The trouble is, unless you still have a vintage machine, it's ridiculously hard to find a good one these days, at least if you want one where the mainboard hasn't been half-eaten by a leaking battery. And even then, at 20 years of age they are often prone to hardware conking out.
On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 at 17:56, Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote: > > The mini-boxes are kind of expensive for what you're getting, but might be > worth it for some people. They are physically pretty small, which is nice, > but don't have built-in peripherals like floppy drives, serial/parallel > ports, CD-ROMs, or slots to plug things in. The I/O they do have is probably > suitable for most people, particularly if the main interest is games. > > I still have an old tower computer (350 MHz AMD K6-2 CPU) which is roughly > the same vintage/speed as the mini-boxes, but it does take up a LOT more > space than a mini-box would. But mine has floppies (both 5-1/4 and 3-1/2), > serial and parallel ports, two CD's (one read-only and one read-write), USB > ports, and also some empty ISA and PCI slots for additional expansion (though > both ISA and PCI cards are hard to find these days). I don't turn it on very > often (it doesn't even have its own monitor), but last time I tried it still > worked. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
