Old Computers Web Site

This is a website that holds information about some old computers (the ones I own), old devices, and old software. Most of the resources you can find here are specially related with me (who is building this site).

Most of the information you can find here is difficult to find over all the net, and my own interests pushed me to write and publish whatever I could. I'd like to have this as a personal old computer stuff inventory, and for anyone who needs the information.

I tried to make the site clear. By now, it's all done following HTML 3.2, and there are no server side scripts. It only has some javascript for the webring this site is in, and perhaps some javascript from the free server this web may be in. All the html pages you can find here are HTML compliant (tested). About websites, I believe in the 3 clue words: content, content, and content. That's the main target of these documents.

Old Computers

Old computers stuff.

Resources

• Hard Disks related information (focused at almost-obsolete machines).
• Old Software. Some of the programs people run in final 80's and first 90's.
• Board Configurations. Jumper settings of several cards/devices.
• Device Drivers. DOS drivers of old devices or hard-to-find drivers.

My owns

• My old goodies. Information about all my old computers.

General computer resources

Only one section by now.

• Software utilities. Must-have utilities for MSDOS/x86 platform.

University

That's my small contribution.

• Class notes: Some notes taken as a telecommunications engineering student. In Catalan.
• Exercices: Some documents I have had to do while I was studying. Something like "homework".

Music

Only one section by now.

• List of my LPs. Please feel free of sending any comment about my music styles.

Humour

By now only a list of my comics.

• Spanish comics: Table of all the comics I own, in Spanish.

Web Site Building

English

I'm not English-native, then this whole website may have some lexical, grammatical or syntactical errors. I would be pleased if I receive any note about that; I'll try to correct it as soon as possible, and it will help me improving my English.

File types

All of the files in this web site exist as MIME types. Some servers doesn't allow the downloading of files that aren't MIME classified (.bat, .log, ...).

File parts

Due to limitations in the free servers that host this site, some of the files have been splitted into different parts. For example, imagine you have the file compres.zip in 4 parts: compres_1.zip, compres_2.zip, compres_3.zip, compres_4.zip. Then, you have to merge all the files into one. You can use a command like that in DOS:

Under UNIX-like systems, you can use the following command under a SH shell:

Site Dates

All dates, unless clearly specified, conform to DD/MM/YYYY or DD/MM/YY format.

That's me

I'm this website master, so you can contact me using the e-mail at the bottom of this page. Anyway, you can contact me through:

• ICQ#: 9658637
• IRC: nick/ircname = viric

Anyone may want to contact me 'privately'. Here you can download my PGP public key: PGP key

Last updates

• 16/09/2003. Updated one I/O card thanks to a mail from Odino Durchschlag.
• 30/01/2003. Updated Diagnostics Disk image of Compaq portable 386 computer. I saw it was wrong when I needed it.
• 29/04/2002. Mouse, Iomega Zip and RTL8029 drivers finally added. Also the IPX Packet Driver software at Software Utilities.
• 26/04/2002. NIC Driver added: UM90003AF.
• 18/02/2002. Site introduction.
• 17/02/2002. Added photos of all computers I own, and some things were added to My Goodies list.
• 02/01/2002. New sections about jumper settings of devices and their drivers too. Also new software utilities added.
• 27/12/2001. New comics section. Like LPs, something more like an own database.
• 25/12/2001. Real last version of the site uploaded. New LPs, new class notes, and all files should be downloadable. Merry X'MAS!
• 28/08/2001. Added information about HP-260 Series 30 server. It also comes using a new computer documentation style (small change).

TO DO list

1. Make links in 'updates'
2. Make a schematic Site Map
3. Write a disclaimer
4. Add file sizes next to download links
5. Add more utilities like Disk Checkers, Drivers, ...
6. Improve the comics list
7. Add a picture of me

Started 03/08/2001 / Updated 2003-09-17 01:26:51.000000000 +0200

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