{"id":1,"date":"2021-08-22T12:52:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T12:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/?p=1"},"modified":"2022-04-21T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T11:35:23","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Restoring a 386SX noteboook from 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>published on 21.04.22<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m restoring a laptop from around 1991. It&#8217;s a Peacock Computers 386SX Notebook (more commonly sold in Germany as a Tandon NB\/386sx &#8211; thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/stephan.win31.de\/nb386sx.htm\">Stephan Gro\u00dfkla\u00df for his page about the Tandon<\/a>). This version has a UK keyboard.<\/p>\n<style>\/*! elementor - v3.6.4 - 13-04-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"783\" src=\"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/0_IMG_20220421_082418-v01.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/0_IMG_20220421_082418-v01.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/0_IMG_20220421_082418-v01-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/0_IMG_20220421_082418-v01-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/0_IMG_20220421_082418-v01-920x703.jpg 920w, https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/0_IMG_20220421_082418-v01-230x176.jpg 230w, https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/0_IMG_20220421_082418-v01-350x268.jpg 350w, https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/0_IMG_20220421_082418-v01-480x367.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>From initial inspection, it looks to have the following main components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.x86-guide.net\/en\/fpu\/IIT-3C87SX-20-cpu-no3771.html\">IIT 3C87SX-20 co-processor<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4MB of RAM (in 4 sticks)<\/li>\n<li>a 60MB IDE Hard Disk (<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.preterhuman.net\/Conner_CP2064\">Conner Peripherals CP2064<\/a>, assembled in Scotland!)<\/li>\n<li>an IDE Floppy Disk drive<\/li>\n<li>4 * &#8220;D&#8221; Cell Ni-Cad battery pack<\/li>\n<li>4 * &#8220;AAA&#8221; Cell Ni-Cad battery pack for the BIOS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main Ni-Cad batteries are dead, and the 4 AAA Ni-Cad batteries for the BIOS have leaked quite badly, so both sets need to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>The HDD is likely to be a key failure point going forward, so it seems a good time to replace it with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsatacables.com\/sd-sdhc-mmc-to-2-5-44-pin-ide-male-adapter-converter-mmc-ide44-adpt\">Godshark IDE to SD adapter.<\/a> That&#8217;ll make space for some new AA NiCADs, whilst lowering the heat and noise too.<\/p>\n<p>If the floppy drive doesn&#8217;t work, that can be replaced with a FD to USB adapter as well.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"717\" src=\"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220418_220851-v01.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220418_220851-v01.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220418_220851-v01-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220418_220851-v01-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220418_220851-v01-920x644.jpg 920w, https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220418_220851-v01-230x161.jpg 230w, https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220418_220851-v01-350x245.jpg 350w, https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220418_220851-v01-480x336.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, it&#8217;s not getting past POST, and that&#8217;s probably because of the leaky BIOS Ni-Cads. The display is flickering and sometimes doesn&#8217;t show at all: i&#8217;m hoping that&#8217;s just down to those leaky batteries as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>published on 21.04.22 I&#8217;m restoring a laptop from around 1991. It&#8217;s a Peacock Computers 386SX Notebook (more commonly sold in Germany as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogpost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}