[mdlug] Found a PS1 for sale and it's not a console

[Jeff Hanson]

This is your chance to relive that 486 experience.  The slowest system I
ever installed Linux on was a Cyrix 6x86-P166.  With a PCI sound card it
could just barely play a 24Kbps MP3 stream.

I had a bunch of 3.5 floppies, mostly FAT16.  Every few years I would go
through them and about half were unreadable.  I had a few Apple II 5.25
floppies from my high school days that I tried to get the data off of.
Most of them had failed also.  I still have a bunch of C64 floppies that
someone gave me but I have nothing that can read them.



On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 8:28 AM, David Lee Lambert <davidl at lmert.com> wrote:

> I owned a PS/1, still have a stack of about 30 floppies that could have
> been used to reinstall the OS (Windows 3.1; I may have installed Windows
> for Workgroups and/or Windows 95 on it later). Originally had a 5¼" floppy
> drive and a 3½" floppy drive, one combined device in a 5¼" drive bay. The
> CPU was a 486.
>
> I may have tried to install Linux at some point, I also used it as a Samba
> client, an SSHv1 client, a Telnet client, and running some free but not
> open-source X Windows server with a Linux server I owned at the same time.
>
> Eventually I submitted the case and motherboard to electronics recycling
> after the motherboard exhibited semiregular bus errors and the hard-drive
> had a lot of bad sectors.  I pulled out the 16-bit modem and 16-bit network
> card, but didn't have any othr motherboards that would take them.
>
> The monitor was SVGA, but that burned out around 2006 or 2008. It didn't
> support very high resolution, either.
>
> On 10/11/2014 08:47 PM, Jeff Hanson wrote:
>
>> Rare item.  The first IBM PC I ever used was PS/2 model 30.
>> http://nmi.craigslist.org/sys/4709066251.html
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