Installing MS-DOS on a 2017 Gaming PC

Shmee said:
That was pretty fun. Shame he didn't buy a PC speaker before trying all this.
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it's also a shame that with all his experience he thought that the motherboards were what had speakers. every computer I ever remember building the speaker connection was always there and the case was what had the speaker. still it's a fun to know that you can still install ms-dos on a old computer.
 
Since we are in full nostalgia mode, here is the first system I used to learn:

trs80-iii.jpg


And here is an online BASIC emulator:

http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~pphillip/trs80.html
 
painintheworld said:
I've got a mint condition Model 3 and Model 4 in storage at my mother's. We used them in junior high school for a few months. After graduating high school my old computer class teacher gave me the 3 and 4 when she retired.
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I'm debating if i should buy one of those as a souvenir/personal museum.
 
I still have my US Robotics Courier V Everything. That was the ticket back in the day. It sits lonely in my closet. There was a guy by the name of "Crime" that had the settings all dialed for the lowest ping with a modem that was possible.
 
I'm kind of surprised that he didn't throw in a PC Speaker. Even I've got one of those things for troubleshooting purposes.

//Astounded by having some vintage tech that LGR apparently does not
 
Breakdown of my first home self-built PC (in WordPerfect format no less).
Those were the days...

157.50 Intel 486 66 Mhz
273.00 VESA local bus motherboard w/256K cache / 5 yr. warranty
301.35 8 Meg RAM (60ns)
190.05 Orchid Kelvin 64-bit 2 Meg RAM Video card
26.25 Controller (VESA)
64.05 Black Mini Tower
45.15 Black 1.44 Teac floppy drive
18.90 Black Mouse
21.00 Black Keyboard
320.25 528 Meg Conner HD
168.00 Sound Blaster Pro Multi CD
194.25 Black Panasonic double-speed CD Rom Drive
393.75 Black 15-inch digital Monitor (non-interlaced .28 pitch)

$2173.50 TOTAL
 
dugn said:
Breakdown of my first home self-built PC (in WordPerfect format no less).
Those were the days...

157.50 Intel 486 66 Mhz
273.00 VESA local bus motherboard w/256K cache / 5 yr. warranty
301.35 8 Meg RAM (60ns)
190.05 Orchid Kelvin 64-bit 2 Meg RAM Video card
26.25 Controller (VESA)
64.05 Black Mini Tower
45.15 Black 1.44 Teac floppy drive
18.90 Black Mouse
21.00 Black Keyboard
320.25 528 Meg Conner HD
168.00 Sound Blaster Pro Multi CD
194.25 Black Panasonic double-speed CD Rom Drive
393.75 Black 15-inch digital Monitor (non-interlaced .28 pitch)

$2173.50 TOTAL
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Wow you paid way too much for that computer :O 528MB hard drive omg
 
aShrubbery! said:
Manuals? Ya whaaat???
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See, it's hard to fathom to some today, but back then, you paid a LOT of money for your software, and it included a tome like volume filled with dense text. Often manuals for things like DOS and BASIC would come in buckram bound 3 ring binders, which enabled addendums to be added when patches were released.
ibmpcmanuals.jpg
 
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jnemesh said:
See, it's hard to fathom to some today, but back then, you paid a LOT of money for your software, and it included a tome like volume filled with dense text. Often manuals for things like DOS and BASIC would come in buckram bound 3 ring binders, which enabled addendums to be added when patches were released.
ibmpcmanuals.jpg
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Beautiful.
 
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