DOS MACHINE I WAN IT

[FamicomFreak]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uAL9AN-tK1A

HELP ME BUILD ONE LIKE THIS!!

[133MHz]

It's a 133MHz Pentium. Hmm 133MHz...

I have huge piles and mountains of old motherboards, processors, memory modules, etc. I can build several 386s and 486s if I wanted to. In fact, yesterday I built a Debian Linux server out of an old Pentium, I'll try to make it a home file server and maybe some FTP to pull my files when I'm away from home .

[FamicomFreak]

WAAAAAAAA THAT ALL SOUNDS TOO KEWL~!!! YOU MUST TEACH ME MASTER!!!!

[UglyJoe]

I've got two dos-boxes (boxen?) sitting in the trunk of my car.  I never took them out when I moved out of my apartment because they weight a ton   

Got a working 5.25" drive in one of them (along with 3.5" drive and cd drive).  Running DOS 6.22 instead of DOS 7 like the guy in the video.  Works great.  I had the two of them networked together (yay IPX network!).

Some older versions of Doom allowed you to hook up three computers and use three monitors to have front/left/right views all at once.  I kinda got it to work.  I mean, it did work, but there was lag on the side monitors.  Still cool to see it in action.  I'm pretty sure that the main computer (center) runs all three games at once, which is why I was getting the lag.  I was going to hook up a faster computer to run as the center, but my classwork got in way 

[133MHz]

I snapped a couple pics (click them to go to Flickr and see bigger versions if you want):

This is my headless Debian server. I'm still struggling to admin it without a GUI ^^U.


Just power and Ethernet connections! I'm going to hide it someplace where the noise won't bother me.


This is one of my junk boxes, both full of old computer parts. I could build several working 386, 486 and Pentiums out of these. There's even an original 20MB hard drive with its special MFM controller card! Old/broken motherboards are an excellent source of parts for repairing newer motherboards, saving them from going to the landfill.


FamicomFreak and everyone else, meet my Backyard Computer :

It runs old DOS and Windows games like a champ, has a wireless card for occasional web surfing and MP3 listening (streamed from my main PC) while I'm out there having some fresh air .

More stuff at my Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/133mhz/

[FamicomFreak]

That's totally awesome!!! I love your DOS Machine!! It looks great. Does it have windows installed on it which version? or just DOS interface?? I will take a photo of the one you are helping me out on.
Nice collection of motherboards too!! I have an ethernet card on my old machine that I bought from new egg for 5 bucks with free shipping so it was a great deal. The problem is that the router is in the living room so I can't have it online all the time but then again my main PC is in the same room as the old PC so I keep them both on to be able to surf the net anytime I want. WA!

[FamicomFreak]

I've got two dos-boxes (boxen?) sitting in the trunk of my car.  I never took them out when I moved out of my apartment because they weight a ton   

Got a working 5.25" drive in one of them (along with 3.5" drive and cd drive).  Running DOS 6.22 instead of DOS 7 like the guy in the video.  Works great.  I had the two of them networked together (yay IPX network!).

Some older versions of Doom allowed you to hook up three computers and use three monitors to have front/left/right views all at once.  I kinda got it to work.  I mean, it did work, but there was lag on the side monitors.  Still cool to see it in action.  I'm pretty sure that the main computer (center) runs all three games at once, which is why I was getting the lag.  I was going to hook up a faster computer to run as the center, but my classwork got in way 

That is awesome I want to hit the local thrift stores to see if I can find a PC with a 5.25" drive and then find those disks! That's just real kewl to see....I want to get me a windows 3.11 machine with it.

[FamicomFreak]

My DOS machine as of now it has installed a virge s3 2mb pci cad(thanks 133mhz), sound blaster 16 ISA card(thanks 133mhz), ethernet pci card(thanks newegg), windows 98se OS, 10gb HD, floopy drive, cd drive 54x, umm crt monitor, and psycho light on top of tower wkekekekekeke....