Can I Do Anything With This OLD 486

[Dove19983]

i have an old 486 65mhz it has two memory slots but i had it for a while and it ran without any memory installed but then i got my new comp and i took the hd out of the old one so i could have a backup adn i deleted the os (win3.1) off the old hd but i later tried to install win98 on to it and i cant because no memory so is there anything i can do with it? without buying memory

[Steve R Jones]

Boat anchor http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Dove19983]

Lol Dont own a boat

[Steve R Jones]

Glad you saw the humor. Came back to edit out the original note... I bet if you asked around enough, you could find someone with some mem sticks to put in the pc. We have a monthly computer flee market in Dallas. You can get 486 machines for ten dollars that actuall run.

[Dove19983]

well its no big deal i was just wondering. well now ive found out that since i have took it apart and left it in piecies in my floor for 3 months that i put it but together and the floppy drive dont work or soemthing it dont even try to read from it and it woudl be usefull it the floppy worked because my dad got a pretty good comp but it dotn have a floppy so i was going to put it in his (yeah i know BUy one for 10bucks)but no use if it dotn work. also i found a few dos disk and i was going to install win 3.1 back on it but it dont read the floppy

[wyvrn]

No offense, but you need to use a Word editor before you post. It might prompt you to insert some punctuation in few places http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[alpha]

Get some memory and u can do all sorts of cool stuff - I used QBASIC as a tone generator for, lets say, phreaking...... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

Rig a 486 for silent running (disconnectable harddrive etc., no cpu fan) and late at night, u can use it for reading inappropriate textfiles, with an old 9.6k modem u can telnet onto the cool BBS's, dialup all the good BBS's, play all the mad old games, man, ure onto something good. The only things that match it in coolness are the C64 or all the Apple II series.

[daveleau]

You can use it as a firewall and you can also crack RC5 blocks with it.

[Dove19983]

Well, I really can't do anything with it now, I cant get anything installed on it. Cause its a blank HD. Anybody Have anyideas on what could be wrong with it? it wont read from the floppy. Do i need to have the drivers on a floppy too?

[wahrez]

I've got an old 486, which I'm running Windows NT on and its running as a mail server, chugs along quite nicely and hasn't been rebooted for over six months!

Use it for:

Firewall
Mail Server
Cracking
Hacking
Phreaking
Testing
Old Gaming
RC5
DHCP/DNS Server

My advise would be to (if it still works) get some memory for it (i've got 24megs in mine) and then do something with it, its still quite a powerful machine.

If the HDD won't boot and the floppy is screwed stick the HDD in another machine and stick DOS and any drivers you need on it, that should get you started!!!

[club_med]

Yeah, id say the firewall idea is a good one.

cm.

[Dove19983]

u think its fried because the processor didnt have anykind of heat sink?

[Kuasimodem]

The floppy may be plugged in backwards, try reversing the plug on the back of the floppy drive.

[Dove19983]

tried that. i think i may have fried the mobo.
well thanks for the help.
Peace

[Long Haired Hippie Phreek]

Those 486s make dandy wet stones, if you bother to pull out all the pins.