18 May
2009
18 May
'09
9:03 p.m.
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:50 PM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
Indeed. I turned a tiny Packard-Bell 486 into a Linux Router Project
router a while back, but, surprise, surprise, it lasted only as long
as the (proprietary-form-factor) PSU.
I have fired up my TRS-80 Model III in the past two weeks. *looks out
at the other M3 owners on the list* Have you?!? ;-)
I have to check, but I think I am still having a RAM chip issue - it's
either bad sockets or a bad 4116. The machine is loaded with 48K, but
may only have 32K working reliably. It won't successfully boot any of
my M3 Infocom games (which is why I had it on recently).
I just ran FreeDOS last month, booted from a Knoppix live CD. I
needed to boot to "DOS" to twiddle something on a 3COM NIC before
doing a PXE boot on an otherwise blank machine.
So did I.
-ethan
Packard-Bell
Ewww... ?Nasty! Zip disks
I had a professor who said that Iomega names its products after the sound
the product makes when it dies. Z80 CPU's
Yummy! MS-DOS
I use FreeDOS nowadays. ?Someday really soon, I'll pull out one of my older
machines and turn it into a circa 1990 dream machine... running FreeDOS. ?Does anyone else here maintain such machines?
I haven't specifically tried to build a "1990 Dream Machine", but I
still have my last 486 configuration intact (c. 1996). I use it for
5.25" floppy work since it has a combo 3.5"/5.25" one-bay drive I
bought new when they first came out.
Egghead
When I first heard about Newegg, I thought it was Egghead coming back.