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Repost from Reddit: A 1980's Commodore PC, running 24/7 for the last 30 years, has been controlling the heat and a/c for the entire Grand Rapids, Michigan school district. https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3e1woa/a_1980s_commodore_pc_running_247_for_the_last_30/...

This has been bugging me all week. In a nutshell I want to install DOS on my PC/XT's 10 Meg hard drive. FDISK shows a XENIX partition which it cannot delete. The Advanced Diagnostics Disk can do a low level format, but I still haven't wrote a working 5.25" disk (yet). DISKCOPY says...

Anybody have any luck getting Windows 95 to work on QEMU? I can boot into setup and go through the dialog, but when its done copying all the files and time for restart, I get asked to go into "safe mode" and it just hangs ... VMware works for me, but I want win95 on QEMU.

This is a shout out to UNISYS for making such a neat business-class "workstation"!!! Someone even made an entire website *dedicated* to these boxes: http://www.sworks.com/keng/unisys.shtml And a youtube video: http://youtu.be/8gZtEgd_TjU Where's my DOS viruses floppy??? InforWorld article...

XENIX i8086! XENIX i8086! Welcome to XENIX i8086! Its on my XT's hard drive, boots from rootdev=hd(40,0) ... and wow, this is not your boring MS-DOS -- there's a lot more going on with this system, tons of commands to learn. And there's all those eXtended packages to mess with! I'll...

Just unhook the cables, take the screws out and slide it out. ;) My favorite diagram:

What are the general details surrounding how people used to run Xenix on an 8088? - SCO Xenix 86 2.1.3 seemed like a popular version - what kind of media was it distributed on? 5.25" floppys or 3.5"? what size(s)? 360kb? - where would you get it? mailorder? computer shop? in 1983? - how much...

Ahah, its an Accton UK0022: Found the driver for it too (online -- not bundled with win95), loaded it up in the Network control panel, and everything works with static IP settings (DHCP still a no go). Welcome to Internet Explorerer 2.0!

Yes. It throws an error message, "The DHCP client was unable to obtain an IP address ...." The cable is tested/good. I bet it is the IRQ/IO. When the auto-detect add new hardware wizard runs, it sets the IRQ to 3 and I/O address 300-31F. However, the IRQ is shown as *3, meaning there is a...

I am attempting to connect a 486 running win95 to the internet.* The network adapter is a Novel/Anthem NE2000 compatible (from the auto-detect hardware wizard); I'm using the provided Microsoft TCP/IP protocol, and Client for Microsoft Networks. My Network config. panel looks like: Client...

I am attempting to get this 8-bit VGA card working in either a 5150 PC or 5160 XT. It looks similar to the card here: http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/graphics-cards/P-R/PARADISE-SYSTEMS-INC-VGA-PARADISE-OEM-8-VGA.html But mine does not have any DIP switches: The 5150 motherboard settings for...

I'm looking for help on booting a Cisco Content Engine 507 with linux. Here are the machine's specs: cisco content engine 507 pentium 3 600 MHz 256 MB SDRAM 18 GB ultra2 lvd scsi hard drive 16 MB flash memory 2 fastethernet ports 1 console port 1 external scsi lvd port It runs cisco's...

Here's a photo of the back of the WANG VS: It looks like dual-coaxial cables, no? Or "twinax"?

Great stuff! RMENU is pretty easy to setup as a telnet server on a 5150, you just need to have a WATTCP.CFG file, the RMENU package, and load up your packet driver on at least DOS 3.3. The configuration options seem to be a pretty complicated though, and I find myself intensely studying the...

Here's a stupid question, how does one add an avatar / profile picture?