Ancient Tech

Just had this baby gifted to me because its pretty much fucking useless. Any ideas on what to do with this whopping 166mhz of single-core processing power?

Also, ancient tech in general.

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Running anything modern is pointless on such a potato. I've had a similar machine, and I just used it as a riser for a monitor.
I suppose you could run DOS and set up some low usage things.

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I have one of those. Used it to play nethack out and about. Got stares at the airport. Install debian potato on it or something user.

Oh, and have some obligatory kmandla. Dig around for more posts on this. kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/one-week-at-100mhz-paradigm-shifts/

install netbsd

Install Windows 95

install OS/2

it was pretty nice when it was new
it would handle win95 and the slew of applications it supports great, or NT4 if you want a real operating system

pentium-class shit is probably really long in the teeth for a lot of internet things but it will handle the standard productivity stack and probably plenty of old games, you can probably shitpost, surf wikipedia and check email from it too, and of course SSH into things

it'll run ancient lucasarts adventures like indiana jones, secret of monkey island etc

this

openbsd is just as suitable for light-weight systems and is actually maintained properly

Install windows 98, get a pcmcia to Ethernet adapter, shit post on Sup Forums
That's what I do on my 380ed

>166mhz Pentium mmx
>48mb of ram
>2.1gb hdd

It's beautiful

looking at a PC magazine from 1997, IBM offered the 380 lineup as the budget options compared to 2500$+ Toshiba laptops, only the really high end was expensive and it didnt even hit the 2K mark.

>1800$ worth of 2017 money got you a 166mhz pentium in 1997
it almost weirds me out
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nice keyboard

okay guys I got it to boot.
can I install windows 10 on it? I will use it for youtube videos

lol

Hahaha good one. Wait you're joking right

?

It wont be a task intense resource and I'm pretty sure it can handle video playback

Srsly though, install lubuntu or puppy linux.

It would literally take a year to install, and that's if the installer would even run in the first place. How much RAM do you have?

It says 16gb of ram and a 20gb hdd

I was thinking to run a external hard drive for it

lubuntu wont even run on this, this era of hardware is under 128mb of ram, most stuff from this time wont even support over 80mb of ram
and definitely not video playback, especially not streaming on the internet
nor windows 10 at all
i love the keyboard on it, its a linear mechanical switch, its a fantastic layout and oh my god is it comfortable on my fingers
after using something like this, chiclet keyboard are physically painful, my cheapie logitech board is ok but definitely lackluster
if its got a 166mhz pentium MMX its more likely 16mb of ram and a 2.0gb hdd

> 16 GB RAM

You mean MB lol.

Win10 minimum system reqs:
1 GHZ
1 GB RAM
16 GB drive

fuck you Sup Forums, rotating my pictures and shit
i thought it was just my iphone, but when i got an LG it did the same shit

Install win98 se, use it to play old windows/dos games 16bit.

that's not even expensive for a laptop really, the kind of higher-end shit we gawk at today in the $1,500-$2,500 range used to hit $6,000 easily, $2,000-$2,500 was typical.

all for something hopelessly outclassed within a year or even a few months after rolling off the assembly line

So? I can still overclock it right? Use an external drive as virtual ram and that's it

I'm confused which one is OP

The guy posting the 380ED (me) is not OP
I just happen to have a laptop from the same year.

For anyone who wants them because i fucking hate my phones washed out camera, i borrowed my sisters nicer Nikon and got some decent pictures of it.
theyre all here, theyre too big for Sup Forums
imgur.com/a/pguQj
98SE wont run on 48mb of ram, well it would run just extremely poorly, regular 98 is just fine

See how fast it goes into the garbage bin.

>war is heck

wai u do dis? :(

i've run damn-small-linux on similar hardware with ok results

like it won't do youtube, but you can torrent mp3s and shitpost on chans

Install Kolibri OS. It runs on only 8MB of RAM and has DosBox built in.

>Kolibri OS
what the fuck
how

Looks like bullshit. Nonetheless, the entire image with all the bells and whistles is 63.5MB. It's pretty advanced for being written in ASM.

their website says it can be booted from a 1.44mb floppy disk
i gotta try this shit

Get the floppy drive for this tomorrow, hoping it works okay seeing how the first failed after running it up once.

What's that on the table, next to the laptop? Looks interesting.

It's worth considering that the average pay back then was something like $30 an hour in today's money.

Its my little HP DC7700 ultra slim
cheapie little shitbox i bought when my gaming pc died

i did some upgrades to it too
>2.66ghz core2duo e6700
>3gb of ddr2
>160gb hdd
>1gb evga gt710
of course windows xp still
it works fine for 720p games that i play, CS:GO, Terraria, Hotline Miami 1 and 2, Runescape 3 and even Skyrim

Install Win98SE on it and go play some DOS titles.

Also since this is the old computer thread, I've got this Compaq Deskpro 6000 and I'm really itching to drop a 200 MHz MMX and some kinda Voodoo in it for those early 3D games. The problem is that I have no idea if the mobo actually supports the lower voltages the MMX's require, and finding info on these old proprietary systems is amazingly difficult. Any ideas or clues? There's theoretically the Overdrive MMX which is designed to be a drop-in replacement for 3.3V only systems, but the availability and pricing on those things is just complete insanity.

mandatory shilling for the best legacy C compiler, it was used to compile old vidya github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2

Forgot to add, I know there's a version of the system that did ship with a MMX processor, but I have no idea whether the system board is the same or not and trying to find the part numbers these days is just an exercise in frustration. And just for extra fun, the 6000 also came as a surprisingly similar Pentium Pro variant to further stir the confusion.

Did some digging and of course the MMX variant had a different SKU for the system board. Fuck.

Oh well, guess I'll keep that thing as a DOS machine for now and keep on the lookout for a Pentium II (or even III) system for those 3D-accelerated games. Still needs a quicker video card though, the Matrox suffers from visible jerkiness in Jazz Jackrabbit and the occasional edge case.

these are nice user
most of the pics online of the older thinkpads are just grainy pics of dented up pieces of shit

Download Slackware 96 and install it.