Very Confused IBM

[Edge0fPain]

But can it run Crysis?

[hakemon]

@Edge0fPain Yes, yes it can.

[Edge0fPain]

@hakemon

As expected. Continue.

[AngeloSantoni]

I don't know why but I find it touching.

[joc69uk32]

2 gig ram works fine for me

[UseryHee]

Poor IBM, oh how it wishes it was a modern PC and still loved.

[jjovereats]

may be a typo in the program

[nfwu]

Oh boy, how have I forgotten how a floppy drive sounds like.

[masterTigress96]

@0:31 sounds like my microwave :)

[tronlaser]

Yes IBM, we know you wish to be like the ultra powerful computers of today, maybe one day, just maybe, i'll give you a 1GB hard drive! And more RAM for you to play with!

[rockangel1967]

the best is still the altair 8800 :-)

[cartossin]

Sounds like your autoexec bat config sys are screwed up. extended and/or expanded memory is probably not set to allocate.

[hakemon]

@cartossin There's nothing in autoexec.bat or config.sys for memory at all. Even booting with them bypassed results in this..  It's just how the NEC V30 works..

[cauda123]

@cartossin ?????????? There's nothing in autoexec.bat or config.sys for memory at all 

[bob93219]

wern't all IBM computers confused?

[miviezgeneration]

ms-dos flop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[physicmad]

wow you could sell that in the 80's and make millions!

[Dreambro1]

this is what we had when i was in highschool,, these and Apple I

[hddr3]

lol its the computer of the future from the past

[debiani3866]

I remember those computers from back in elementary school (which was in early 2000...they never really upgraded their computers lol)

[rfsent5]

They've come out with new computers since then. You should look and go shopping. Believe it or not a lot of people have like 4194304K of ram these days. They call it 4GB ;-)

[hakemon]

@rfsent5 I have a Mac Pro that has 32GB of RAM.

[TheDataZoo]

@hakemon Rofl owned him

[FutureInventions]

@hakemon How do you even use 32GB of RAM?

[hakemon]

@FutureInventions A lot of 1080p uncompressed video editing. It can use up that RAM in no time.

[VeiwerVideo]

@hakemon what computer do you have now?

[hakemon]

@VeiwerVideo Still have this IBM, but with a solid state IDE internal drive now.. I also use a Mac Pro now too though.

[2wayfreq]

@rfsent5 Yeah, but these old systems led the way to what you have today. Its computer history, You'd probably toss one of these in the trash! Well, the less examples of these we have around, the more people will forget how it all started. I have modern computers too, but I appreciate and want to preserve the "Classics".

[princebijan]

Excellent, this brought back old memories of my golden days as a student. I had one of those 8080, 286, then 386 (type AT, XT) with 640K Ram and 8mb of hard drive doing the lot in the good old DOS.

[extronus]

It says 640k lower and 64M extended. Angut,

[SkyCharger001]

You say this PC ONLY has 640 KB of ram, this cannot be true, this is the conventional memory, which is directly available for programs. above this memory range is the memory mapped IO which should be 384KB. Second this old PC's BIOS may not be aware of any memory above 1024KB (maximum an 8086 can address directly)

I have 2 questions, what kind of extension cards does the PC have?

and did you really set the date to 01-01-1900?

[hakemon]

It has only 640kb of ram that is a fact. Look up the IBM ps/2 model 25 xt.

Technically it has 768kb ram but it only touches 640 of it. That's from factory. It has a video card in it, VGA, which of course has 256kb of VRAM. Since this goes in the memory space, that's how your thinking extra 384kb..

It doest have a rtc so it doest remember the time on boots.

[rfvtgbzhn]

@SkyCharger001 Of course this PC has only 640 kB of RAM, at least tehere is not more adressable, because it has a 8086 CPU.

I think thuis is also the reason why you get so bogus values in some DOS programs, because DOS 6.22/MSD 2.11/syscheck 2.46 beta where not designed to run on a 8086.

[SkyCharger001]

@rfvtgbzhn the 8086 can address up to 1024, however on a PC only 640K of this can be mainboard-RAM, the rest is reserved for use by the peripherals (including the video-card RAM) and ROM.

And in those days expansion cards existed that only held RAM, as RAM-slots didn't exist

[rfvtgbzhn]

@SkyCharger001 Yes, I know that the 8086 can tecnically adress 1024 kB of RAM, but I was writing about the 8086 on the PC and then this is limited to 640 kB or RAM (of course not including VRAM).

[MichaelYoshiFan]

@SkyCharger001

the time set to 1990 this the bios time batt broken

[7771062]

И как ты умудрился туда все это запихнуть?

[0121ryanh117]

English

"

And how do you managed to go all this stuff? "

[kisapedra]

wrong he said

and how did you manage to stuff evryting in there :P

[yodhefim]

@7771062 Yo me ' hago' la misma pregunta.

[hakemon]

Please do not spam the comments.

[cugocat12]

it is binary

[hakemon]

Duh, but it's spamming when one can't even read it.

[Hatefulpersonuk]

I Can Read It. Though It Dont Make Any Sense. So It Isa Spam. Random Letters.

[drum00]

its says, that hes a spammer and he wants to be friends and hes says agin he wants friends..... i know binary

[dushanostoich]

hahaahha :D

[CORPARANOID]

Geez, this is great History. Loved the little growing KB <-- at the start-up. Heck there's more Storage in an I-POD right now. Thx 4 the memories.

[jkeelsnc]

These were nice little computers. With a hard drive and (preferably) with a color monitor they were and are very usable DOS PC's. The only problem is some nonstandard parts which would be hard to find nowadays. However, at least it has standard 8 bit ISA slots (even if space constrained). Wouldn't mind having one myself to use now and then.

[Aurakitsune]

Holy crap... These computers remind me so much of the library catalog ones that used to be in the New York Public Library. XD

[Vladislaw81]

Hmmm... I thought it is slowler.

[kirbyyasha]

Nice! A bit faster than my Commodore 64 :P

[shred5]

Wow that is old school!

[x80tech]

o my god.. an 8086!!! i love this processor... is my fauvorite!!!.. you are lucky...

[ktxed]

you should install some linux distro on it :))

damn! even my crappy cellphone is faster now :D

[hakemon]

It does run Linux on the other partition. ELKS, which is the only one that will run on an 8086.

[DuffyOvCarlisle]

are you on smack!?

thats the oldest PC i ever seen

[poopskinTheLiar]

then you haven't seen ENIAC or the Interface Engine :p

seriously though, although i love old computers i wouldn't use one for my main comp/