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Up and running as a dual boot Win95/Slackware 600 Mb disk space 6 Mb ram connected to internet over serial cable @ 2400 bps. I'm making this post on the machine now from the Links browser.
good.
love to collect old hardware. sadly i do not have any 386 machine now - i have my first pc motherboard - 286 12 mhz with 1 mb sipp.
also have 486dx66, and then - pentiumk 133, 166mmx, and 200mmx.
some time ago install win95osr2 on 200mmx - speed is fantastic.
much faster load and shutdown, than my core2duo 2.2 ghz with lot of ram, and nowadays linux.
sometimes i think, where we go?
cpu power and so on all times grow, but we do not need that fantastic power actually, most of time. ok, video / audio recoding, and so on is another deal, but simple OS, web browsing ( fcking webbrowser with 15 -30 open tabs on slack 14.1 eat about 30 - 50% of CPU! for what??? )...
good old days...
and i have my Gravis UltraSound PnP too! midi's, tracker music... demoscene....doom1, doom2, duke nukem 3d, warcraft 2,wing commander series, x-tension, elite...oh my god!
That's pretty cool. I've had to toss most of my retro gear just from lack of space. I did hold on to a Tandy 8088 that had DOS3 in ROM, a tiny daughterboard sound system, and the earliest IDE drive I've ever seen which was a huge clunker mounted on an ISA card (covered the next ISA slot), until just 2 years ago when I moved and it too, had to go.
The oldest unit I still have is also a laptop but it's a Sony P2-430 w/ a Seagate 7200 rpm 60G hdd, 256MB ram, multi-booting FreeDOS, OS/2 Warp4, and Slackware 12.2. It's actually still quite useful. By a considerable margin OS/2 is the fastest on it, but Slackware (naturally) the most "updateable" for browsers and such.
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