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Hi Everyone
Just a quick message to say hello.
My "collection" of older computers, if you can call it a collection, comprises a Toshiba T3200SX (386) and a HP OmniBook 5700CT (Pentium 166 MMX). Oh, and a Sinclair Spectrum +2 which is languishing somewhere in the loft at my parents' house along with all the other stuff I keep promising to clear out.
I bought the T3200SX as a distraction-free writing tool. I didn't have attention issues before ADSL came along, but since always-on Internet came along it has been my productivity nemesis. I owned a T3200SX in the 90s and love the keyboard and orange gas plasma display. The OmniBook was a cheap purchase for my kids to run old educational software on, but they've outgrown it and so I now use it as distraction-free PC number 2 for those times when the Toshiba isn't quite portable enough (a.k.a. hernia avoidance). Both are running MS-DOS 6.22 and Microsoft Word 5.5 which is a perfect combination for my needs and, thanks to Mike Brutman's excellent mTCP suite, I can easily copy documents using FTP.
Inevitably the nostalgia factor has led me to tinker with both PCs far more than I planned to, which is why I'm here. My first project involves replacing the Toshiba's HDD with a CF card, using the XTIDE BIOS to overcome the restrictive HDD settings. The current Conner Peripherals soundtrack makes me nervous every time I start it up.
Looking forward to spending some time on here...
Tim.
Just a quick message to say hello.
My "collection" of older computers, if you can call it a collection, comprises a Toshiba T3200SX (386) and a HP OmniBook 5700CT (Pentium 166 MMX). Oh, and a Sinclair Spectrum +2 which is languishing somewhere in the loft at my parents' house along with all the other stuff I keep promising to clear out.
I bought the T3200SX as a distraction-free writing tool. I didn't have attention issues before ADSL came along, but since always-on Internet came along it has been my productivity nemesis. I owned a T3200SX in the 90s and love the keyboard and orange gas plasma display. The OmniBook was a cheap purchase for my kids to run old educational software on, but they've outgrown it and so I now use it as distraction-free PC number 2 for those times when the Toshiba isn't quite portable enough (a.k.a. hernia avoidance). Both are running MS-DOS 6.22 and Microsoft Word 5.5 which is a perfect combination for my needs and, thanks to Mike Brutman's excellent mTCP suite, I can easily copy documents using FTP.
Inevitably the nostalgia factor has led me to tinker with both PCs far more than I planned to, which is why I'm here. My first project involves replacing the Toshiba's HDD with a CF card, using the XTIDE BIOS to overcome the restrictive HDD settings. The current Conner Peripherals soundtrack makes me nervous every time I start it up.
Looking forward to spending some time on here...
Tim.
