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| Thread ID: 33415 | 2003-05-15 10:57:00 | Old motherboard non-Y2K compliant | Jen C (20) | Press F1 |
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| 144534 | 2003-05-15 12:16:00 | It would be a good gaming system for old DOS games with Win98SE - an old SoundBlaster16 sound card would also be a good addition - were awesome cards back in the DOS days. | HadO (796) | ||
| 144535 | 2003-05-15 12:21:00 | Still have a PNP16, and an AWE32 somewhere I think (Both ISA and un-used :(). We bought one for an ol' 286 with a 20MB HDD and 4MB RAM about 10 years back! Man, it brought that thing to life! |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 144536 | 2003-05-16 05:06:00 | Just set the date to 2003. :D The Y2K problem was just that when it reached midnight on Dec 31 1999 it didn't update to year 2000. Since the date doesn't go backwards, it won't matter. Microsoft distributed a number of OSs from about 1998 or so which were programmed to "know" that 2000 wasn't a leap year. Wrong. ;-) The shortage of pins on the monitor plug is no problem. The manufacturers just saved some metal (and gold plating) by using pins only in the positions which actually have signals. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 144537 | 2003-05-16 05:38:00 | Thanks Graham I decided to get my Parents a cheap PC for them to play on. I managed today to snaffle a Pent 2 400MHz with 128 MB RAM and a 3.2 gig hard drive. It also comes with a CD-ROM, 15" monitor, 56K modem, keyboard and mouse - a complete package all for a very reasonable price. It even works :D. I might even be able to convince them that the internet is not scary and get them online. I will keep the Pent 75 MHz to experiment on as it is worth nothing $ wise. Thanks everyone Jen :) |
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