Sometimes the best surprise is a dead part :P I found a mac Performa 6400/200 in the trash last year but just recently tried to power it up. Naturally it does not show any sign of life when i press power, even though it looks absolutely pristine, barely a speck of dust inside the thing. 5 minutes …

We have a big clean up in my town a few times a year where you can put anything out for pickup and it won't be questioned. All the scavengers are out on the streets on those nights. The scrap metal guys, the antiques guys, the furniture restorers, the old computer guys, the lawn mower and small …

Tetrium wrote: Pics! 😁 LoL, that is ludicrous, i though myself to be a fairly hardcore collector of hardware but you sir deserve an award for this. Im rearranging my storing and also building a secondary computing post in my basement , will try to post some pics eventually.

I found a v3 2000 agp too, in a p3 700 that some friend did not want anymore, naturally i adopted it. Its now living a new life in w98 rig.

Largest hd i found in the trash is 80gb, on one of those p4. Funny how its like 10 times as powerful as the (ultimate machine) in the tv show from 1998. If i could travel back in time, i could sell it for a few millions at least, i guess.

Yeah, i dont know whats wrong with the people this summer in my city, throwing all their goodies away. I also found two 19 inch LCD monitors on the side of the road, (Optiquest Q9) Turns out they had busted capacitors in their power supply. I soldered in new ones and they both work like friggin new. …

Sweeet!!! I got this to work exactly the way i wanted :D I now have GAG boot manager loading either MsDos, PCdos or freedos from a nice, fast loading graphical interface. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-KOKJGIxO3k8/TkQSXa3C_ZI/AAAAAAAAAH8/CU4yb62NfY0/s1024/P1010303.JPG I tried other free boot …

I found no less than 6 P4 computer on the side of the road this summer, and two athlon xp, 1 mac g3. fastest of these being 2.6 ghz. IN THE GARBAGE.

I did read about it a couple days ago but did not know before that, i was running msdos 5 when i was a kid 😜 Anyway i still want to go for a mutli-boot if i can, if only for the fun of it. Right now im having fun trying to collect non-corrupted floppies...

CF cards uh? Thats a pretty damn good idea! I am talking note for the future!

Kind of pointless? Arguably true, but seems like a fun project to me. I remember for one thing that i used to have a hell of a time constantly tweaking config/autoexec in msdos just to have enough conventional memory to run my stuff. Having a multiple DOS setup could be a pretty cool commodity once …

Hi, im building a retro dos rig for gaming, I have not used a pure dos os since 1997. Really would like to compare a couple of dos versions. Like PCDOS 7 vs freedos vs msdos 6.22 Has anyone successfully booted multiple dos off a single hard drive? With some linux boot manager like grub maybe? Could …