First post, by domelectronics
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Hello all! I was recommended here by a couple friends, basically I have a small computer shop out of my basement, and have worked on all sorts of systems, old and new ect ect.. I have all walks of life down here such as a Pentium Pro Compaq Proliant, 386, 486dx2, Tandy 64 all the way up to big Xeon monsters (My favorite) like my T7500 and Z600.
Anyways, I was at my local scrapper\supplier and saw this beauty on the bottom of the garbage skid, so I pulled it out and took it home with me. It had a 360k floppy and a Seagate St251 MFM drive inside (which scared the living crap out of me on startup, later would find out that its apparently normal to make those noises). Inside the case itself was a lonely Winchester MFM controller card.
I never have had anything this old, its got the Intel 08286 10MHZ chip and 640k RAM. I tried putting a archaic Adaptec ISA SCSI card with a macintosh SCSI drive attached but with no luck (working but driver issue). Luckily a friend hooked me up many months later with a nice IDE card, and so I dropped a WD Caviar drive in, played around with the cylinder settings and had a working hard disk 6 months later!
Now, I have finally reached the operating point with this guy, and it reminds me so much of my childhood computer ( I was born 1995 but had something like this as a young child, playing f19 stealth fighter and armour-geddon on it daily)
I literally am at a stump because this thing is older then the internet and Im too young to have had any experience with hardware this old!
I have the dos shell program going good but my C:\ boot drive literally does not even have an autoexec.bat but still runs DOS 6.2...
I would LOVE to have this machine running like a top, I really hope someone can help me out! I am located just north of Toronto Canada but have lots of computer parts I could donate for information and help to get this machine going properly 😀
Here is a list of known specs and some pics:
MOBO: MUltibest MB-286 01
CPU: Intel 08286 10mhz
RAM: 640K soldered in
1024kb video card with VGA.. It says Realtek VGA bios on startup, works A++ so never bothered to research it
Now for stuff I dont know about:
US Robotics 550 6345 modem (or something modem looking)
Creative audio CT2960 sound card. (speaker will click but no sounds come out, need driver methinks)
MB 160E paralell or serial port card. (I want a mouse some day!)
Machine is working good, basically I am looking for help on the audio drivers, and maybe the autoexec.bat to start dosshell and actually do something 😀
Thanks,
Dom