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So i've been slowly working my way through all the computer junk that i have sitting in the computer room and today its the day of the really old stuff 2 x baby AT pentium boards and my 1st PC, my old desktop gateway P90.
It was still partially assembled so plugged everything back in and there was life - of sorts, lights on noone home - pulled all the ide cables, it booted to floppy but no video, swapped PCI slots and hey presto - a dos prompt. Not bad for a machine built in 1994 and one that hasn't been switched on since 2004. The best bit - no bad ram and it had kept time, to the minute! No lithium battery either, it has one of the old school dallas battery chips.
I sense some serious old retro gaming on the horizon, Descent 1 & 2, Mechwarrior 2 + expansion plus whatever else i can find in the software cupboard.
Just need to source a hard drive - shouldn't bee too hard as i have several, install a sound card -- SB16 value ISA FTW
, and install win 98 and reassemble the case.
Anyone else had similar luck with really old hardware?
It was still partially assembled so plugged everything back in and there was life - of sorts, lights on noone home - pulled all the ide cables, it booted to floppy but no video, swapped PCI slots and hey presto - a dos prompt. Not bad for a machine built in 1994 and one that hasn't been switched on since 2004. The best bit - no bad ram and it had kept time, to the minute! No lithium battery either, it has one of the old school dallas battery chips.
I sense some serious old retro gaming on the horizon, Descent 1 & 2, Mechwarrior 2 + expansion plus whatever else i can find in the software cupboard.
Just need to source a hard drive - shouldn't bee too hard as i have several, install a sound card -- SB16 value ISA FTW
, and install win 98 and reassemble the case.Anyone else had similar luck with really old hardware?
