Very old computer working?

[timberwolf1]

Hey before you sell that overclocked computer, throw in a freebie or two, like Strike Commander or Day Of the Tentacle.

Oh, sorry - you've no CD-ROM. Then just Strike Commander then. But then you need a floppy drive coz Strike Commander had like 8 floppies.

 

[MU_Engineer]

There are at least 150 comments in the thread. I replied to five. I happened to wake up a little early and comment, so all of them were in order.

 

[maypep_necro]

Hey before you sell that overclocked computer, throw in a freebie or two, like Strike Commander or Day Of the Tentacle.

Oh, sorry - you've no CD-ROM. Then just Strike Commander then. But then you need a floppy drive coz Strike Commander had like 8 floppies.

This PC had no CD-Drives but i added 1 at the shop. (cd rom was faster than my CPU )

 

[maypep_necro]

Damit guys! Turbo mode took the cpu down to 8Mhz for backward compatibility with old, old software, turn it on and it simply made it go the factory speed, a whole 25Mhz!!!! jeesh

Yeah but if we press the buttin, sometimezxs ir crash

And my funniest post ever was the guy who wz addinz Z do thingz az thiz

 

[maypep_necro]

*Bump*

 

[angry_ducky]

*Bump*

Why?

 

[maypep_necro]

To put the topic at the top of the last again.

 

[mesarectifier]

Stop wasting everyone's time Maypep, your being an idiot.

 

[maypep_necro]

I don't! i will plug my old PC soon. Ill post replys on the result.

 

[mitch074]

512MB? You mean, 512 KB... Strange, a 286 would usually come with more than a MB of RAM, otherwise it had no advantage over the 8086...

 

[Seiryoku]

i have one in almost the same conditions, working, just to do word works or things like that, printing in a loud point matrix printer (citizen 200 gx or something like that)...

486- 100 MHZ
8MB RAM SIMM
Trident Video Card 1 MB
850 MB HD

With that card and that processor, runs Quake 1, and Daytona, obviously with the worst resolution but..., runs! (at good velocity).


see ya!!!

 

[maypep_necro]

Not RAM, HDD space was 500 MB

Ram is: 8 MB

OS: Windows 95

 

[lashton]

Okay here is what you do, plug everything in, plug it into the wall DON'T switch on just yet, then get a really long pice of wood, from anothe room, flick the switch with the wood, that way if a fire consumes you can run for the door, but beware of flying projectiles, but seriously take it to a computer store, maybe the best bet, but your question is likened to asking "does a plane fly", well yes it does, but if it hasn't for 10 years is it because it doesn't have a propellor or is it just because no one flys it?

 

[maypep_necro]

Okay here is what you do, plug everything in, plug it into the wall DON'T switch on just yet, then get a really long pice of wood, from anotheroom, flick the switch with the wood, that way if a fire consumes you can run for thedorr, but beware of flying projectiles, but seriously take it to a computer store, amybe the best bet, but your question is likened to asking "does a plane fly", well yes it does, but if it hasn't for 10 yearsis it because it doesn't have a propellor or is it just because no one flys it?

Lol?

That's why my brother's computer doesn't need anti-virus software; 450MHz P3 doesn't meet virus's system requirements.

 

[lashton]

Strike Cmmander (the flying game) ruled, they need another game like this

 

[michaelahess]

dot-matrix, ya know like spaceballs

 

[crizazykid2]

*Bump*

You need to learn to let threads die.

 

[mitch074]

I was replying to your 286 specs - no, you can't have win95 running on a 286, it requires a 486 as a minimum (it has been compiled to use some 486 specific instructions).

 

[fainis]

hehehe you`re young and strong my friend check this out i have this beauty ..it`s gonna worth some in a while:


cpu: intel 8086...separate CTC 8253, separate paralel port 8255, SIO, pic 8259 etc....
mobo : hell if i know .........
hdd: 42 mb
floppy: yes
video monochrome...don`t know the type....but is vga compatible...it works on my trinitron tube



this beauty was a killer same 20 years ago...and still running
i had 823487283 computers but this one is the oldest in the hood so i`m gonna keep it.....it`s quite small ..it fits in a drawer

 

[angry_ducky]

*Bump*

You need to learn to let threads die.

This thread wasn't dead; it was in a coma, and it just woke up.

 

[fainis]

good point in there ducky...now can anybady comment on my rig...that 8086......who wants to buy it ......

 

[mitch074]

sold one of those 8 years ago for, like, 10 bucks.

It sported a winchester 20 Gb HD, a 3"5 DD floppy drive, and 640 Kb of RAM (the max amount this CPU could address).

before that I had a 8088@4.77MHz, 640Kb of RAM, a 5"25 DD floppy drive, no HD (!) no sound (not even the IBM buzzer) and an Hercules mono compatible video circuit - with a little CGA emulator driver.

It was my first game machine: I spent hours playing Xenon2 on it.

I really started having fun on a 386DX 20MHz with 4 Mb of RAM and a 65 Mb HD (the fine days of Doublespace, Drivespace, Stacker...).

I directly switched to the Pentium 75. Gave it a 430TX powered mobo, and there I got started with overclocking (a P133 clocked @2*83MHz with 512Kb of L2 pipelined burst cache packed a mean punch for the time!)

 

[fainis]

8O whoooooouahhhhhhhh...man you must be smoking dust...that machine will worth allot in same years............

10 bucks for a 486...but for a 8086......complete one.......i don`t know....

 

[mitch074]

Don't be silly, the 8086 was damn common in its time - it's worth even less than a Commodore 64.

 

[fainis]

yes my friend in it`s time 1978...i think....over the ages ....it a piece of museum :twisted: