This morning's fun is attempting to install FreeDOS onto my ancient Toshiba Tecra 530CDT.
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This morning's fun is attempting to install FreeDOS onto my ancient Toshiba Tecra 530CDT. It has (for the time - 1997) a massive 164Mb RAM and a 6Gb disk, so it should work nicely ... #RetroComputing
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This morning's fun is attempting to install FreeDOS onto my ancient Toshiba Tecra 530CDT. It has (for the time - 1997) a massive 164Mb RAM and a 6Gb disk, so it should work nicely ... #RetroComputing
@psychotimmy That is a lot of memory! What CPU does it have? -
This morning's fun is attempting to install FreeDOS onto my ancient Toshiba Tecra 530CDT. It has (for the time - 1997) a massive 164Mb RAM and a 6Gb disk, so it should work nicely ... #RetroComputing
Amazingly all the hardware seems functional - it's probably not been booted in more than a decade. CD drive is whirring away happily and even the floppy drive seems OK.
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@psychotimmy That is a lot of memory! What CPU does it have?
@gmc It's a pentium mmx. It was a computer that I bought for work at CA. You had to pay upfront for it (around £4500 iirc) but they then paid you back over 12 months and when / if you left the company the computer was yours to keep. It had to be as high a spec as possible as I used it for demonstrating Ingres, Jasmine (an OODB) and Opal (a legacy screenscraper and application modernisation tool).
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Amazingly all the hardware seems functional - it's probably not been booted in more than a decade. CD drive is whirring away happily and even the floppy drive seems OK.
This looks encouraging... #RetroComputing
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This looks encouraging... #RetroComputing
Bloody #AI gets everywhere #RetroComputing
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