YO OLD COMPUTER YO

[myjaja]

I just bought this old computer from the flea market and it has a 15mhz processer and 6mbs of ram and a 20mb hard disk drive. ONLY for $15 bucks. WOW good deal! YOU THINK SO? But anyways it has a problem. It won"t let me install dos on it. I have no idea why. So does anyone know what to do.

THANKS.........

 

[thecrecarc]

wow!! ithought the goverments computers were only 1 mhz!! WOW! welcome to the middle ages

 

[ribbon13]

286?

 

[myjaja]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
286?

Are you talking about intel?

 

[imported_Lucifer]

sell it.

 

[myjaja]

na

 

[brazzmunk]

hot damn that's antique

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: brazzmunk
hot damn that's antique

Yeah!

What version of DOS are you trying to install? Also what is wrong witht he installation, does it just fail to initialize or something else.

-Kevin

 

[ribbon13]

are you sure it's not 16mhz?

 

[Terumo]

Originally posted by: myjaja
I just bought this old computer from the flea market and it has a 15mhz processer and 6mbs of ram and a 20mb hard disk drive. ONLY for $15 bucks. WOW good deal! YOU THINK SO? But anyways it has a problem. It won"t let me install dos on it. I have no idea why. So does anyone know what to do.

What type of computer is it (a Compaq)? And what DOS version are you trying to install? Got MS-DOS 6.22 installed on this 286 with 2mb of memory, so it should work. It also has a Donovan Micro Systems GUI to auto launch programs/games and such.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Might need to low-level (true low-level, not just write-zeros) the HD, if it's an MFM or RLL drive. SpinRite 2.x/3.x would be a good tool to use too. Does the HD have a "defect list" printed on a sticker attached to the top of the drive?

 

[shabby]

You got jipped, you paid a doller per mhz. Only a fool would pay that much with the speed of computers today... 😉