appiah4 wrote: Nice.. Should we maybe have a seperate 'Best Linux Distros for Retro PCs' thread or just discuss that here? Or "Best exotic OS for retro PCs" since many systems mentioned here are not so old actually...

Just installed SCO Open Desktop to emulator. This system runs smoothly on Pentium 66 and 8 megs RAM. But installation is a very long process (more than 40 floppies!). Here's how it look likes: Filename 20190611_113929.png File size 20.12 KiB Views 1747 views

Hello. I need to help with identification of ROMs for IBM hardware I've found long time ago, but I can't find any information on part numbers. The part numbers are: 34F4498 - 34F4499 61X8937 - 61X8938

There was also the MCA P/370 IBM emulation-in-hardware mainframe card set. For more specific tasks and for microprogramming you had Transputer addons, or the multiple i860 compute units. Ofc these ran microprograms or minimalistic software systems, not general purpose OSs. Yes, I've already …

It would have been cool to see the reverse, non-x86 add-on boards for x86 machines. Sadly we seem to use software emulation exclusively now. Technically not really an add-on board (although it's ISA, it was never sold separately, and not sure if it would work in any other machine), but this …

BinaryDemon wrote: It would have been cool to see the reverse, non-x86 add-on boards for x86 machines. Sadly we seem to use software emulation exclusively now. Such peripheral was too. Example of them is IBM Personal/370 (addon card for running System/370 systems on PS/2s).

Grzyb wrote: There were PC compatibility cards for pre-x86 Macintoshes. And before PC cards there was MacCharlie - addon for running DOS software on early Macintoshes which was connected akin to Amiga Sidecar.

Finally traced down my last missing Pentium II CPU model - Pentium II 266 Mhz/66 with Deschutes core for my wall display project. These are apparently much less common than Klamath ones. Now I got 233, 266, 300 MHz Klamath and 266, 300, 333, 350, 400 and 450 MHz Detschutes IMG_0379.jpg IMG_3450 2. …

Quite a good idea to make software counterpart of Bought these (retro) hardware today topic. Well, today I've finally got my recovery set for IBM PC Series. This recovery set is for Select-a-System configuration of 1995 models, the ones with Windows 3.1 - OS/2 Warp dual-boot.

Good news. Finally I've bought that set. Arrival in a month.

I've found a very interesting lot couple days ago - recovery set for IBM PC Series. Moreover, it's recovery for "Select-a-System" configurations (dual-boot with Windows 3.1 and OS/2 Warp). What a pity that I can not buy to share images that disks with the needy ones since it can be shipped only …

Lastly, if you want to see the commercial OS QNX 2 running on your retro computer, you can try the QNX 1989 Demo Disk, you can't do much with it though, but it's still worth a try: qnx1989.jpg qnxdemo1.png qnxdemo3.png qnx1989.zip I've some news on QNX: you can not just boot Demo disk, but install …

akula65 wrote: Additional NEC Ready 9840 CD-ROM Photos: Thank you for help. But... can you make image of last 2 discs (phone book and Merlin) - these are unavailable at Archive.org

Hello. My collection includes two NEC Product Recovery CDs with following part numbers: 171600-01 (1997-07-09) and 171810-01 (1998-03-17), and I need help in identifying NEC models for which these CDs are intended for since I can't find manuals for legacy NEC consumer models (incl. service and …