Re: '90s era PC recommendation.

2018-05-07 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Mon, 7 May 2018 at 05:10, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > I remember my AMD K6-II fondly. I ran a Cyrix 6x86-P166+ for a while as my main PC and it was a lovely machine. Alas, I needed to review one of the last versions of Aldus PageMaker and it wouldn't run on a Cyrix chip -- only on Intel

Re: '90s era PC recommendation.

2018-05-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Grant Taylor > Does anyone have any recommendations for a '90s era PC that has PCI and > ISA slots? I have a bunch of HP machines, which are still in heavy use (although upgraded to Celerons with the PowerLeap iP3/T thingys). Vectra VL6/S8's and VLi8s. I'm very fond of them

Re: '90s era PC recommendation.

2018-05-07 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 05/07/2018 06:28 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > I ran a Cyrix 6x86-P166+ for a while as my main PC and it was a lovely > machine. I think I had a Cyrix CPU in an Acer Aspire that I had years ago. It served me well. Though I didn't do much that would push the system. > But they were goo

Re: '90s era PC recommendation.

2018-05-07 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 05/06/2018 12:18 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > Years ago I had a Compaq desktop that had PCI and EISA slots. I'm trying > to re-acquire it from the friend that it went to. Lo and behold the friend that has the old Compaq desktop agreed to sell it to me. Presumably it's still in workin

Re: '90s era PC recommendation.

2018-05-07 Thread ben via cctalk
On 5/7/2018 10:47 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 05/06/2018 12:18 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: Years ago I had a Compaq desktop that had PCI and EISA slots. I'm trying to re-acquire it from the friend that it went to. Lo and behold the friend that has the old Compaq desktop agree

Re: '90s era PC recommendation.

2018-05-07 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 05/07/2018 01:12 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: Unless you have a old copy of DOS, what OS can you get for the OLD MACHINES? I have multiple copies of older OSs that will run on the machine. DOS / Windows: MS-DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x, Windows NT 3.x, Windows NT 4

R: '90s era PC recommendation.

2018-05-07 Thread Mazzini Alessandro via cctalk
Windows from 1.x up to 98 SE Linux / bsd OS/2 NextStep BeOS likely Novell Netware Likely forgot something -Messaggio originale- Da: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Per conto di ben via cctalk Inviato: lunedì 7 maggio 2018 21:12 A: cctalk@classiccmp.org Oggetto: Re: '90s era

TRS-80s available: Ottawa, ON, Canada

2018-05-07 Thread Mouse via cctalk
A friend and colleage of mine says he has two TRS-80s available, or perhaps very soon to be available, in Ottawa (the capital of Canada). He says he knows very little about them; apparently it's been something like a decade since they were even taken out of the boxes. For further information, I'd

Re: '90s era PC recommendation.

2018-05-07 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Mon, 7 May 2018, ben via cctalk wrote: Unless you have a old copy of DOS, what OS can you get for the OLD MACHINES? MS-DOS will, of course, work for all. Xenix 3.0 (1984?) worked with 8088, 512K RAM, 10MB disk. Microsoft had a license for Unix, since 1978, but NOT for the "Unix" name. By mi

Re: '90s era PC recommendation.

2018-05-07 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
Unless you have a old copy of DOS, what OS can you get for the OLD MACHINES? MS-DOS will, of course, work for all. That should read MS-DOS will, of course, work for all PCs. (for some definition of "PC", that usually means 5150 derived clone) MS-DOS will most certainly NOT work for all OLD MACH

Re: '90s era PC recommendation.

2018-05-07 Thread allison via cctalk
On 05/07/2018 07:38 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > On Mon, 7 May 2018, ben via cctalk wrote: >> Unless you have a old copy of DOS, what OS can you get for the OLD >> MACHINES? > > MS-DOS will, of course, work for all. > > Xenix 3.0 (1984?) worked with 8088, 512K RAM, 10MB disk. > Microsoft had

Re: '90s era PC recommendation.

2018-05-07 Thread Ken Seefried via cctalk
Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations for a '90s era PC that has PCI and > ISA slots? Ideally I'd like to have EISA slots too. ? At least I > think that's what I want. EISA is a nice-to-have, especially if you want to run multiple interfaces (much better irq hand

Re: '90s era PC recommendation.

2018-05-07 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 05/07/2018 07:52 PM, Ken Seefried via cctalk wrote: > Yeah, but didn't the GX (and KX) have some pretty serious bugs until > really late steppings? Same to a lesser extent with the NX. The BX > (and FX) however was very reliable, as I recall. I can only speak for my SuperMicro dual slot-1 P3

HP 3000/37 console

2018-05-07 Thread Mike Loewen via cctalk
Does anyone know if a non-HP terminal will work as the console for a HP 3000 Series 37? The power-on self-test uses ENQ/ACK to speed sense, but the manual also implies that it will sense speed from a . On my 37, the TIC self-test passes up to the point where it talks to the terminal, but

RE: HP 3000/37 console

2018-05-07 Thread Ed Sharpe via cctalk
has to be a hp term. as far as I know Mike or a,3ed party emulator. i imagine a pc running hp terminal software might work. ... walker ritcher quin REFLECTIONS. software might be OK too.. ,ed# Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Monday, May 7, 2018 Mike Loewen via cctalk wrote: Doe