If the kids make fun of you for being old, lock them in a room with a 386 with no math co processor and let them figure out IRQ’s for their Sound Blaster.
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If the kids make fun of you for being old, lock them in a room with a 386 with no math co processor and let them figure out IRQ’s for their Sound Blaster.
Because developing an appreciation for how far computers have come, that’s pretty cool.
@HopelessDemigod Setting clock speed and multiplier jumpers on my motherboard so the CPU and RAM could talk to each other as fast as possible. See also: disk interleave.
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If the kids make fun of you for being old, lock them in a room with a 386 with no math co processor and let them figure out IRQ’s for their Sound Blaster.
Because developing an appreciation for how far computers have come, that’s pretty cool.
@HopelessDemigod Hand them an S100 card and some jumpers then the manual which contains the example code to integrate into your CP/M BIOS to use it.
PC people had it easy
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If the kids make fun of you for being old, lock them in a room with a 386 with no math co processor and let them figure out IRQ’s for their Sound Blaster.
Because developing an appreciation for how far computers have come, that’s pretty cool.
@HopelessDemigod At least reference your source
For anyone else, go checkout this frickin thing...
https://youtube.com/shorts/-_114J43IL4 Chris Boden / Physics Duck -
If the kids make fun of you for being old, lock them in a room with a 386 with no math co processor and let them figure out IRQ’s for their Sound Blaster.
Because developing an appreciation for how far computers have come, that’s pretty cool.
@HopelessDemigod and then mounting a cd drive to work with it. With limited instructions.
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@HopelessDemigod and then mounting a cd drive to work with it. With limited instructions.
MSCDEX driver
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MSCDEX driver
@HopelessDemigod oh yes ... We have come a long way in the last 30 years ...
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@HopelessDemigod oh yes ... We have come a long way in the last 30 years ...
Yes
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If the kids make fun of you for being old, lock them in a room with a 386 with no math co processor and let them figure out IRQ’s for their Sound Blaster.
Because developing an appreciation for how far computers have come, that’s pretty cool.
@HopelessDemigod Lol I know exactly what ll of this means from reading old computer books for funsies
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If the kids make fun of you for being old, lock them in a room with a 386 with no math co processor and let them figure out IRQ’s for their Sound Blaster.
Because developing an appreciation for how far computers have come, that’s pretty cool.
@HopelessDemigod Haha. Wait 'til they have to figure out how to free up enough of the 640k base memory to get something to run. Faffing endlessly around with autoexec.bat and config.sys. *sigh*
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If the kids make fun of you for being old, lock them in a room with a 386 with no math co processor and let them figure out IRQ’s for their Sound Blaster.
Because developing an appreciation for how far computers have come, that’s pretty cool.
@HopelessDemigod
And for full realism: No internet access and (perhaps) the manual that came with the sound card
