IBM machines don't seem to have a long life cycle in my possesion for some reason. PS/1 and Aptiva have hit the skip in the last 12 months. Salvaged what I could.

I use anything I can get my mits on. I've had great success success with DE220 and Genius ISA nics. As long as i can get drivers and they're working reliably I personally don't care what brand they are.

Thank you for the reference. Certainly worth a crack just for the sake of it. I suspect I'll have to install it on my 486 first then transfer it across if the installer borks.

Won't work, even Cello and NCSA Mosaic already required a Win 3.x running on a 386 in enhanced mode. Better try DOSLynx or maybe Arachne. I did manage to get an early version Mosaic connected using winpkt.com and Trumpnet Winsock 1.1 but the results were less than stella, which is to be expected I …

Bought a parallel port file transfer cable.

Stuff I have but not showing very well or hidden in drawers or the closet.

Here's mine.

Curoius enough the Zenith has Arachne as part of its FCC ID.

A bit more playing around on the 286 shows the arachne executable needs to be be run from within the directory it is setup in otherwise you get a core.exe error. This happens even though that directory is in the path statement in the autoexec.bat. Anyone know why that occurs at all? Does the same …

Another observation is that Bing is more useful than Google on this ol girl as far as a search engine goes.

FWIW even making a post of Vogons is a very trivial exercise. On the Zenith now. In fact Vogons seems to be quite retro freindly in this regard. Good work people:) It's a great resource.

Hi Pete. Got the hub from a thrift shop a few years ago primarily because it had a bnc connector it's quite good for testing old nics. At times I find it easiier just hooking up a !0BaseT connection. Works fine for transfering files and certainly faster than parralel or serial file transfers. Have …

Cheers. Was really just one of those things one has to have a go at just for the hell/fun of it. And to be quite honest didn't take much effort at all. Now i can tick that box off so to speak.

I'll stay with wfw 3.11 and stick Calmira on the 486 in the last pic. For some reason non of the true 32 bit OSs don't seem to like that box now. I suspect a ram issue. Seems really picky with only two slicks in my simm stash actually allowing it to boot. With 64 megs available it's going to have a …

Slow for sure but speed is relative.I'ts certainly not as bad as I thought it'd be and the prompt says you can go and get a coffee.These 286LP plus machines are quite peppy for a 286/12. Need to track down a windows browser for the 486 now, just loaed the 32b tcpip slack on that and it's running …

Hi all. Apologies for waking up an old thread but I thought I'd add to this thread my recent experience with getting a 286 on the internet with Arachne. My 286 system specs are as follows: ZENITH data systems Z-286LP Plus 286/12 cpu 256k vga, IDE, FDD, two com ports and one parallel port 8 megs of …