I have this vintage pc that I dug up and recently powered on, the hard drive seems to be failing (sector read errors) but I have a bunch of floppy disks i tried running today and it still works as long as it’s running from the floppy and doesn’t need to be installed first.

If you guys are interested, I’ll post it running some things tomorrow. There’s a bunch of things I want to do with it like try to replace the hard drive, get it online, and get a compiler so I can port programs or write new ones for it. Maybe install linux if that’s a possibility on 6MB of RAM.

Image of BIOS

Image of directory listing

  • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    2 months ago

    Oh yeah, that’s a real piece of crap you got there. I’m amazed they even started up.

    • reflectedodds@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      2 months ago

      Is it bad? 😂 I don’t know anything about these old machines, but it works and I’ll see how much I can do with it.

      • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
        41·
        2 months ago

        They were terrible PCs built from substandard parts and sold for much more than they were worth

        • reflectedodds@lemmy.worldOP
          4·
          2 months ago

          Ah, I think I did read that somewhere. This one is still kicking though. I dug it out of my brother’s attic last year and finally got around to powering it on.