Back to the lab, it's time for the "Nostalgia Tour 2007", this time it's about old software... Remember the oscilloscopes in my last post about the lab? Just below them, there is an small, almost unnoticed, shelf full of interesting stuff... Let's go!
An OLD, boxed Windows 3.1 copy. 6 floppies plus a printer driver floppy, all of them SANE (plus extra original disksets without boxes)
All assembler gurus can scream now like a litte girl
: an ORIGINAL Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM) boxed copy! (includes an HEAVY manual)
Peter Norton was confident about the quality of his antivirus way back in 1996... Now his face no longer appears in any box of its biggest piece of crap known as "antivirus"
Original *cough*pirate*cough* MS Office 4.2 diskset... Unfortunately, disks 17, 20, 22 and 24 were damaged
Don't tell M$ that i was dumping those Win3.1 floppies
(BTW, that box is running a fresh WinMe install). eMule and eBay can bite my shiny metal ass now
There was also a SEALED, boxed MS Works 2.0 copy ($$$!!!), plus lots of spare MSWorks disksets, unfortunately, these were damaged...
BTW: you will need one of these after dumping all those floppies:
Enough software, let's go back to hardware!
Should you ever need a NIC, we may have one or two NE2000-clones over there ;D
A couple of National Semiconductor NICs:
- a RARE EISA "SONIC-T" NIC:
- a more common ISA "AT/LANTIC" NIC (oddly enough, my university is located in an avenue called "Atlantico", "Atlantic" in english ;D). This one seems to be another NE2000 clone, despite the bulky design
We also have some of the finest SCSI adapters made by Adaptec! However, since we don't have SCSI devices, these cards are useless, but they do still get recognized by Windows
Those IBM 1X drives (model IBM CR-563BBZ) resulted not to be IDE drives at all, but they use a custom interface. You will need a SoundBlaster 16 for these babies (luckily for us, we also have the full SB16 driver/software disksets!)
More floppies! 4 sets of SB16 drivers/SW bundles, plus some extra crap... if anyone want a copy of these (for their vintage SB16 units), drop me a PM and i will try to dump these suckers.
Yet another Samsung HD... this one is a SV2002H (SpinPoint V30, 5400 RPM, 20 gigs), a victim of two cruel crimes: a blasted Win2K setup, and after being wiped with HDAT, a WINDOWS MILLENIUM EDITION INSTALL!!!
And that's all the news for this week... Stay tuned!
For the next week, we will have:
- Start of "Project MIZUHO-5"
- Fresh dumps of MASM and other golden oldies
- Fresh Pita-Ten spanish HQ DVDs!
- More random stuff from the lab...
BONUS SHOTS: Kids, don't try this at home!
- A P200MMX designed for Win2K/XP?!?! That's a very cruel joke...
(BTW: that 24 means "24-hour nonstop service certified". Not a single kernel panic since... ever! The perfect NAS for all your needs)
- Testing some DVDs on that box. DON'T EVER TRY THIS AT HOME, unless if you have a SiS 6326 or better card. For best results, run the DVD player (this one was Kaffeine with Xine engine) with "nice -20", and go fullscreen. Audio is OK, but video is choppy, plus the colors are even more delayed! (you must run at fullscreen if you want color, otherwise you will get a grayscale pic plus a very fuxored color layer)