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wsjohn

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    wsjohn reacted to Tr3vor in "Vintage" Computer Thread   
    Well its been a while since I've seen a "vintage" or old PC thread, so Since I got an old computer of mine working, I decided to make a new one. 
    So post your old shit (computers new enough to run Windows XP and later are not allowed, since those are not "old" )
     
     
     
    BEHOLD: the Franken-386
     

     
    I picked this up at a thrift store for $5 a few weeks back, but it had no power cable. So what did I do? take an old shitty thermaltake semi-modular PSU and solder the 5v and ground wires from one of the cables onto the battery terminals of this machine and we have a working 386SX computer  When I'm done using it, I can just unplug its cable from the PSU and stuff it in the battery area.
     
    This little laptop packs a 386SX 20mhz with 2mb of RAM, a 40mb IDE HDD, a 256k VGA adapter and a modem. Of course it has a 640x480 monochrome display but you can hook it up to a monitor and it has excellent CGA emulation. It also runs MS-DOS 3.3
     
    Anyone got some cool old stuff?
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    wsjohn got a reaction from Ashwin in looking for linux os   
    For Ubuntu (Linux in General) there's something called webmin (http://www.webmin.com/)
     
    This acts as a frontend for linux (i use it with my ubuntu server setup) for remote management with my browser.
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    wsjohn got a reaction from rashdanml in Free and/or Open-source Alternatives to many Common Programs   
    I would like to add XBMC as media player http://www.xbmc.org
     
    It's open source, it's cross platform (even on android) and in one word: amazing!!
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