One very short thing I would need to say is that if you have a Windows 10 or 11 computer you can use what is known as “DOSbox “ Installing Windows 3.1 or whatever your 386 computer was using and you can even install other programs as well. It will take quite a bit of doing, but you could essentially copy everything into DOS emulator and run everything as if it were your 386. The cool part is that almost everything will fit on a CD or two! They even make others emulators as well. The only thing I can’t help you with is printing. I have not set one up to print from the DOS emulator environment within Windows 10 or 11 Definitely something to look into Mike Rosen Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Jul 10, 2025, at 11:45 AM, Sentrytv <sentrytv@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello and welcome to the group Just a quick question or two and a couple of pointers on what to check.
You say the fan comes on so you know it has power. Do you see any other lights on including keyboard lights?
If you see no other lights and no signs of life other than the power fan,it seems to me as if you have AC power only and you don’t have any DC power.
Which means the power supply is not functioning properly, probably a blown fuse.
With the storms we’ve been having lately I wouldn’t be surprised.
Because of its age, the power supply needs to be tested completely and to be made sure that it has parts that are 100% reliable.
This, I am sure, can be done at any of the up upcoming repair workshops at InfoAge wall Township nj.
While we do not have all of the parts to fix everything, we can certainly help you test it out and see if the power supply is working properly.
Other things can be tested as well if the power supply works, sometimes a deep dive can be done, depending on how much time there is. If you’re handy with a multimeter,
You can do a quick test checking for 12 V and 5 v @ the connectors for the floppy drive or hard drive or even the motherboard. I personally have not been to attend any of the workshops recently and this weekend has a big swap meet up in North Jersey, so I will not be there at a workshop on Sunday for sure. So I figured this might get you started !
Mike Rosen
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On Jul 10, 2025, at 11:33 AM, cuesnj--- via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: