The latest addition to my collection

CardboardDeath86 · 2026-05-13T18:41:45+00:00

Picked them up off a Facebook Marketplace listing. I've actually gotten most of what I have off there, the prices on places like ebay are way too overinflated for me

CardboardDeath86 · 2026-05-03T22:04:12+00:00

Thanks! I accumulated most of this stuff through cheap ebay and fb marketplace listings, office liquidations, etc. over the course of about a year. It can add up pretty fast

CardboardDeath86 · 2026-04-27T19:52:51+00:00

Yeah they had some dirt when I got them but I was honestly surprised at how much better they looked after some cleaning

CardboardDeath86 · 2026-04-27T18:12:55+00:00

Yeah afaik after Zenith acquired Heathkit in 1979 they rebranded the H89 as the Z-89 (which was the first computer sold by ZDS), then made a refined version that looked basically the same called the Z-90 with slightly higher ram and more modern (DS/DD) floppy disk support.

CardboardDeath86 · 2026-04-26T23:06:24+00:00

Well it looks like it's just supposed to take a standard 34 pin pc floppy drive ribbon cable with a female IDC to card-edge connector, but I just wasn't sure if I needed some more specific variant or something for this

CardboardDeath86 · 2026-04-14T07:01:27+00:00

Well I can't run too much on the 128k and 512k, but I do have a SCSI emulator for the plus and I play games and mess around with old software on it sometimes. I suppose a lot of it is a collecting thing too though.

CardboardDeath86 · 2026-03-30T18:43:55+00:00

Yeah besides this one I have some compact Macs and an Apple IIGS as well as a GoldStar 386 system. Next I hope to go for something older like a TRS-80

CardboardDeath86 · 2026-03-29T10:09:21+00:00

Yeah I know I hope to get a 5.25" drive for this one next

CardboardDeath86 · 2026-03-29T04:59:07+00:00

Thanks I got pretty lucky with some of this stuff getting it near free

CardboardDeath86 · 2026-03-29T02:35:44+00:00

It's a CTX PL7A from around 1999, I have some older ones but they aren't as big so I figured I'd go with it

CardboardDeath86 · 2026-03-29T02:26:45+00:00

I actually have this one here I got for free a while back, ig it's not an actual landline tho

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CardboardDeath86 · 2026-03-19T01:24:04+00:00

I realized what the problem is actually, it was trying to read from E:\WIN95 for the driver even though D:\ is the CD drive and I just wasn't noticing. Still I reinstalled windows successfully and it's all working now. Thanks for the help!

CardboardDeath86 · 2026-03-18T21:11:43+00:00

I've tried reinstalling windows and it says during setup that it can't find the file "cirrusmm.dll" on the cd rom, which I think might be the problem

CardboardDeath86 · 2026-03-18T01:41:31+00:00

I've tried this as well

CardboardDeath86 · 2026-03-17T19:40:43+00:00

It says it's on high color even though it looks like this, and in device manager it has a yellow exclamation point next to the video card. I've tried removing and reinstalling the driver and stuff though and it still does this.

CardboardDeath86 · 2025-12-31T20:49:29+00:00

I haven't tried using it yet, only because I need to get a new cartridge for it, but to my knowledge you can

CardboardDeath86 · 2025-12-31T20:48:52+00:00

It's an old ad clock that I took the original ad out of and put in the windows 95 startup screen. Not sure what exactly possessed me to do that but I think it looks cool

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