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SemiHalfling

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4. I fired up my old 95-era desktop the other year

Thu Oct 10, 2019, 03:25 PM

Oct 2019

Just for nostalgia and to play Star Wars Rogue Squadron 3D, further down the line from your generation of hardware and DOS. The CD drive sounded like a hair dryer and my PSU’s capacitors proceeded to literally melt down and go up in smoke after a short while. I forgot about the electrolyte capacitor drama from back then ha. Wish my dad and I had kept his even older hardware over the years.

The BIOS CMOS batteries are probably easy to swap with new CR2032’s, just be careful of the other more fragile component ages and the strain you put on them. Bad caps can also be upgraded or swapped too but I know I can’t really solder yet, my generation grew up with more standardized plug and play components.

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I still have all my home built computers [View all] Baked Potato Oct 2019 OP

Autoexec.bat and config.sys... KatyMan Oct 2019 #1

Oh yeah, I forgot config.sys Baked Potato Oct 2019 #2

You mean that new computers don't have that stuff? I probably need an update! Doodley Oct 2019 #3

Well, non Apple Baked Potato Oct 2019 #5

I fired up my old 95-era desktop the other year SemiHalfling Oct 2019 #4

Yeah, I'm hoping I won't have major problems Baked Potato Oct 2019 #7

Oh I forgot about those SemiHalfling Oct 2019 #9

Yeah, some of those numbers *were* billed darnit ! Baked Potato Oct 2019 #10

Well bless your heart.... AJT Oct 2019 #6

Yep, I've heard it !! Baked Potato Oct 2019 #8

Have about 50 computers, many from the 60s/70s unc70 Oct 2019 #11

Holy moly! That's cool! Baked Potato Oct 2019 #12

Wow, that's quite a collection SemiHalfling Oct 2019 #13

My wife tried to hold me at twelve larger computers for a few years. hunter Oct 2019 #21

I still have my Atari 800XL from the mid-80s, but not TV to connect it to..... lastlib Oct 2019 #14

Oh gosh, yes! Baked Potato Oct 2019 #17

PC World magazine said that that AST Premmia.... lastlib Oct 2019 #18

I remember ASTs Baked Potato Oct 2019 #19

I had Tandy XT, same deal. Was really GLAD to dump it for the AST! lastlib Oct 2019 #20

How about the constant IRQ battles?? MichaelSoE Oct 2019 #15

Oh yeah, I remember Baked Potato Oct 2019 #16