Laptops from System76 and Framework are always advertising that they work well with Linux, but that's NOTHING compared to this.
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made a DOS 6.22 bootdisk. Let's see if it'll boot that.
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nope. it doesn't seem to boot off floppies.
But I was able to use the command.com from it to finally check the memory. Yep, 4mb.
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I ran some tests. System Information says it's a 33mhz 386SX.
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GEOS's mouse config says you can switch to an external serial mouse.
also look at these lovely GUI markers. vaguely CDE?
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the first serial mouse I plug in appears to have dead horizontal tracking. god damn it.
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Jordan :ms_nonbinary_flag:replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone oh, bother
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@foone Gotta ask... how is that a mouse? As in, where are the left and right mouse buttons? Also, it just looks downright uncomfortable to use...
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@kbkarma it's very uncomfortable to use! and the buttons are his eyebrows
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Jordan :ms_nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@jordan no, brother. brother made this laptop!
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Jonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallantreplied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone how does a PS/2 mouse know a Serial adapter has been plugged in? Do they put a Serial signal into an otherwise unused pin?
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@foone I think it might just barely be able to run Doom. Minimum requirements are 4mb 386
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okay I got it working with a much more boring mouse.
once @gewt gets out of her meeting I'll try doing dialup with it. -
oh hey it still has credentials saved for the previous user's ISP
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Jonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallant last edited by
@thejpster Something like that, yeah. Or they wire it so that if they're plugged into PS/2 they get power on a different pin, so they can tell which one is plugged in
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@crobbler the fun part is that the main reason it can't run doom is a lack of HARD DRIVE space! there's nowhere you could install Doom to!
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it's also got a PCMCIA port. so maybe I could shove an ethernet card in there
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or a hard drive card big enough to let me run DOOM
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@foone INTERNET? OMG WHAT IS THAT
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OKAY I dug through my PCMCIA box a little.
We've got some storage adapters, some storage cards, and some ethernets. -
@foone and the "Internet" works ?