hi all!

i'm typing this at 2400 baud on a windows 95 based PC in 2024..

anyone else using old hardware for fun?

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Hello Stan,

01 Nov 24 20:56, you wrote to All:

i'm typing this at 2400 baud on a windows 95 based PC in 2024..

anyone else using old hardware for fun?

sure we do. i have a freshly installed win95, not yet set up my modem on that, but i have several 386-486-pentium machines serving (from dos to win98 and some old debians on the 386s).

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Hello Daniel!

02 Nov 24 21:00, you wrote to Stan Hosdar:

sure we do. i have a freshly installed win95, not yet set up my modem
on that, but i have several 386-486-pentium machines serving (from dos
to win98 and some old debians on the 386s).

Have one point on Freedos 1.3 RC4 using Waterloo TCP/IP and binkd 1.1a. (I know, it is not "true" tcp/ip). Wondering if ipv6 can be used in that way.

Karel

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Hello Stan,

i'm typing this at 2400 baud on a windows 95 based PC in 2024..
anyone else using old hardware for fun?

Hi Stan, I have an old computer (CPU Pentium 75 MHz, 16 MB RAM, HDD 5.1 GB). From May to November of this year, win95osr2 was installed on it, but I recently installed FreeDOS 1.3. The Internet connection is via MTCP (with RTSPKT network card packet drivers). The Links browser & Multimail 0.52 is also installed.

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hi all!

i'm typing this at 2400 baud on a windows 95 based PC in 2024..

anyone else using old hardware for fun?

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XP isn't really old, but the XP box is next to a 486DX33 VESA BUS box I ain't turned on fer years.

Also have a C=64 that's not been used lately either.
Ed
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Re: hello from 2024
By: Stan Hosdar to All on Fri Nov 01 2024 08:56 pm

hi all!

i'm typing this at 2400 baud on a windows 95 based PC in 2024..

anyone else using old hardware for fun?

Hello!

Yep. I have an IBM 486dx2/66 in my back office I use for nostalgic gaming. I went on eBay and bought a US Robotics courier dual standard HST 56k modem too. Big, sexy black beast. Always wanted one when I was a kid, but couldn't afford the "Lamborghini" of modems hehe.

Now it's no problem. So I bought that and an Obihai VoIP bridge so I can use my Google Voice account to activate the POTS jacks in my house. Provides a dial tone so any regular phone device will work over the internet.

Problem is, it introduces some lag. Nobody who didn't use BBSes back in the day would likely notice it, but as I grew up on BBSes I certainly do and it irritated me enough to give up on actual dial up and go back to telnet for BBSing. Ah well!

But at least I still enjoy using the machine for Prince of Persia, 4D Sports Stunt Driving, Space Marines, Dune 2, LHX Attack Chopper, etc :)
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Re: hello from 2024
By: Ken Nischan to Stan Hosdar on Wed Nov 06 2024 07:46 am

PS - I just realized I'm on a Win95 echo lol, so a DOS machine is probably not what the target question was about. I don't have a 95 machine live anymore, but I do have a Win98 VM that I use sometimes. The oldest Windows I have operating on a live machine is XP on a P4 Northwood 3ghz box.

I paid like $2500 for that rig back in the day. The Northwood was a little over $500 itself, and I had a Radeon 9800 Pro and some fancy Soundblaster Audigy with a big breakout box, WD Raptor 36 GB SATA drive. Amuses me to see that same Northwood on eBay for like $10 now lol.

I used to wait on purchases because of stuff like that, figuring in just a little longer it'll drop prices but I've realized if you do that, you'll just wait for all eternity as when the price drops, newer stuff is out now that you'd rather have so you go through the same cycle again :)

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