TEF #176 | Briefly Exploring A Mystery Retro PC

Friend picked this up for free and let me keep the internal components. Let's see what sort of swag is inside.

Wanna help support this electronics fool?

[Gilgamex]

8:13 those old school hard drive sounds gives me the equivalent satisfaction as the sound of vacuuming heavy pockets of crusty bits from the floor hell

[samt]

I would recommend getting a older core 2 duo system with onboard IDE that is part of the chip-set and not a 3rd party ad on chip for looking at that drive. If that is not possible any system with PCI slots and a PCI to IDE card with its own dedicated bios would do. I would use Linux and image it with ddrescue as that drive does not sound very good. Not sure if there is any software on it that may not be online already.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

I can remember when I thought that a 128K memory card in my apple II was amazing. I still have a Windows 95 machine, I don’t think it works anymore.
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[emmettturner]

Yeah, Intel went from no heatsink, to optional heatsink, to mandatory heatsink, to mandatory heatsink with optional fan, to mandatory HSF, all before they started mandating thermal compound. Original Pentium was at that mandatory HSF stage. :)

[M_McFly]

My guess is that HDD came from another PC - probably Sue's! - with Win 95 and was then moved to this PC and NT installed... without formatting it! That would explain the lack of NTFS as well.

[timmooney]

Regarding the drive not reading when connected through usb: could it be a file system issue? I'm curious if a modern version of Windows could view and older version of NTFS or FAT?

In the past I've had trouble viewing spare hard drives I ran on a linux box due to file system.

[danielkawano]

You probably should try upgrading the cpu to a K6-2, It would be nice :)