looking4awayout wrote:brostenen wrote:There are ways around that. USB-to-Pata dongles, so you can connect old harddrives to a modern computer. Or usb floppy drives. Usb cd burner and a CD-RW disk. CF card reader and CF-to-IDE in your retro machine.
Lots of ways to transfer stuff. Just be glad you do not have to set up a stock Amiga 600 (1mb Ram), KickStart 37.300, with no data on the harddrive, and not having any workbench disks.
That is a really tricky task...
I don't need all those things. I'm setting up my Pentium 3 to be usable as an everyday system and I'm actually succeeding at the task. It's however frustrating to find out that only two out of ten 512MB PC133 sticks are working without errors.
At the moment I run the system with the main WD Velociraptor hooked to a SATA to IDE adapter, and the data one to a non bootable VIA VT6412 SATA RAID controller. Now if there is a bootable PCI controller compatible with the Velociraptor, I would have a very fast Pentium 3 machine, even though it's already very fast and usable as it is now. A fast hard drive and graphics card does really make a difference.
Yup... Thats were we all, are different. 😀 😀
Personally I need my Amiga/C64/AT/ATX stuff. It was part of my childhood. So for me, 80's computers are a normal thing wich I have seen, used and seen others use back when it all was the new wild high end stuff.
Yeahh... These days I realise, that it is not going to be long time, untill I can sit with another person and talk about those darn teenagers that know nothing. And tell them that back in my days, we did it the hard way, by actually writing commands and we had to walk one hour in bare feets, through the wet potato field, in order to buy a game.
Got off my lawn you teenagers, I am enjoying my cold limonade here. 🤣 (while I put my fake teeth in)
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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