Picked up a Compaq Presario 4550 on the way home today along with some mystery beige box computer, I have not opened up yet. The Presario boots into a stock install of Windows 95 (the original installation). Outside needs some cleaning, still has the sealed sticker, which by now could be gently …

oeuvre wrote: It sounds like Oracle doesn't care about a lot of their products. It's funny because it's true. God I wish we had less Oracle dependencies at work.

I don't blame anyone using spinning HDDs in their retro builds. But CF cards are way more practical in many ways. The best thing is that with an angle pin connector I can install it directly on the controller without wiring any ugly ribbon cables around Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ …

My retro builds are still in their infancy, so this is current. Laptop (bought used, then upgraded over time) Dell Precision 7510 - Xeon E3-1535M v5 32GB Ram 2TB NVMe + 1TB SATA SSD Nvidia Quadro M2000M with 4GB GDDR5 + Intel HD Graphics 530 4k display Dock with 27in & 24 in Dell displays Media/ …

Cheers to you all here - this is also my introductory post. Once the project(s) below take off, I'll go into more detail and have specific questions Friday at work I started thinking about playing old DOS and Win9x games. Spent the slow Friday afternoon researching a bit and got some sticker shocks …