I have this vintage pc that I dug up and recently powered on, the hard drive seems to be failing (sector read errors) but I have a bunch of floppy disks i tried running today and it still works as long as it’s running from the floppy and doesn’t need to be installed first.

If you guys are interested, I’ll post it running some things tomorrow. There’s a bunch of things I want to do with it like try to replace the hard drive, get it online, and get a compiler so I can port programs or write new ones for it. Maybe install linux if that’s a possibility on 6MB of RAM.

Image of BIOS

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  • @[email protected]English
    4•6 months ago

    This is the first time I’ve seen a machine with both a 5.25 floppy disk drive and a CD drive. It wasn’t like that stock, was it?

    • @reflectedoddsOP
      4•6 months ago

      I don’t know. I haven’t found any info on its original specs.

      • Nougat
        7•6 months ago

        That’s an aftermarket CD drive, definitely installed long after purchase.

    • Optional
      2•6 months ago

      There’s a single-bay version somewhere, which can be handy sometimes.