Subj : Re: Home Lab
To   : Gamgee
From : Moondog
Date : Thu May 14 2020 01:39:00

  Re: Re: Home Lab
  By: Gamgee to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed May 13 2020 01:10 pm

 > -=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Paulie420 <=-
 > 
 >  Pa> For my linux box, I just use DOSBOX and go... its too easy to have an
 >  Pa> 'app' that does it all.
 > 
 >  pF> I've wanted a DOS box for some time now, but DOSBOX in a full
 >  pF> screen does enough to make me not need physical hardware. Being
 >  pF> able to emulate all of the hardware of the time, including an
 >  pF> NE2000 card - then being able to emulate a serial port with a TCP
 >  pF> port to use old COMM apps with telnet BBSes is pretty neat.
 > 
 > Not that I'm actually arguing the point here..., but wouldn't it
 > be even cooler to have the actual hardware doing that?  :-)
 > 
 > Haven't looked lately, but that stuff is pretty pricey these days
 > on eBay, etc...  (proud owner of a working 486 w/ 2 serial ports
 > here).  ;-)
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > ... Potted meat: all the other stuff too vile for hot dogs.

I'm wondering how the early Pentium hardware market will bear in a couple of
years.  the pc recycling guys get more money recycling first and second gen
Pentium board and cpu's due to the high gold content.

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