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old 286, what to do with it?

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Reply 40 of 50, by wd

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win286? Isn't big.

Reply 41 of 50, by Amigaz

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Last attempt will be with THESE

If no success this damn machine is going back to the dumpster

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Reply 42 of 50, by F2bnp

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What is this Win286 you're talking about?Windows 1.0?

Reply 43 of 50, by swaaye

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.1x

I never touched Windows until 3.1. What was the point? 😀 I was almost purely DOS, but had a Tandy with Deskmate too (more of a curiosity than anything useful). Windows 3.1 will run on a 286 as well, but not particularly quickly.

Reply 44 of 50, by Amigaz

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Some updates on this thread

I actually got the machine running perfect after washing the motherboard in my dishwasher machine 😎

Running with full 4mb RAM now, Adlib soundcard + Music quest MPU 401 card/Roland CM32L 😁

Not a speed monster but it got good scores in Nortonn sysinfo compared to other 286-12mhz machines but Wing Commander 1 is too much for this oldie 😜

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Reply 46 of 50, by Amigaz

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v0g0ns wrote:

can freedos run in this pc? or just msdos?

That I would like to know too

I just tried EMM286 also..it works but consumes 64k conventional memory 😳

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Reply 47 of 50, by StickByDos

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Amigaz wrote:

I just tried EMM286 also..it works but consumes 64k conventional memory 😳

It's for the page frame, real EMS boards use 64kB between 640kB-1MB

Type win to loose the power of your computer !

Reply 48 of 50, by Amigaz

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StickByDos wrote:
Amigaz wrote:

I just tried EMM286 also..it works but consumes 64k conventional memory 😳

It's for the page frame, real EMS boards use 64kB between 640kB-1MB

Have one of those boards with 8mb RAM on but no free ISA slots for it *waaah* 😖

Damn desktop case, only 3 16bit ISA slots and 2 8bit 😵

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Reply 49 of 50, by Jorpho

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swaaye wrote:

Windows 3.1 will run on a 286 as well, but not particularly quickly.

I thought Windows 3.0 was as far as it went.