"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
10/12/2016 at 07:25 • Filed to: 286, double speed CD-ROM
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"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
10/12/2016 at 07:25 • Filed to: 286, double speed CD-ROM | 3
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In honor of today being the 286th day of 2016 have some 80286 love. That sweet, sweet DOS.
As an added bonus have a ten minute video of someone rebuilding a 286 with double speed CD-ROM drive that I haven’t bothered watching.
facw
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
10/12/2016 at 08:21 |
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For bonus fun, I don’t think their were any 16 MHz Intel 286s, so if that display is accurate, that is probably one of the ones made under license by AMD (didn’t see a good shot of the processor in the video):
jimz
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
10/12/2016 at 08:56 |
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the first PC we got (well, the 2nd, but it was a replacement for the ComputerLand piece of shit we initially got) was a PC/XT, though re-configured with the then-new dual half-height floppy drives instead of one floppy and a hard drive. looked exactly like this:
Thomas Donohue
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
10/12/2016 at 09:21 |
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IBM AT. Advanced Technology, baby!
My first was the original IBM PC, model 5150 w/the 8088. Two full height floppies. (aftermarket monitor, as the budget was blown on buying an actual IBM). I can remember the heavy duty click keyboard, and the smell of a pack of 10 fresh Maxell DSDD floppies.
Lotus 1-2-3 FTW.
BJ
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
10/12/2016 at 09:28 |
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Our first PC was a 286 with no math co-processor. I coded the game of Life in BASIC from a magazine article - it was so slow you could watch it draw each line in a small small grid.
Ahhh.... The good old days!