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Resurrecting a Legacy X86 PC..
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<blockquote data-quote="davemurgtroyd" data-source="post: 1013080" data-attributes="member: 319227"><p>[USER=325666]@Vipersan[/USER] - you've caught the "retro virus" - welcome to the club.</p><p></p><p>I still have my first PC - an 8086 Sinclair PC200 - Dos 3.3 and GEM gui, 3.5" 720k floppy, no HDD, two external floppies 3.5" and 5.25", two 8 bit ISA slots and also had TV out as well as monitor in a case similar to an Amiga 1200 - I'm tempted to fit nn external HDD to an isa ide card nd try it out with Windows 3 (which apparently will work on an 8086). I also have the first PC I ever built a 200 MHz Pebtium 2. In the shed I have over 2 dozen working (when put away) PCs desktops and towers with processors ranging from 333mHz Pentiums to 1000 MHz Pentium 4s, 2 working VGA monitors and a dozen or more large boxes of parts ( cards, memory chips, AT keyboards, CPUs and heatsinks)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davemurgtroyd, post: 1013080, member: 319227"] [USER=325666]@Vipersan[/USER] - you've caught the "retro virus" - welcome to the club. I still have my first PC - an 8086 Sinclair PC200 - Dos 3.3 and GEM gui, 3.5" 720k floppy, no HDD, two external floppies 3.5" and 5.25", two 8 bit ISA slots and also had TV out as well as monitor in a case similar to an Amiga 1200 - I'm tempted to fit nn external HDD to an isa ide card nd try it out with Windows 3 (which apparently will work on an 8086). I also have the first PC I ever built a 200 MHz Pebtium 2. In the shed I have over 2 dozen working (when put away) PCs desktops and towers with processors ranging from 333mHz Pentiums to 1000 MHz Pentium 4s, 2 working VGA monitors and a dozen or more large boxes of parts ( cards, memory chips, AT keyboards, CPUs and heatsinks) [/QUOTE]
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