I fully agree (and CF is good for file transfer). 😀
Plus, flash media such as Compact Flash is available in both big and small capacities.
Good for older auto detection routines.. 😁

brostenen wrote:

Been digging through some info found on google... There should be a controller on the reiser card.

Yea mine doesn't have a cable for it.

I think getting it to have a drive is not really going to happen for me at this time. At least it's not high on the priority list for me. 🤣

Instead I kinda just want to know more along the lines of what games or apps you recommend for it's current specs.

I like snorgs recommendation of Mobygames , it looks neat! But there are A LOT of games there it will take some time to browse them all. 🤣

I wonder if there are any graphics demos like they make for old consoles like atari 2600 and nes.

Without any harddrives, you can't really do anything with a 386.
Might be too fast for XT era games/software.
I remember setting up a 386/486 as a backbone bridge back in 95.

Idk the nes and atari 2600 can do a lot! 🤣

it's the low specs that make it interesting to me I guess. To see what a grand total of 2.44 mb can handle.

emosun wrote:

I wonder if there are any graphics demos like they make for old consoles like atari 2600 and nes.

Sure! Have a look at pouet.net! 😁

emosun wrote:

I think getting it to have a drive is not really going to happen for me at this time. At least it's not high on the priority list for me. 🤣

Aw, okay. But at least please consider trying the serial connection. Comdrive really worked for me back then.
It's so tiny it fits on any floppy and requires little memory.
The cable can be found in any serious computer shop or made by yourself (there's even a simplistic 3-wire version).

brostenen wrote:

Without any harddrives, you can't really do anything with a 386.
Might be too fast for XT era games/software.
I remember setting up a 386/486 as a backbone bridge back in 95.

He has got a 386SX-16 machine, I think. They're almost as fast as a 286-12.
And the IBM AT was already available in the mid-80's, so maybe a few games are still at a playable speed (very old games will run too fast of course).
That backbone thing sounds interesting! Did you bridge different networks types that way (like netware and tcp/ip or little big lan) ?

Jo22 wrote:

That backbone thing sounds interesting! Did you bridge different networks types that way (like netware and tcp/ip or little big lan) ?

Yeah.... It was a real special thing back then, and I have never ever come across a same situation since.
I think it is really old outdated network technology by now.

It was one of those thick yellow cables, on wich you would "shoot in" some connector with a spike (or was it two spikes)
Then you would have this basic machine, with two network cards, each with a boot rom, and a boot-floppy.
One of the cards would be connected to this yellow cable, by using the 15-pin connector on the first netcard.
The second netcard, would go straight into a router, or a switch. I can't remember how and what it was.
The software setup, was managed by the sys-admin, that had 100% charge of the VAX system too.
Actually. He was a BOFH. He frequently visited our classroom, accusing us of downloading porn, while he dropped his
cigarette ash into the laser printer. Yeah.... We got him powned once, making the VAX system generate endless empty
files in a loop on the swap-drive.... (our little revenge, as it cleared the log file in each loop too)

EDIT:
Not a backbone.... It was a thick ethernet cable, using Vampire taps, that we installed. Thick cable never the less.
Really not handy cable, and a bitch to lay out underneath the floor when crawling on both four.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_tap

Anyway...
We used it, to get the fastest possible speed at that time. You could call it the school's "backbone".
We were just told that it was "the backbone" that we connected it to.
And thinking back now, this was a load of bull-crap that we were told by this BOFH.