Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: > on 8-28-2008 4:15 PM William L. Maltby spake the following: >> > On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:50 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: >> >>> >> <snip> >>> >> > >> >>> >> I have motherboards in my garage older than you! ;-D >>> >> > >> > PIKER! I've mobos still running (when I fire 'em up). Although I'm >> > seriously considering ditching the 386SX with Win 3.11. Don't find any >> > reason to fire it up anymore. >> > >> > Hell, even at my age I've got more memory left than it ever had! :-)) >> > >> >>> >> <snip> >>> >> > >> > I don't think I kept anything lower than a 486. You never know if you might > need it! > One of my projects of the moment is to get rid of all of the old motherboards and systems in my basement. I'm thinking I'll keep one working system/MB that has ISA slots. Not sure which one yet but probably either the Pentium or a K6/2 550Mhz. I've got W2K running in a qemu virtual machine on my current desktop so I'm guessing I can get any older versions of Windows working if I have to. I just can't virtualize an ISA slot if the need arises. A few things hanging around the basement I *won't* part with though as part of this clean up: - A still shrink wrapped copy of Windows/386 (media is 5.25 inch floppies) - A true blue (IBM logo) PC-AT (6 MHz 80286) with a full height 30MB hard drive and 1MB of RAM, DOS 3.3. Also, I've still got at least one punch card from my college days (Ohio State in the late '70s). I usually hang it on my cubicle wall when I'm working a regular gig. Most of the kids have never seen one before. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce