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My first computer was a Compaq Deskpro Portable. It had a 5 1/4" floppy drive, a 40 MB hard drive and ran DOS 3.1 IIRC. I even wrote a custom autoexec.bat file
by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
My first computer was a Compaq Deskpro Portable. It had a 5 1/4" floppy drive, a 40 MB hard drive and ran DOS 3.1 IIRC. I even wrote a custom autoexec.bat file so it booted into a fancy menu of common applications (like Volkswriter and BASICA). I still have the computer but am afraid to boot it up now, since the last time I turned it on it actually booted but smoke came out of the vent.
- S_A_P 10y agoYou sir, need a variac. Slowly apply that 110v/220v to your machine.
- smoyer 10y agoI disagree ... older PCs are much less tolerant to changes to the input voltage. A "simulated brown-out" might kill it completely. Electrolytic capacitors are probably to blame for the smoke - they definitely fail with age. The good news is that you can probably replace them since everything was through-hole back then (as opposed to surface mount).