December 30, 2008

semi antique

Kids grew up with computers, mention they miss playing some of the old DOS games. Finally got around to fixing up a antique, or rather a semi-antique.

It's an old Dell, a PII-450 with 128M RAM, pitiful by today's standards. It sits in a corner of the patio room doing web server duty, Windows XP and Xitami. I have four physical drives in the case: primary IDE has a 2 and 20 Gig drives, the secondary has a 7 and an 8. The system boots XP off the 2 gig, runs my Xitami server off the 20 gig.

Reboot, hit F2 to configure the hardware, tell the box that the drives on the primary don't exist. It then boots off the secondary controller:

The master on the secondary controller boots up DOS 6.21! The two drives are sliced into eight 1.5 to 2 gig partitions, which is the most DOS 6.21 will handle. Loaded Windows for Workgroups on as well. Windows for Workgroups will join the network as soon as I can locate drivers for the on-board Ethernet; or a card that I can configure WFW to handle. Meanwhile, if you want to get out on the net you simply:

reboot, hit F2 and tell the box that it does have drives on the primary controller and you return to the 21st century.

Posted by Paladin at December 30, 2008 09:34 PM
Comments

Ooh! Do you have the old game with the gorillas on the buildings? It would tell you the windspeed, and you would type in the angle and strength of your throw, and your gorilla would throw a banana at the computer's gorilla. I loved that one!

Posted by: Helena at January 2, 2009 11:15 AM