So Friday was a bit of a day for me. Firstly, I saw some other goodies on the library booksale shelf, all 50 cents each:
Getting Connected: The Internet at 56K and Up, Kevin Dowd, 1998
Local and Metropolitan Area networks, William Stallings, 1998
(and now, for the real prize) The IBM PC From The Inside Out - Includes the PC AT, Murray Sargent III, Richard L. Shoemaker, 1986
The book about the IBM PC especially looks really interesting...basically it goes into great depth about the design of the original IBM PCs, quite awesome
Second conquest, I went to the tip shop again. There, waiting for me was a Pentium 233! 96MB of PC100 (1 64MB stick, 1 32), 3.2GB Quantum Fireball, 24x Matsushita CD-ROM drive, 4MB S3 Virge/DX graphics, Sound Blaster 16, Winmodem, Realtek 10/100 ethernet. Also snagged a Windows 98 CD and manual...as much as I hate Windows 98 with a passion, I thought it'd come in handy.
Price? $5 for the lot! And it all works! (though I had to do a bit of work on the PC to get it going..people had been playing around with the innards of it before I got to it, though thankfully nothing's damaged!)
The PC works rather nicely, and its now running Rhapsody DR2! Its actually a full MiniATX board and case...despite the fact that it has connectors for a AT power supply, the board is a full MiniATX board, not a "hybrid" BabyAT/MiniATX board like most of the others I've seen. Quite a neat little machine.
All in all, I think the $6.50 that I spent, I think I did quite well.
Getting Connected: The Internet at 56K and Up, Kevin Dowd, 1998
Local and Metropolitan Area networks, William Stallings, 1998
(and now, for the real prize) The IBM PC From The Inside Out - Includes the PC AT, Murray Sargent III, Richard L. Shoemaker, 1986
The book about the IBM PC especially looks really interesting...basically it goes into great depth about the design of the original IBM PCs, quite awesome
Second conquest, I went to the tip shop again. There, waiting for me was a Pentium 233! 96MB of PC100 (1 64MB stick, 1 32), 3.2GB Quantum Fireball, 24x Matsushita CD-ROM drive, 4MB S3 Virge/DX graphics, Sound Blaster 16, Winmodem, Realtek 10/100 ethernet. Also snagged a Windows 98 CD and manual...as much as I hate Windows 98 with a passion, I thought it'd come in handy.
Price? $5 for the lot! And it all works! (though I had to do a bit of work on the PC to get it going..people had been playing around with the innards of it before I got to it, though thankfully nothing's damaged!)The PC works rather nicely, and its now running Rhapsody DR2!
Its actually a full MiniATX board and case...despite the fact that it has connectors for a AT power supply, the board is a full MiniATX board, not a "hybrid" BabyAT/MiniATX board like most of the others I've seen. Quite a neat little machine. All in all, I think the $6.50 that I spent, I think I did quite well.
