Got a free computer

[thescreensavers]

Crappiest thing ever its a NEC ready 9071 computer

with a
P150mhz its ceramic and big and purple
a wopping 2Gb HD

16mb EDO RaM (WTF is that) there are 2 stick in now IDK if hey upgraded there not labled
The NEC Ready 9701 has a maximum capacity of 128MB.

8x cdrom

64bit pci graphics

Ethernet Pci card which my be 1MbPS

16 bit surround sound card

it also got a floppy.

any ways is a peice of junk I dont know if it works but they said it shows pictuer and says OS not found so I can probly get an os to install now were can i get more EDO ram and were can i get a free os other then linux. if nothing else works ill get 2 new 100mbps and put that free firewall.

 

[Scouzer]

EDO ram is faster than RDRAM

 

[Trey22]

That's faster and $2500 less than my first computer!

 

[ProviaFan]

My slowest operational system is an 800MHz Duron with 640MB of SDR SDRAM for Linux experimentation (there's also a 766MHz Celeron with 128MB in the closet, but I lack the peripherals, space, reason, and desire to set it up). If I had been given a similar system, I'd get a basic OS loaded so that it will boot (Windows 95, anyone?) and pass it on to someone who's not smart enough to realize that it should be thrown away.

 

[thescreensavers]

bump so any free os to put on
I can make this a hardware firewall which is probaly the esiest and bestthing to do. if any one has any other ides pls tell me thanks

 

[InlineFour]

firewall 4TW!

 

[thescreensavers]

is win 95 legal to download now? lol

 

[mechBgon]

You could probably buy retail Win98 for cheap $ in FS/T. And then you just need to score a copy of Descent I & II: The Definitive Collection, plunk a Voodoo2 in there, pry the 3DFX patch out of me and you can enjoy one of the classics. 6 degrees of freedom, we're talking a real 3D game :evil:

 

[thescreensavers]

will win 98 run on 64mb of am i forgot

 

[Tostada]

Win95, Win98, NT3.51, Win2K will all run fine on 64MB.

If you can get it up to 64MB, I'd start off trying Win2K. If you're stuck with 16MB, I'd be using Win95a.

The problem is ... what is your time worth? Unless you're really bored, spending time on this computer is a little silly.

 

[jackschmittusa]

EDO ram was the successor to FPM ram. If you can find any, you may get it for free as there is really no market for it anymore. I've seen it in baskets at computer shows before for a quarter per stick.

 

[Ika]

That's about as good as my Micron full tower system D). it had 16 + 64mb ram (well...), a Stealth Diamond video card (!! I had absolutely no idea)(at least i think thats what its called), floppy, Sound Blaster Live! sound card, 1.36gb and a 1.01gb hard drives, 8x CD-ROM, and.... a 166mhz pentium ceramic cpu... with the most annoying cpu fan ever (i can hear this thing literally 30 feet away). I ran Windows 95 on it... slowly.