Subj : My new* 486 (*=old)
To   : Ben Collver
From : xbit
Date : Fri Feb 10 2023 10:19:14

  Re: My new* 486 (*=old)
  By: Ben Collver to xbit on Fri Feb 10 2023 10:59 am

 BC> Recently i inherited an IBM PC 330 6577-79T, which has a Pentium
 BC> processor, 200MHz clock, 66MHz bus. It has 32mb EDO memory, 1mb video
 BC> memory, 4gb IDE disk, 3.5" floppy drive, 52x CD-ROM drive dated 2002, PCI
 BC> sound card, PCI modem, and free ISA slots. It has a parallel port, a

This is an amazing system Ben! Does it have the big blue IBM when you first trun it on? Yes, a very nice retro PC with the perfect CPU for old and newer dos games.

 BC> The system has Windows ME. It boots to a BSOD even in safe mode. I cannot
 BC> get it to boot from the CD-ROM and i don't currently have a way to write
 BC> floppy disks nor IDE disks. So i am effectively locked out of the system. 

Very sorry about this. Please keep us posted when you found the solution as this is a great PC.
 
 BC> My first PC was an IBM 5150 with two full-height 5.25" drives and no
 BC> internal disk and it ran DOS 3.x. I no longer have that system. 

Do you wish you still had this one? :)
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