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brad_k
New Member
Canada
63 Posts |
 Posted - 04 Oct 2003 : 16:12:47
..but a liberation just the same. Today I brought home a 486DX-33 mini-tower from a garage sale for $5.00. It's a butt ugly thing with 3 1/2", 5 1/4", 4x CD-ROM, 2 - 200MB drives, Sound Blaster 16, and 16MB of RAM. It has (horrors!) Windows 3.1 on it with as of yet unknown applications installed. Needless to say, I've swapped out the hard disks and I'm installing Debian on it as I speak. I bought it for a couple of reasons. 1) I have a couple of large IDE disks lying around that I want to make use of and I don't have an IDE based Mac handy. 2) It's a piece of computing history like any other 10yr+ computer. It was unwanted, and certainly underutilized and deserved to be rescued. Who knows, perhaps I can turn it into a 100Gb streaming MP3 server. :-) Besides, I can think of no other forum to which to post of this find. Heh ______________________________________
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 04 Oct 2003 : 16:53:57
All i can say is good luck getting any drives bigger than....about 2 gigs working with it. Pentium 1s often had an 8 gig limit in the BIOS, but i reckon a 486 would have an even smaller limit."**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
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Unknown_K
Full Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 04 Oct 2003 : 18:39:32
You have everything you need to run dos games.If your really bored get a copy of Desqview/x so you can run xclient apps from a mac running a/ux. Thats what I am going to do since I just installed a/ux 3.1 on my q950/aws and have desqv/x on a 386/40 under my desk here. I just need to get my network up to try it.
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brad_k
New Member
Canada
63 Posts |
Posted - 05 Oct 2003 : 16:01:39
Using Maxtor's MaxBlast software, I'm able to get Debian to recognize the 40GB drive, though I'm having a bit of a time getting the NIC recognized. Time to start playing around with IRQ's I guess. This machine really takes me back. I remember buying my first new computer (a 486-SX 25) with my own cash (though I had owned several computers before but with "parent assisted" funding). Ironically, within about 6 months I had traded it with someone for a Mac SE. :-) I later got a job where I built machines just like this one. It was at the very start of the Pentium era. The first Pentium 60/66's where absolute monsters with wicked cooling issues, not to mention the infamous floating point bug. heh
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itsno
Starting Member
France
10 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2003 : 04:26:38
i thought this site was 68k mac ?
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Derekcat
Junior Member
USA
342 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2003 : 10:16:12
itsno; yea this is, but, sometimes people liberate other things [PPCs, and once in a while non-mac stuff!, which I don't belive in… I'd be fine, that is, if it weren't windoz stuff… although this is x86 based, he IS loading Linux on it so… I guess it's kinda ok…If I open my window all the bugs will get in…That's just one more reason to use a Mac!
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 06 Oct 2003 : 10:48:50
It's just that we're the best community out there, so we usually just post alot of stuff here..Official 68k videographer
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dave1212
New Member
Canada
65 Posts |
Posted - 07 Oct 2003 : 13:39:13
As long as you have *nix on it, it's ok.
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 09 Oct 2003 : 10:26:41
Windows is OK in my book, NT4 would run on it, NT 3.5 would run great Official 68k videographer
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stimpee
Starting Member
Netherlands
10 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2003 : 14:01:08
NT4 on a DX33? i dont think so. Even windows 95 struggles. Though on the plus side, it does have 16mb (30pin SIMMS? or 72pin) so that could be maxed out.I've tried to install NT4 on a P133 with 48mb and it was on its knees begging for water and gasping for air. I removed it and installed Redhat and then it could stand up on its own two feet (and run the Quake2 server that I wanted :P) I think $5 is great, just for the parts :)
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2003 : 06:18:57
heh, I ran NT4 on my DX2 (66MHz) just fine, NT 3.51 should run as well though, unless you want to try 95/NT4 or a *nix on it. I ran a linux on my machine, and noted that linux wasn't performing as well, in my opinion, as NT was.  (I also knew how to do more with NT  )Official 68k videographer
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Unknown_K
Full Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2003 : 07:49:43
NT 3.51 reminded me on windows 3.1 but more stable, should run fine on a 486/66 with enoughy memory.
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2003 : 20:21:36
heh, I'm still looking for a copy of 3.5 if anyone happens to have it laying around Official 68k videographer
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Certainly no 68k liberation.....
68k of the Week: kastegir's PowerBook 180.