Very old computer working?

[CompTIA_Rep]

AHAHHA. Long time ago. but they actualy kept the OS on floppy untill windows 2000/xp. I still have windows 98 disks on floppy. (40 of them I think).

Anyway, the earliest computer I remember using was the 8088 which is earlier then then C64. It had that old cassette drive attached, and a screen as well. I dont remember what OS it was running, but im gessing PC-DOS. (not microsoft, IBM).

 

[dasickninja]

If one of those 40 disks were corrupted.... ah mi dios que usted es jodido. Had that happen to me and I think I put either my or my brother's head thru a wall.
Ahh the good old days, thank the gods that they've passed.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

We copied every disk to be sure that didnt happen. And you can do data recovery on those, sector by sector, bit by bit if need be.

 

[OldGoat]

Dear GOD! Im only 22 and my computer storage house (aka garage) is filled with computers much older then yours, you panzies.

I got ride of alot of my older computers, I got tired of moving them around the country with me...

 

[dasickninja]

Unless someone left said disk on the daskboard of their car in the heat of a Carribean summer... 8O

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Naw... thats just a flesh wound.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

For the next 3 repleis, im only speaking in binary.



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01101101011000100110010101110010001000000110111101100110001000000110010101101100
01100101011000110111010001110010011011110110111001110011001000000111011101100101
01110010011001010010000001110100011001010111001001110010011010010110001001101100
01111001001000000110100101101110011000110110111101101110011101100110010101101110
01101001011001010110111001100011011001010110010000100000011001000111010101110010
01101001011011100110011100100000011101000110100001101001011100110010000001110000
01101111011100110111010000101110

 

[OldGoat]

who here still has any hardware that is older than commodore 64? I still have one of those as well as a VIC 20 (I think I must have been about 4 years old when I used to play on those machines). I think there may even be an old style tape drive in my garage somewhere, and when I say old style, I mean the kind that used audio tapes to record data as noise 😀

-Zorak

I still have my original ATARI game station and games..... 😳
I think I still have an old Tandy Keyboard computer that used a casette tape for storage laying around somewhere.

 

[dasickninja]

You must put this all into context. In the US things aren't as expensive as they were and still are in the Islands. The computer was basically something around $5000 when adjusted for US dollars. Floppys at that time to my knowledge were expensive in the US and for what I know were priced at murderous rates in St. Lucia. What we had you conserved.
That and the thing actually melted. It freaking melted. 8O
I'm kinda happy I live in the US just for that.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

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01010100011010000110000101110100011100110010000001110111011011110111001001110100
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00100000011010010110011000100000011010010111010000100000011101110110111101110010
011010110111001100101110

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

You must put this all into context. In the US things aren't as expensive as they were and still are in the Islands. The computer was basically something around $5000 when adjusted for US dollars. Floppys at that time to my knowledge were expensive in the US and for what I know were priced at murderous rates in St. Lucia. What we had you conserved.
That and the thing actually melted. It freaking melted. 8O
I'm kinda happy I live in the US just for that.

Computers were about $5000 back then in the united states. I collect National Geographic mags that advertise the old systems.

 

[Zorak]

Actually, I still have the original disks for Dos 6.0 and 6.22 as well as the original floppies for win 3.1. It is funny because when I built my first rig about 3 years ago, for some reason I couldn't install winxp (it would freeze during the install), and the only OS I had on hand was a win98se cd my cousin gave me. Well, little did I know that cd was only the UPGRADE version of win98 so I had to have a prior version of windows on my disk to install it. So, I actually went through and first installed dos 6.0 and then 6.22 and then I installed windows 3.1 on this machine before I could "upgrade" to win98se!

Keep in mind that for less than an hour, I was running win 3.1 on an athlon xp 2600+ @2.083Ghz ! I nearly died of laughter when I saw that HUGE screen and HUGE icons (i don't think win 3.1 supported resolution changes) because the last time I had used windows 3.1 was back when we still had our 486 nearly 10 years prior.

So, before I finally got winxp to install/work I actually backed up the win 3.1 floppies to a CD in case I would ever need to do that again. Of course, now that I have gotten winxp to work, and I am even thinking of migrating to Linux permanently, I have a cd with this really old operating system on it for no apparent reason. I guess in another few years I will try reinstalling win 3.1 just for laughs.

-Zorak

 

[dasickninja]

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[gm0n3y]

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011010110111001100101110

01001001001000000110010001101111011011100010011101110100001000000110101101101110
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00100000011000100111010101110100001000000110111101101110011001010010000001101111
01100110001000000110110101111001001000000110011001110010011010010110010101101110
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00101100001000000111001101100101011001110110000100101100001000000110000101110010
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00100000011100000111001100110001001011000010000001100101011101000110001100101001
00101110

*EDIT* Damn no word wrap in this forum!

 

[dasickninja]

edit the damn post the window's too long
Edit:
Thanks

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Just for future reference.
You can boot from windows XP upgrade and install XP. It will ask you to insert a previous version of windows and thats it. You didnt need to go though all that.

Likewise, you can copy the cab files from windows98 over to the C drive and install it as a full version, no upgrade needed.

 

[vikris]

My old p-100 is operational, but I need a new hdd, and more edo ram. I think that supported max is 256 MB, i.e. 4*64. Currently, it has 4*8 MB, LuckyStar MB, i430fx chipset, 3 empty VLB slots and 1 empty PCI, bad WD HDD with 1282 MB capacity, 256KB L2 cache pipelined, SB Creative 16 on VLB, Diamond Stealth graphics with 2 MB ram on PCI and 15" kfc flat screen monitor.

Off the topic, this monitor has a higher refresh rate than my current LG L1915S LCD-TFT.

 

[gm0n3y]

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00010011011110111010101110100001000000111010001101000011001
01001000000110110001101111011011100110011100100000011100000
11011110111001101110100001011100010111000101110001000000101
00110111010001110101011100000110100101100100001000000101010
00100100000100000011001100110111101110010011101010110110100
10110000100000011011100110111101110100001000000111011101110
01001100001011100000111000001101001011011100110011100100000
01101101011110010010000001110100011001010111100001110100001
00001

 

[dasickninja]

I'd love to live in your world for about ten minutes man.

 

[OldGoat]

For the next 3 repleis, im only speaking in binary.



01000001001000000100110001100001011100100110011101100101001000000110111001110101
01101101011000100110010101110010001000000110111101100110001000000110010101101100
01100101011000110111010001110010011011110110111001110011001000000111011101100101
01110010011001010010000001110100011001010111001001110010011010010110001001101100
01111001001000000110100101101110011000110110111101101110011101100110010101101110
01101001011001010110111001100011011001010110010000100000011001000111010101110010
01101001011011100110011100100000011101000110100001101001011100110010000001110000
01101111011100110111010000101110

01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110011 01101111 00100000 01110111 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01100010 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100011 01100101 01101100 01101100 01110011

 

[gm0n3y]

Your monitor is made by KFC? Mmmmm, fried chicken...

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Comptuers only had 1 VLB slot (think AGP). Your thinking of Extended ISA (32bit ISA ).

 

[gm0n3y]

My world is better than the outside world.

Or to quote "I reject your reality and substitute my own."

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

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00010011011110111010101110100001000000111010001101000011001
01001000000110110001101111011011100110011100100000011100000
11011110111001101110100001011100010111000101110001000000101
00110111010001110101011100000110100101100100001000000101010
00100100000100000011001100110111101110010011101010110110100
10110000100000011011100110111101110100001000000111011101110
01001100001011100000111000001101001011011100110011100100000
01101101011110010010000001110100011001010111100001110100001
00001

01001110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01100010 01101100 01100101 01101101 00100001 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100100 01101111 01101110 01110100 00100000 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110011 01100011 01110010 01101111 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101000 01101111 01110010 01101001 01111010 01101111 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101100 01111001 00101100 00100000 01101001 00100000 01100100 01101111 01101110 01110100 00100000 01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01101111 01100110 01110100 01100101 01101110 00100000 01100101 01101110 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000 00100000 01101001 01101110 01100110 01100001 01100011 01110100 00100001 :lol:

 

[OldGoat]

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