[shiv]

Today I've found an orginally packed MS-DOS smelling with that fresh new smell, packed in the original foil with 4 original 1,44 floppy disks and certficate of athenticity. Now it's my motivation to build a PC which will be able to handle that natively. This propably means for me finding a very old hardware like Intel 486 DX 2 processor

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[kaloonzu]

I'm surprised that the stuff hasn't turned into toxic waste yet....that **** is OLD.

[shiv]

Installed this old-school thingie on Virtual machine. Works perfect!

[Nuke]

ive mostly been using freedos for all my retro computing needs

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Got 2 or 3 sets of those living in my garage along with a bunch of Win 95/98 unopened CD's  Still have a Pentium 100 running dos 6.22.  Any P2 will definitely run it.  P3's start getting iffy.  P4's probably not very well.  A Core2Quad will even work with it if it has IDE drives.  I have a boot floppy with network drivers I use to do hard drive images.  Basically you get less and less memory out of the 640k until you just can't run anything except the drivers even with something like QEMM. 

[Nuke]

i had a cool little freedos setup which was pretty awesome, i used an old comp as an mpxplay media center, it was also possible to move songs to my rockboxed ipod from the dos prompt and read ntfs drives with various utilities.

[shiv]

i had a cool little freedos setup which was pretty awesome, i used an old comp as an mpxplay media center, it was also possible to move songs to my rockboxed ipod from the dos prompt and read ntfs drives with various utilities.

Woah. Cool. I need to construct my own old computer then

[watsisname]

Holy crap.  I just nostalgia'd all over myself.

[Kosh]

1,44 floppy disks

I don't remember floppies being in that size......

This propably means for me finding a very old hardware like Intel 486 DX 2 processor Big grin

Where can you find hardware like that? The PC version of the 486 went out of production more than a decade ago......

[headdie]

1.44 mb was the standard capacity of floppys when CD took over (can still remember driving back with dad from a computer fair in Worksop with out first 2X CD drive in about some where around 92-94 just so we could play transport tycoon lol

[MP-Ryan]

Once upon a time, I had Windows 95 packaged as a box of 50+ floppy disks.  Not a word of a lie, it was incredible.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Still have a set around somewhere.  A lot of people still didn't have CD drives when 95 was released. 

[Mongoose]

Still have a set around somewhere.  A lot of people still didn't have CD drives when 95 was released. 

Then Myst came out and forced everyone to get them.

[Goober5000]

Then Myst came out and forced everyone to get them.

No, that was The 7th Guest.  It came out one year before Myst.

EDIT: Though you could say that Myst accelerated the trend.

[headdie]

Once upon a time, I had Windows 95 packaged as a box of 50+ floppy disks.  Not a word of a lie, it was incredible.

I remember my mate playing floppy disk version of B-17 on his atari, lost track of how often he had to swap disks lol

any one remember cassette tapes?  Commodore or earlier the Toshiba MSX?

[Mongoose]

Then Myst came out and forced everyone to get them.

No, that was The 7th Guest.   It came out one year before Myst.

EDIT: Though you could say that Myst accelerated the trend.

Fair enough, though Myst definitely helped drive the trend, as it wound up being the best-selling PC game ever until The Sims came along.

[shiv]

This propably means for me finding a very old hardware like Intel 486 DX 2 processor Big grin

Where can you find hardware like that? The PC version of the 486 went out of production more than a decade ago......

You can easily find 486 computers on services like Ebay...