A small rarity from the time when computers were big
During my sysadminism, a lot of all kinds of iron have passed through me, but mostly modern ones. However, the echoes of the harsh 90s that came to my school years, partially plunged me into the already ending golden age of IT, when I got into the hands of a motherboard with a Ti486DLC-40 processor, 8 megabytes of memory, a multi-card, a sound ESS1868, 170 MB megabytes ... and black a white Hewlett Packard monitor, managed by some Oak video card with a huge 256 kilobytes of memory. I got a book on dosu and wrap everything up ...
And 15 years later, while sorting out in the closet, I unexpectedly came across a completely unusual find, which in the very distant 2009 I was presented by one remarkable person ...
This is a mini Carry-1 computer with an AMD Am386SX-33 processor, an IIT 3C87SX-33 coprocessor, a built-in video from Trident with a breathtaking megabyte of memory, and of course, a bottomless 2 megabytes of RAM (which saddened me later on, putting an end to the idea of ​​punching up Windows 95 / 98 / NT).
It looked like this in the original, like this (the photo is not mine):
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And our patient:
Behind:
Inside (missing ISA-herringbone, missing before me):
Nurse:
AMD mighty processor:
His faithful assistant from IIT:
Video:
Bottomless 2 megabytes:
And then I had a free evening: it was decided to pick up a piece and remember those distant times behind a black and white monitor under the buzz of the drive.
The first inclusion showed that the patient is alive, despite the years of oblivion:
It immediately turned out that the computer lacks the details: time did not spare the ISA-herringbone and the hard drive ... Another approach to searching for ancient parts revealed to the light that my first hard drive Quantum Prodrive LPS of 170 megabytes miraculously survived, and suddenly for me an extremely unusual relic that saved me at the beginning of the distant 2000s - a 5-inch 4.3 gigabyte Quantum BigFoot CY hard drive (with a 300 megabyte zone spilled into the bed).
Old Quantum:
Unusual Bigfoot:
To assess the differences:
As it turned out later, the 170-megabyte disk did not survive numerous moves, having met its next inclusion with the horrific sounds of a streak of deformed positioners, which saddened me extremely.
The next sticking point was my lack of a keyboard with an AT interface, but an old PS / 2 keyboard found in the bins of the motherland, a piece from an old AT-PS / 2 adapter and a soldering iron with Google solved the problem.
Next was the non-working native Epson drive, which reads floppy disks once and in general, periodically stops responding to external stimuli. He was promptly replaced by his more modern fellow from mitsumi, which, however, turned out to be larger and did not allow the hard drive to physically fit into the case (although due to the death of a standard-sized screw, this was not so important).
Next, I had to tinker with the creation of a bootable (or as they used to say “system”) diskette with dos. At the time of the current general domination of NT systems, the sys c: a command: for many (including the OS itself), this is an overwhelming spell. I was saved by VirtualBox with MS-DOS 6.22 installed and a floppy disk drive stuck on it. A little later, on a couple of the remaining floppy disks, I uploaded the main distribution of the dos.
And here is the first boot and bios, quite colorful. By the way, in those days it was very fashionable to make colorful multi-colored interfaces: my old 486 even had a separate BIOS option that allowed you to choose interface color schemes. Extremely fun.
As we can see, problem 2000 is irrelevant. Already had time to forget, but in ancient times, the BIOS did not know how to automatically configure the disk and had 46 (in this case) standard disk settings and the 47th version for manual configuration. His and choose, first asking Google to find us the specification of our fossil bigfoot.
reboot and ...
PS: It is clear that “Numeric processor: None” - for some reason, by default, it stands in the BIOS as Absent. After changing to Present, everything returned to its place.
We quickly transfer the most necessary software of the 90s. Unforgettable Commander Norton:
And what does he think of us:
Known utility of those times:
Very fast!
Remember the button to clean the disk in Windows (hurried with a screenshot, about Windows a little later)?
Point “8” is particularly pleased, pay attention to the list of found files:
In order not to bother a dozen diskettes, I uploaded the Windows 3.11 distribution kit to the disk directly and entered setup. My God ... this installer lived to XP!
In the process:
I deliberately kept the old ISA network card with BNC-AUI-Ethernet ports for such a case, but it touched somewhere when moving, so for now the searches will be unsuccessful:
Yes, yes, the serial number, I did not even know about the existence of such a question before Win98.
Go!
I really wanted to play Doom, but 2mb is unfortunately not enough for him.
The next step will be an attempt to connect to the Internet through a com-port, as soon as I get the necessary pieces of hardware. Also now I’m looking for a Linux distribution that can climb 2 megabytes of memory and want to do Qemm and still run doom (can anyone know if qemm can help me?)
Here, while at the moment everything.
And 15 years later, while sorting out in the closet, I unexpectedly came across a completely unusual find, which in the very distant 2009 I was presented by one remarkable person ...
This is a mini Carry-1 computer with an AMD Am386SX-33 processor, an IIT 3C87SX-33 coprocessor, a built-in video from Trident with a breathtaking megabyte of memory, and of course, a bottomless 2 megabytes of RAM (which saddened me later on, putting an end to the idea of ​​punching up Windows 95 / 98 / NT).
It looked like this in the original, like this (the photo is not mine):
')
And our patient:
Behind:
Inside (missing ISA-herringbone, missing before me):
Nurse:
AMD mighty processor:
His faithful assistant from IIT:
Video:
Bottomless 2 megabytes:
And then I had a free evening: it was decided to pick up a piece and remember those distant times behind a black and white monitor under the buzz of the drive.
The first inclusion showed that the patient is alive, despite the years of oblivion:
It immediately turned out that the computer lacks the details: time did not spare the ISA-herringbone and the hard drive ... Another approach to searching for ancient parts revealed to the light that my first hard drive Quantum Prodrive LPS of 170 megabytes miraculously survived, and suddenly for me an extremely unusual relic that saved me at the beginning of the distant 2000s - a 5-inch 4.3 gigabyte Quantum BigFoot CY hard drive (with a 300 megabyte zone spilled into the bed).
Old Quantum:
Unusual Bigfoot:
To assess the differences:
As it turned out later, the 170-megabyte disk did not survive numerous moves, having met its next inclusion with the horrific sounds of a streak of deformed positioners, which saddened me extremely.
The next sticking point was my lack of a keyboard with an AT interface, but an old PS / 2 keyboard found in the bins of the motherland, a piece from an old AT-PS / 2 adapter and a soldering iron with Google solved the problem.
Next was the non-working native Epson drive, which reads floppy disks once and in general, periodically stops responding to external stimuli. He was promptly replaced by his more modern fellow from mitsumi, which, however, turned out to be larger and did not allow the hard drive to physically fit into the case (although due to the death of a standard-sized screw, this was not so important).
Next, I had to tinker with the creation of a bootable (or as they used to say “system”) diskette with dos. At the time of the current general domination of NT systems, the sys c: a command: for many (including the OS itself), this is an overwhelming spell. I was saved by VirtualBox with MS-DOS 6.22 installed and a floppy disk drive stuck on it. A little later, on a couple of the remaining floppy disks, I uploaded the main distribution of the dos.
And here is the first boot and bios, quite colorful. By the way, in those days it was very fashionable to make colorful multi-colored interfaces: my old 486 even had a separate BIOS option that allowed you to choose interface color schemes. Extremely fun.
As we can see, problem 2000 is irrelevant. Already had time to forget, but in ancient times, the BIOS did not know how to automatically configure the disk and had 46 (in this case) standard disk settings and the 47th version for manual configuration. His and choose, first asking Google to find us the specification of our fossil bigfoot.
reboot and ...
PS: It is clear that “Numeric processor: None” - for some reason, by default, it stands in the BIOS as Absent. After changing to Present, everything returned to its place.
We quickly transfer the most necessary software of the 90s. Unforgettable Commander Norton:
And what does he think of us:
Known utility of those times:
Very fast!
Remember the button to clean the disk in Windows (hurried with a screenshot, about Windows a little later)?
Point “8” is particularly pleased, pay attention to the list of found files:
In order not to bother a dozen diskettes, I uploaded the Windows 3.11 distribution kit to the disk directly and entered setup. My God ... this installer lived to XP!
In the process:
I deliberately kept the old ISA network card with BNC-AUI-Ethernet ports for such a case, but it touched somewhere when moving, so for now the searches will be unsuccessful:
Yes, yes, the serial number, I did not even know about the existence of such a question before Win98.
Go!
I really wanted to play Doom, but 2mb is unfortunately not enough for him.
The next step will be an attempt to connect to the Internet through a com-port, as soon as I get the necessary pieces of hardware. Also now I’m looking for a Linux distribution that can climb 2 megabytes of memory and want to do Qemm and still run doom (can anyone know if qemm can help me?)
Here, while at the moment everything.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/367259/
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