With the release of Leo Binkowski’s recovered Mass Storage Unit (MSU hard drive) cabserve from 1986 last night (February 15, 2024) we’ve started to dig in and see what sort of goodies we can find. Behold! The NABU PC Field Diagnostic Tests v2.2:

To load the Field Diagnostic Tests v2.2 software use the “NABU Network 1986 Leo’s Cycle (Feb 2024)” shortcut option and type in PCTEST then press Go!

If you haven’t tried it, be sure to check out our Open Source NABU Network Internet Adapter software and play some classic retro video games!

This piece of software is an amazing addition to have along with using Rudy’s Retro Intel NABU Computer Diagnostics document which as of this blog post has been updated to cover using the Field Diagnostic Tests v2.2 software.

You can find Rudy’s updated v1.8.1 (February 16, 2024) NABU Computer Diagnostics PDF document on our NABU Network resources page under the “Rudy’s Retro Intel NABU Related Documentation” section.

If you are having issues with your NABU computer and need to do some diagnostics, troubleshooting or repairs, Rudy’s document is a wealth of useful information for any NABU PC repair for sure!

As an added bonus, Rudy has some really good NABU computer related videos on his Rudy’s Retro Intel YouTube channel, so be sure to check out his channel if you haven’t already.

If you’d like to help with the NabuNetwork.com preservation project, feel free to get in touch as we are always looking to improve things around the site. Remember, NABU Forever!!!

Thanks to Leo Binkowski, with the help of Santo from vintagecomputer.ca, they have successfully recovered files from Leo’s Mass Storage Unit (MSU hard drive) cabserve from 1986.

According to Leo this would be the last cycle that broadcast from the original NABU Network in Canada before they went off the air back on August 31, 1986.

There are 2 awesome and really fun 3D games in this cycle worth checking out. Those NABU PC game titles are Tank Commander and Tennis:

To load them use the NABU Network 1986 Leo’s Cycle (Feb 2024) shortcut option and type in TANK COMMANDER or TENNIS then press Go! Boom, you’re off to the races!

Even though Manager’s Baseball is in this Cycle Menu, the MB000 pak is sadly not included, however some of the data files are there so there’s hope it can possibly be recovered.

The way Leo talks about Manager’s Baseball, it sounds really impressive from a game software programming stand point, especially for the time period it was created.

Thanks to GryBsh of NabuNetSim (NNS) for help in making this recovered 1986 MSU hard drive NABU Network cycle available in the NabuNetwork.com Internet Adapter software.

If you’d like to start enjoying it right now, it’s listed as “NABU Network 1986 Leo’s Cycle (Feb 2024)” in our official NabuNetwork.com Internet Adapter software.

If you haven’t tried it, be sure to check out our Open Source NABU Network Internet Adapter software and play some classic retro video games!

For those who might be interested, if you’d like to help with the NabuNetwork.com preservation project, feel free to get in touch as we are always looking to improve things around the site. Remember, NABU Forever!!!