Rock ‘n’ roll!
Long story, but I ended up with an old Presario (450MHz P3, 224MB RAM) sans HD. I dug into my closet and found an old Maxtor 400MB HD and 5.25 floppy drive, which I installed. HD is blank, and formatted FAT16.
I’m thinking I’ll use it to show the kids what life was like in the dark ages a decade ago. Maybe load up my old copy of Turbo Pascal and let ‘em bang around with that.
God knows I want ‘em to have SOME appreciation for the level of technology that surrounds them.
“Here. You write a program that says “Hello” in yellow letters centered on a dark blue screen, and then I’ll let you play your favorite game on the XP box for an hour.”
I have DOS 5.0 still in the sealed box. I hopping it will be worth something someday like the old Victrola cylinders my dad used for target practice.
I think I still have Win 3.11 for Workgroups laying around gathering dust. ;-)