Recent content by sean1978

I have been wanting to build a DOS based DAW for years. I don't know why. I finally have started putting it all together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlzcCtm8fko What do you guys think? Suggestions?

this thing sounds pretty awesome! https://youtu.be/cGsIa1Q9Luk

It dawned on me that I can't remember playing any LAN network games older the the original Doom. I remember shopwith having some sort of network mode that nobody could figure out. Does anyone know of any dos LAN games that work on 8086-286 era machines?

I'm looking to upgrade the RAM in my PS/2 model 25/286 from 1MB to 4MB, and I'm not sure what SIMMS to get. I read that they can't use ALL standard SIMM's , but some are know to work. Ideas?

I found this while surfing today and thought you guys might think it's pretty interesting: http://www.rjrprops.com/vintage-computer-props.html

After tooling around on an old Thinkpad 770 I got from a coworker I found a ton of bad sectors on the HDD. I figured I'd try a cheap 16 GB SSD ($35 shipped) from ebay...

Right now if I want to capture anything like that I fire up DOSBOX on my Macbook and record the screen with quicktime. I'd like to make some videos from my old computers. I really don't need anything more than 1024x768 resolution, and I'd like a VGA connector rather than HDMI or DVI. Audio...

So I got this random idea. I have a ISA 16-bit sound card with a CD-ROM interface. Does this work like a regular IDE control, or as a fixed to the size of a CD-ROM IDE Control? Could I not use it for a CF Card? My PS/2 doesn't have onboard IDE control and 500+ MB would be more than enough...

I want to put the original proprietary IBM 20MB HDD back into the PS/2 it came in originally instead of having it in my 25/286. I'm looking for a functional hard drive and IDE interface for my PS2. I'd like an IDE card that has a power cable for the hard drive. I'm not picky about the size...

Pretty cool stuff: source: http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_150.pdf I was basically attempting to figure out what the top of the line hardware was about the time my Pentium 150 was current and ran across this article.

None of the computers in my labs in high school (94-97) had no hard drives. they ran DOS over a network somehow, with multiple mapped network drives. I'd like to figure out how to do this, has anyone else setup a PS/2 to boot over a network? two of the old IBM network cards.

Doing a bit of revisiting of old things to figure out what I want to do on my Pentium 150. 90's issues of CGW are getting me excited: http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_148.pdf That website is loaded with issues going all the way back into the early 80's. Great for researching...

So I bought a set of PC's from craigslist cheap. The older one was what I was interested in. Based on the case I was hoping for something a bit older, but I do want to build a final generation DOS machine and this will fill the bill: The original owner unfortunately (but understandably)...

I'm assuming I just need an ISA HD controller, a CF card, and one of these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/291008485015?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Anything else special that I'm going to need? I'm assuming I'll only be able to use CF cards as HDD's up to a certain...

It may be nothing more than a marketing stunt or hoax from the past, but I found this article while I was researching 286 processors: I'm still looking to see if I can find any additional info. It's interesting at the least. LINK: higher res. I don't know why the upload was resized so...