Well, in life in general my flagship project is relocating all my hardware, and myself, and everything else to Nevada.
But on the hardware side, the 486 will always be my primary flagship project. That's my favorite era of hardware, and that's the hardware that I tend to get the most mileage out of stretching back and forward. I'm planning a lot of operating system experiments with the 486, which will get even more rampant once I finally move into a house of my own. Current plans for my 486 are...
Build out an 80GB HDD with Windows XP SP1, I will likely be doing this on my modern system, and doing the activation and everything else like that on the 486 post-install. Many have asked me if I've tried this, a few have done it, I felt it's time I try it myself, see how far I can push this generation, because it seems every time I think I've hit the ceiling on what the 80486 generation is capable of, I find out I'm wrong somehow. I thought you could not run a more recent Firefox on it....well, through Toastytech I can on 95, and Windows 2000 with some tweaks can run some pretty recent Firefox revisions, and while not the fastest thing in the world it was tolerable enough to me, about like surfing on 56K on 8MB of RAM.
Hardware-wise, aside from RH17 drive caddies and more hard disks, I'm pretty much done though, unless I find a Mach32/64VLB or something like that with 2+MB of VRAM capable of 3D or somesuch, or add USB support via an ISA card. About the only thing to work out is why I get parity errors running 128MB of Fast Page Parity RAM in a system that supports both that amount and parity - unless I should try Non-Parity, which I will be doing in the future. But even then, I kind of don't like the performance penalty of having so much RAM. The POST memory count takes for bleegin' ever with that much.
For the most part, my retro PC's are pretty much perfected. Another project is after we get the house,I plan to setup a set of retro-workspaces for each PC so that it can feel like the time period when you are there. I was thinking an early 90's computing space for the 486, late 80's for the 286, and early 80's for the Tandy. Hang up some Ultima maps and maybe some nice looking game posters from the 80's/90's and be done with it, maybe some plastic plants too.
But yeah, the 486, that's my main - when we were moving, I said if I had to sacrifice all but one vintage PC, teh 486 is the one that stays...
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