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While working on putting an old IBM PC back together, I've been wondering if any of you collect vintage PCs or computers?
The one I am working on has the following in it:
*1981 16Kb-64Kb System Board (Using ROMs off a dead 64Kb-256Kb System Board so I can boot off the hard drive)
*8088 4.77 Mhz CPU
*CGA (Color Graphics Adapter) Original IBM Part
*AST Six Pack Plus with 192Kb of Memory (Total memory 256Kb)
*Floppy Controller (Original IBM Part)
*Everex ST-412 Interface Controller
*Seagate ST-225 20Mb Hard Drive
*IBM Half Height 360Kb 5 1/4" Floppy Drive
Planning on installing MS-DOS 3.30 and old games on this system.
Should be a lot of fun.
Mike
Amazing Mike how far we have come in a relatively short time, that list is mind boggling, I remember when I bought my first Apple Mac and I think it had 8mb of RAM, yesterday I took delivery of a MacBook Pro, and its a sheer joy and so powerful, but there is something really interesting about those old fellas.
~ Dave
Hey Davieeeeee,
Hey, I'm so jealous as you got a Macbook pro as I would love one of them.In fact next month my iBook G4 will be celebrating its 5th birthday and is still goin' strong:)The only upgrade I made to it was to install the Tiger operating system to overwrite the Panther that came with it.Only reason I did this was that my new iphone won't sync up to Panther but will for Tiger.I was amazed Apple still had Tiger available for sale as even that's obsolete.Enjoy your new MacBook Davieeeee:)Cheers
Mark
hi Markie-babes, yeah I had only got as far as Tiger until now, Leopard looks pretty cool at first glance, but its the glass trackpad, solid uni-body and backlit screen that are amazing. Apple have always made lovely products but the new Macbook and Macbook Pro are a real step forward.
The iBook will go on for years yet, I have an old G3 that is maybe 10 years old and it still works fine.
In my line of work I need to keep slap up to date, otherwise the old stuff is just fine.
Have fun bud
~ Dave
Collect? Not on purpose. :)
I have one of those in a box someplace. I hold onto it because it has a few odd letters from my college days and stuff, and I never bothered to transfer the data. I wonder now if it would even spin up properly.
It's good to know that guys like you are out there running this stuff. It gives me hope that if I ever decide to make it a priority, I might actually be able to transfer the data... and walk out with the entire drive contents in my pocket, not even making a dent in the capacity of my thumb drive. It's amazing how things progress.
Unfortunately, Mike, I'm too young to have known these machines first hand, and my parents weren't fond of "prehistoric" informatic. The oldest one in the house is a Pentium 200 (which still works !)
Bye
Vivien
Hi Mike,
Sounds like fun! Reminds me of my old Apple ][ and Apple //e and the whopping 1 megabyte of RAM I stuffed into them. And also a Z80 based CP/M system with dual 8" floppies.
I didn't jump on the "PC" bandwagon until 1993 when I bought an 80386 based PC.
- Oren
Reminds me of a 8088 we had in our office. The hard drive was kind of an open affair and because it was an old clunker, when you first started it each morning you had to "push start" it by giving a little poke at the drive mech. It sounded like a coffee grinder!
The floppy drive pictuced, I aquired along with a IBM 386 machine. The computer is long gone, but for some reason I hung on to this. Maybe because it's unique. Maybe because my wife doesnt know I have it still. I had a bunch of old parts and pieces that I got rid of a couple of years ago, my wife claims I'm a pack rat. She may be right!
Bruce
I have an old 286, approx 20 uears old, that I used to keep various text files and small scale images on. It had an 80MB HD and colud be boosted to work at 20 rather than 16MHz.
It worked fine every day until a few weeks ago, when suddenly it failed to boot.
Any ideas, anyone, about nhow I could get the few files off it that aren't backed up (onto floppies - this one even reads the old 5.25 inch floppies from when floppies really were floppy).
I'd like also to get the old friend working as it was a great piece of kit in its day, running my first version of Pagemaker (4.0) amongst other things.
Good luck to the O/P with your project.