Re: 286 + below and MFM/ST506

I had a Zenith 286 "laptop" that I managed to get ELKS running on - it
was pretty straight-forward. It's a shame I don't still have it,
otherwise I'd send it your way. I got it from Salvation Army, and after
playing with it and having it sit in the closet for a while, that's
where it went back to. Most of what you find there (and Value Village,
et al) is Packard Bell and Gateway junk, but occasionally you can come
across a 'golden oldie'.

Contiki looks interesting too - it's pretty amazing what they manage to
do with so little.

Justin

Royce Williams wrote:

>Grant Stockly wrote:
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>>I'm interested in old computer hardware. I'd like to put together an old
>>system, 286 and below. 8088 and 8086 would be fine.
>>
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>Wow -- I thought I was the only one. :) I've still got a Compaq Deskpro
>8088, 640K RAM, 10G Winchester drive, 5 1/4 360K floppy. It's got
>Compaq DOS 3.3 on it and was running at last power-up (perhaps a year
>ago).
>
>What OS are you going to run on it? I was very interested in ELKS
>(http://elks.sourceforge.net/), but it looks like Alan Cox and friends
>haven't worked on it since 2003. 0.1.2 booted fine on my Deskpro.
>There's also a German Contiki port for x86 at
>http://www.mbernstein.de/contiki/ , but I've never tried it.
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>>I'd also like any old ST506, sometimes called MFM, drives/controllers that
>>someone doesn't want.
>>
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>The Compaq's got one; if you need a system to swap parts to see what's
>working, I could hire someone to help me forklift it into my car and
>bring it on a Friday. :)
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>>Anyone have any leads? Someone must have held on to some old stuff to keep
>>it out of the crusher!
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>Your best bet may be to hit the folks who still have them in their
>closets and haven't really caught on to just how antiquated they
>are -- casual users. You might hit up the Anchorage Freecycle and/or
>Craigslist areas -- you'll get a cross-section of people that way,
>which might improve your odds.
>
>Sorry I don't have any other leads for you. Let me/us know what you
>find out.
>
>-royce
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