386SX comuter :)
It's HDD is dead.
I try insert the new HDD 3.2 GB ond of course comuter sad BAD HDD TYPE.
In BIOS I can chose no disk or 40MB
Is possible solve this problem.

Piotr Piechota
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Oddly enough, I believe I happen to have a Toshiba T3200SX with live
40 MB hard drive sitting in a closet here...
Raymond Sirois
SysOp: The Lost Chord BBS
607-733-5745
telnet://thelostchord.dns2go.com:6000
 
What is the broken hard drive model number?
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No I don't remebmer. It is strench in BIOS is set 40MB but phisycly HDD is
about 120MB
Doesn't the BIOS allow you to choose between a group of different hard drive
sizes?
Click to expand...
No you can chose only 'no disk' or '40MB'
 
<MEMORY-LANE MODE ON!>
Hi,

Blimey, I remember Bulletin Boards. Didn't really know there were still any
in existence. The Net/Web/Newsgroups has made them all but redundant I
guess.

I can remember, must be 20 years ago! Dialling various BBS from my Commodore
PET computer!
Can't really remember the names of any now, though I do remember PRESTEL
which was a sort of dial-up teletext information service run by BT (or was
it the Post Office then...). At the time it was pretty cool!

<MEMORY-LANE MODE OFF!>

(Just out of interest, What is on 'The Lost Chord'?)

Regards,

ChrisM
 
ChrisM said:
in existence. The Net/Web/Newsgroups has made them all but redundant I
guess.
PET computer!
Can't really remember the names of any now, though I do remember PRESTEL
which was a sort of dial-up teletext information service run by BT (or was
it the Post Office then...). At the time it was pretty cool!
Click to expand...

Man. I ran a BBS in the mid 90s. I really can't remember. As a hobby
like most were. I gave up computing for several years after that. I
am now re-hooked, more so then before.

I remember it was such a big deal because I actually multi-tasked with
a 386sx & had 2 phone lines. But it wasn't Windows I used, but
something else than ran on top of DOS (I can't remember the name).
"Desk"... something.. no, cannot remember.

Jeeez has the Internet taken off since then. Just huge. Now instead
of a BBS you can run your own website for cheaper than a BBS had cost.
Now you can register a domain name (I think that is the right term)
for $8.95 (good for a year), and pay $100 a year (or $10 a month) to
get a 3 database account. I did just that a week ago so my son can
run a web-based space strategy game (Blacknova Traders). A BBS would
cost you the price of a phone line (of course more for more than one
stinking line in), plus a dedicated computer (not cheap back then),
plus, if you didn't have close contacts (smaller cities & towns), a
lot of long distance calls to keep your email flowing. ANSI graphics
were big.

Big Mac
 
Oh the joys of reminiscing,
I think you were thinking of Quarterdecks 'DesqView'. That was amazing in
it's day:
Imagine being able to run 2 programs at once on the same PC! awesome ;-)

ANSI Graphics, hmmm.

ChrisM
 
Oh the joys of reminiscing,
I think you were thinking of Quarterdecks 'DesqView'. That was amazing in
it's day:
Imagine being able to run 2 programs at once on the same PC! awesome ;-)

ANSI Graphics, hmmm.

ChrisM
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Yes. That was it. DesqView.

And I got to be pretty good at ansi graphics. All you needed was a
geometrical mind for the type of drawings I did, not any real artist's
abilities.

Big Mac
 
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