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Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 Day 5: What Happens Now — fireborn (fireborn.mataroa.blog)
submitted 2 days ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I pulled the NC10’s motherboard out, stuck it in the oven — 200 degrees Celsius, five minutes, no fan — and baked it. Not metaphorically.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I did worse, resurrected a 1999 industrial 486SX on Win98B. It was fun as hell trying to figure it all out again, and most references are gone from the early web. Which reminds me, time to get that 10-BaseT NIC working!

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That’s a little interesting because of the old 486sx and the lack of handholding.

I think deploying dos and/or win3.1 with audio and 3d gfx would be interesting due to the lack of memory management and manual hardware config. Windows xp was pretty simple though.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I have a 486, but with MS-DOS 6.2 and Norton Commander as a UI. Haven't booted it up for about a decade, though, but don't see a reason why it shouldn't work. My Win98SE computer (Pentium 100), on the other hand, is still my gaming rig. Don't need anything better for HoMM2, Master of Orion 2, and TES: Daggerfall.