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What is that?! OMG! It's an actual 5 1/4" floppy drive attached to a 486DX2 66MHz!! (I don't know if the drive works or not yet, as I don't have any 5 1/4" floppies to test it with. But I'll try to grab some from my parents or one of my roommates.)
If this doesn't make you hot, nothing will!
Simplicity at it's finest!
Boys and girls, Wally is in love! I have a second DX2 system sitting here, but I need to get some KVM cables so I can hook it up. Prolly throw Linux the second rig, but I need to get a CD-ROM for it. I didn't open up the one I've got windows on, but since the were both gotten from the same location (a company I used to work for), I'm assuming they have the same parts inside. And they seem to, for the most part. They run IDE. The one I have up has a 500MB hard drive (I can back it up onto a CD-R!!), and the second has a 1GB hard drive, but no 5.25" FDD. But like I need one for Linux!
I just need to find a way to get TCP/IP working on the Win 3.11 box. But that's a story for another thread.
Haha. You're not the only one.
I became the proud owner of one nearly exactly like that about 2 months ago. Cyrix 486 66DX2.
I stripped it of the 1.44 floppy and 545MB Seagate hard drive though. The SETI team was in need of their service.
Did spend enough time reminiscing over the 5 1/4 it had plugged into it. Also had Windows 3.1 still on it.
I actually still have a copy of Windows 1.2 sitting here. Anyone remember it?
dude!!! um..... yeah ok sure ... why not... MSDOS ROCKS!!!!!
I got 5 1/4 disks laying around i think if you want you can have them!
RangerJoe
01-20-02, 12:33 AM
that reminds me, one of my friends is gonna give me his old 5 1/4 floppy drive....i need to get that really soon, those are the coolest things ever.....by the way
theres still stores around here the sell 5.25" floppies, lol
in 10 AND 25 packs!! ohh yeah :p
mmm 1.2mb of high density goodness :D
Maddman
01-20-02, 03:05 AM
Originally posted by Wa11y
What is that?! OMG! It's an actual 5 1/4" floppy drive attached to a 486DX2 66MHz!! (I don't know if the drive works or not yet, as I don't have any 5 1/4" floppies to test it with. But I'll try to grab some from my parents or one of my roommates.)
Is that really a tower case or just a simulated one
Dissolved
01-20-02, 03:07 AM
do those dries work on a new pc?
that would be cool to have one modded in my pc :)
rogerdugans
01-20-02, 09:07 AM
Originally posted by Wa11y
Boys and girls, Wally is in love! I have a second DX2 system sitting here, but I need to get some KVM cables so I can hook it up. Prolly throw Linux the second rig, but I need to get a CD-ROM for it. I didn't open up the one I've got windows on, but since the were both gotten from the same location (a company I used to work for), I'm assuming they have the same parts inside. And they seem to, for the most part. They run IDE. The one I have up has a 500MB hard drive (I can back it up onto a CD-R!!), and the second has a 1GB hard drive, but no 5.25" FDD. But like I need one for Linux!
I just need to find a way to get TCP/IP working on the Win 3.11 box. But that's a story for another thread.
TCP/IP for Win3x used to be available as a download from MS, along with a 16 bit Explorer.
Don't know if they still are, do you think anyone who had them might have kept copies?..........................
Beat this - my friend has a 386SX 16Mhz with 2MB RAM and a 5 1/4 FDD. 60MB Hard Disk.
Imagine unreal tournament on that baby :D
Originally posted by Maddman
Is that really a tower case or just a simulated one
Simulated. Looking at it, it seems to be more of an old school desktop case that sits sideways. But all the labels face up like I have it sitting.
Originally posted by PenguinFreak
Beat this - my friend has a 386SX 16Mhz with 2MB RAM and a 5 1/4 FDD. 60MB Hard Disk.
Imagine unreal tournament on that baby :D
No challenge.
Friend has an 8080 still in operation :D
400 kilohertz baby! w00t!
cyberey66
01-20-02, 08:23 PM
Funny, I had a 5-1/2 floppy and windows for workgroups!! I also had a few packs of unopened sony 5-1/2 floppys! You know what is even cooler, i have a 5in 3-1/2 floppy in a compaq deskpro with a 66MHz overdrive CPU. I was going to put in the 5-1/2 drive but I chucked out the ibm ps/1 it was in.
To bad, anyone here ever have an ibm ps/1? It had like some simple OS installed in it's bios. The ps/1 had to be the coolest computer ever, it had the weirdest ram slot ever, it was one slot about one inch big that help up to 4megs of ram.
Yea, I had so much of that stuff, the 6 windows floppies, a whole plastic case of 3.5'' and 5.5'' software floppies. Tons of dos books, and such. To bad I threw out everything except the deskpro, that accually gets used by me.
Originally posted by Dissolved
do those dries work on a new pc?
that would be cool to have one modded in my pc :)
My dad insisted on having one in the computer I built for him. It works fine.
nihili
rogerdugans
01-20-02, 08:31 PM
Originally posted by satan
To bad I threw out everything except the deskpro, that accually gets used by me.
I'm a packrat: except for the stuff that got wrecked in my basement flood I STILL HAVE ALL OF IT!
Most of the stuff on floppy has been copied to cd: Win 3.1, WFW 3.11, MS dos(3.3, 5, 6.0, 6.2) PC-Dos something and more! (archival purposes of course)
If you ever want to see an os FLY put wfw in a new pc!
I ran it on a 450 K6-2 and sheesh! If you could actually DO something, it would gone done quick!
MadMan007
01-20-02, 11:32 PM
Is any of this old hardware worth anything? Cuz I have a bunch of junk like that sitting in boxes in the basement.
Coolest old-school item: TI-80 "computer" along with various game cartridges: Hunt the Wumpus, Parsec, Qbert, others. PLUS the super-cool external storage unit for it that holds up to 6 5.25" floppies. Is that crap worth anything? If I had a digi-cam I'd show you...
beat this: stuff still in my parents' basement that I can remember playing with:
1) The ORIGINAL PONG "console" - it was made by Tandy/RadioShack. Ugly brown box with 2 contollers that have only one axis. One controller has a red button on it and the other has no buttons.
2) TI-80 - I used to program BASIC on that rig and play BurgerTime, Space Invaders, etc. It hooked up to a TV.
3) Windows/286 on 5.25" disks!
4) LeadingEdge 286 IBM clone - I actually hacked it apart just to get the 80mm fan from the PS. I kinda feel bad now, cause I coulda run win286 on it. oh well. I did notice that the board has AMD and intel chips on it. It has a 20MB HD that weighs a ton.
Maddman
01-21-02, 02:36 AM
Originally posted by PenguinFreak
Beat this - my friend has a 386SX 16Mhz with 2MB RAM and a 5 1/4 FDD. 60MB Hard Disk.
Imagine unreal tournament on that baby :D
8086 with 2 5.25" floppies and 512k belongs to one of my friends.
cyberey66
01-21-02, 02:57 AM
commador 64 with tape drive and the huge 5.5 floppy drive literally as big as the system, intelivision 1 and 2, and action max, I think it's called action max, its a shooter game system that uses your VCR. That's it for old stuff I have.
Originally posted by Maddman
8086 with 2 5.25" floppies and 512k belongs to one of my friends.
HA!! I have you all beat!! My very own personal 8088 at a blistering choice of 4 or 10Mhz!!
Anyone got any ideas why 5-1/4" floppies from today won't format on my 8088?? I bought some a few years ago, and they refused to format... WEIRD...
I'll upload pics of my best system :cool: Be prepared to drool...
JigPu
Here's some pics of the actual computer...
JigPu
And now for some benchmarks!! :D :burn:
JigPu
And finaly, system information al la Norton...
JigPu
Ridenow
01-21-02, 01:11 PM
yawn.
Got it...got it(Win 3.11), still sealed in plastic...A 286 that runs @ 16 MHz. Several 386's including an AMD version...Don't have Pong, almosted did, but Dad forgot where the guy who was selling it was. Mom also wanted the 5.25 floppy in her computer, I built it so of course it works. I have a Fujitsu made 8088 processor 2.75MHz, no mobo. I also have 2 Seagate 5.25 full height hard drives. They are the connection that was before IDE that I keep forgetting the name of. I also have *full* size memory ISA card. I think it is 2MB.
Hey, Wa11y, is that an asset tag I see :p
And I thought the P120, FPM SIMMs and 14.4k modem that I have came out of the ark :D
nerd4life
01-21-02, 08:22 PM
hey guys, my parents have two old IBM 36's sittin in mini storage. they're old mini computers that cost a butt load bout 20 years ago. and they weigh a ton. anyways, they both have big ol 8" drives on em. these bad boys look just like 5.25" 's, but bigger and they held 1.2 MB back when 5.25"'s only held 366 or watever it was. if i ever c em ill take a pic for yall. maybe ill pull one out and take the damn thing apart, who knows:)
cyberey66
01-21-02, 08:28 PM
Originally posted by Wa11y
I just need to find a way to get TCP/IP working on the Win 3.11 box. But that's a story for another thread.
If you just want to network, for the 486 I found I just used lan manager to network in dos and win 3.1. That was fun, I need to get them networked again, but my room is already to messy to run cables across it again.
Originally posted by Ridenow
Hey, Wa11y, is that an asset tag I see :p
Yes, but for which company? A fig newton to the first who can tell me!
I was actually bought by a friend a few years ago from the company he worked for at the them. I used to work for them too. He had them in storage, and recently cleaned it out, so I inherited two 486DX2s.
JigPu, the reason you cant format those 5 1/4 disks on your drive is that the 8086's all had 360K floppy drives. The disks you have are probably 1.2meg High Density disks and the 360K drives cant read them and cant format them. If you can find some older low density 5 1/4 disks they should work fine.
foxforcefive
01-22-02, 11:57 AM
Parsec was awesome!! And Hunt the Wumpus. I remember another game where you could Zot something (it would me them disappear).
BL
Originally posted by MadMan007
Is any of this old hardware worth anything? Cuz I have a bunch of junk like that sitting in boxes in the basement.
Coolest old-school item: TI-80 "computer" along with various game cartridges: Hunt the Wumpus, Parsec, Qbert, others. PLUS the super-cool external storage unit for it that holds up to 6 5.25" floppies. Is that crap worth anything? If I had a digi-cam I'd show you...
Originally posted by blakeloring
Parsec was awesome!! And Hunt the Wumpus. I remember another game where you could Zot something (it would me them disappear).
BL
I was over at my parent's house this weekend, as was looking through all their floppies they have. They have the ZORK TRILLOGY!! ALL THREE ZORK GAMES OF 3.5" FLOPPY GOODNESS! My mom was big into Zork back in the day. She made me promise to leave her a copy.
Hey, go check my thread in Games about abandonware. It'd be nice to do a whole bunch of abandonware swapping someplace other than the OC forums (so the OC forums are not held liable in the event any poo hits the fan for whatever). Kinda like an abandonware napster thingy.
h20link
01-22-02, 02:12 PM
lol.......my dad gave me an old compuadd server:
k6 433
850 mb hard drive
32 mb ram
4 pci slots
4 isa slots
1 mb video card
5 1/4 floppy drive
3 in floppy drive
You shouldn't consider a computer "old" unless you need to use an 026 or 029 to do your input;)
Its scary when you think that the PC is probably older than half the guys that post to this board:)
Ridenow
01-22-02, 02:53 PM
Originally posted by Wa11y
Yes, but for which company? A fig newton to the first who can tell me!
I was actually bought by a friend a few years ago from the company he worked for at the them. I used to work for them too. He had them in storage, and recently cleaned it out, so I inherited two 486DX2s.
I can't see. All I can tell is that it is not one of mine, so you are safe from me coming after you. It is not a state tag, nor is it Wang or I-Net.
Originally posted by Ridenow
I can't see. All I can tell is that it is not one of mine, so you are safe from me coming after you. It is not a state tag, nor is it Wang or I-Net.
No fig newton for you!
They tag Wangs now?! Where my Wang tag?!
Yeah, it's for a company I used to work for. They spun our workgroup off into it's own company because they thought we were dead weight. Jokes on them: they tanked, we're good.
Breadfan
01-22-02, 03:27 PM
ahhh the good 'ol days of DOS...you know, I learned ALOT from my commodore64, Texas Instruments TI-94a and old Zenith Data systems 286. Programming BASIC and running around DOS...
The commoddore died long ago, the 286 fell victim to parts gathering (plus it was dying), but the TI-94a is still around...
Seeing those old screenshots of dos sure brings back memories...you konw, I love computers nowadays, but theres something to be said for the old "C:/>"....
A number of years ago I found a copy of Windows 3.0, and installed it ony the 286. I can't quite remember, I know the disks were old 360k disks and some were corrupted from sitting around....I did get it to work (sorta...only 512k of RAM and Windows starting off being a RAM hog, lol). I can't remember, I know I got 16 colors outta it atleast...
Our old 486 is on my wall...lol, atleast the motherboard/cpu. The 20mb haddrive from the 286 is also a wall ornament. The 486 worked ok for a while, ran Win95 pretty well atleast. But, it gave way to an AT pII board and a 300mhz pentiumII. Used the old case...it was great cause I kept the LED display reading "066", lol...
That stuff was alot of fun, I always like running into old stuff like that, things that people are throwing out. Its fun to play with, even if only for a few weeks before you yourself ditch the stuff...
Mike
PS: That reminds me, for the longest time in Win95 and Win98, I used to jump to the command prompt becuase it was just so much easier for me to do certain tasks there...anyway, scandisk in dos was always more effective than scandisk in Windows98...I can remember a few times where it would hang in windows and then I'd go to dos and fix the problem, lol...one reason I didn't like Me was I couldn't "Restart in MSDOS mode" anymore...
Originally posted by Breadfan
That stuff was alot of fun, I always like running into old stuff like that, things that people are throwing out. Its fun to play with, even if only for a few weeks before you yourself ditch the stuff...
Mike
PS: That reminds me, for the longest time in Win95 and Win98, I used to jump to the command prompt becuase it was just so much easier for me to do certain tasks there...anyway, scandisk in dos was always more effective than scandisk in Windows98...I can remember a few times where it would hang in windows and then I'd go to dos and fix the problem, lol...one reason I didn't like Me was I couldn't "Restart in MSDOS mode" anymore...
Actually, I'm now looking for some parts to UPGRADE these systems! I just got an ISA soundblaster (I can't DL the drivers, because Creative seems to suck right now), and CD-ROM that I'll throw in, and see what I can do.
The reason I need the CD-ROM is because I have a whole CD full of old school games that'll work well on the 486DX2. But i needed a CD-ROM to read them.
And I used to jump to DOS prompt ALL the time in Windows 95. Not as much in 98, since it wasn't the same. It was always more or less just a DOS shell. And I hate DOS shell. I love my REAL DOS.
Ridenow
01-22-02, 04:43 PM
Originally posted by Wa11y
No fig newton for you!
They tag Wangs now?! Where my Wang tag?!
Yeah, it's for a company I used to work for. They spun our workgroup off into it's own company because they thought we were dead weight. Jokes on them: they tanked, we're good.
I have a bundle of Wang tags in my desk. :cool: If your computer is a member of one of our domains I can tag it. I is asset manager:rolleyes:
Originally posted by Ridenow
I have a bundle of Wang tags in my desk. :cool: If your computer is a member of one of our domains I can tag it. I is asset manager:rolleyes:
So, what are you saying, you can hang my Wang tag? I don't know if I'm comfortable with that.....
Jeff Bolton
01-22-02, 05:29 PM
i see another inside joke brewing. :rolleyes:
jeff
I still have my first PC a IBM PC XT 8088 with not one but 2 51/4 floppies a AST 6 pack add on card with hold on 640k of ram!! then I upgraded to a 30meg hard drive which was huge at the time and a 300 baud modem. I still have it tucked a way and it worked when I parked the drive. Steve
Originally posted by Spike Spiegel
i see another inside joke brewing. :rolleyes:
jeff
Hey, Ridenow, we oughtta take this Wang tagging thing into the Blue Star Saloon. After all, pants are optional in there.
cyberey66
01-22-02, 06:50 PM
Originally posted by Wa11y
Actually, I'm now looking for some parts to UPGRADE these systems! I just got an ISA soundblaster
Sadly I was still using that on my current sys until recently. Well, it worked great excect after NT 4 it can't be used without very bad clicking noises. So I temporarly upgraded to the pci version, until I can buy a desent soundcard. Well, now my deskpro has an upgrade coming to it.
Hey I have a TI-83+ calc, that count for anything? It's not old but I rule basic on it. :D
Optimus2575
01-23-02, 12:18 PM
i still have my 486DX2 50mhz with 5 1/4 floppy and diskette drive:D
BGPatterson
07-06-03, 11:42 PM
Originally posted by Ridenow
yawn.
Got it...got it(Win 3.11), still sealed in plastic...A 286 that runs @ 16 MHz. Several 386's including an AMD version...Don't have Pong, almosted did, but Dad forgot where the guy who was selling it was. Mom also wanted the 5.25 floppy in her computer, I built it so of course it works. I have a Fujitsu made 8088 processor 2.75MHz, no mobo. I also have 2 Seagate 5.25 full height hard drives. They are the connection that was before IDE that I keep forgetting the name of. I also have *full* size memory ISA card. I think it is 2MB.
Hey, Wa11y, is that an asset tag I see :p
My old '286 had ESDI disks, i think that came before IDE drives.
For some reason every time I think about 5 1/4" floppy disks it reminds me of Zork.:rolleyes:
FireMogle
07-07-03, 12:51 AM
...the thead, once thought to be extinct, rises out of obscurity not only alive, but thriving...
...And I have since installed a 5 1/4" in my main system...
JigPu
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