My advice would be to take a chill pill, before reading...

Twiggy

In over the past few days, my father and I had a father son project, where I bought a plywood board and one long 2x2 and we turned it into a computer desk, through cutting, staining, screwing etc.

Last week, I ordered 4 100mb zip disks for my zip drive, PC-DOS 6.1, Windows 3.1 on both 3.5 and 5.25. They came in today.

Right now the T2100 is setup however on Thursday when I buy that 486 desktop, it will be there instead.

I guess this is porn for us... :twisted:















So it seems the 486 desktop machine will have a good home, the proper software for it, and a setting with things from around it's time.

TLAR-EJ

I'm planning to do the same thing with a couple older machines running Win XP.

Come to think of it, I've got an old machine with AMD processor that would be right at home with Win 95...

I like projects like that.

EJ

thinkpadman

It's nice that you're doing this with your dad - not something I got to do.

I need to do something like this in the shed - my spare bedroom which is cluttered with computer crap won't be so "spare" in a few months.

Next you'll need to find some old school beige speakers to plug into the 486.

Twiggy

I've already got old speakers.

pcgeek

Cool project. I am a little surprised that you actually bought Windows 3.1 and PC-DOS instead of simply downloading it from WinWorld.

Twiggy

pcgeek wrote:

Cool project. I am a little surprised that you actually bought Windows 3.1 and PC-DOS instead of simply downloading it from WinWorld.

I've downloaded it before, but still nothing beats a boxed complete copy in good condition.