The only old school ones I have are the 286, the 486, a Pentium 233, and a Cyrix based Compaq 2266
- CAT Computers 486 -
SPECS: Kingspao model 35 Chassis with 220 Watt PSU, ASUS GX4 System Board, Intel 80486 DX4-100, 64MB of FP 72 pin RAM, 256K L2 Cache, Fujitsu 3GB HDD, 52X CD-RW drive, Iomega Zip100 ATA, S3 Trio SVGA 1MB VLB, SoundBlaster AWE32, NE2000 compatible network, Packard Bell Radio Card, Packard Bell TV Tuner Card, running MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
USAGE: Generally used for old DOS Games, some light Internet via IE 5.1 or Arachne, and some basic tasks. Also acts as a print server for the HP LaserJet 4L printer I still use (the best printer I've ever owned)
- GEM 286/10 -
SPECS: IBM PC AT Style Clone Chassis (Full SIze AT), Octek Fox II Rev. 5 80286 Motherboard (Baby AT), Intel 80286 SX-10 CPU, ITT 80c286-12 MPU, 6144K System Memory, 350 Watt PSU (in old 200 watt PSU case), Seagate 540MB IDE Drive, Iomega ZIP100 ATAPI, The usual dual Floppy Setup (1.44 A:\ and 1.2M B:\), 1MB SVGA VESA Compatible (ISA), Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16, NE2000 Compatible Network Card, running MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1, Windows 2.03, and Windows 1.01.
USEAGE: This is the one I put on Youtube running Arachne 0.74 (DOS Web Browser), so Showing off. It's also used for DOS Games, mostly older titles like Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny or some of the older Test Drive games that run way too fast on my 486.
- Flight "386 SX" Pentium 233 -
SPECS: Kingspao Model 35 Baby AT Chassis with Hi-Pot 220 Watt PSU, ASUS SP-97 Series Socket 7 Motherboard, Intel Pentium 233MMX, 64MB RAM, 20GB HDD D:, Swappable Drive C: (allows me to run just about any O/S on it I want off any drive I want, plus make drives for my other computers), ATI Rage II PCI 4MB 3-D Graphics, SoundBlaster Vibra 16, Dazzle Snazzi PCI DV Capture Card, running a ton of different O/S (Open BSD, Linux, Unix, DOS, Windows 1/2/3/9x/NT/2K, CP/M, whatever I want basically).
USAGE: Experimenting with different operating systems, playing various games too new for DOSBOX or for Windows 9X (Windows 98SE being the standard drive for that computer), capturing digital video off of old computers and game consoles, MIDI Patch and File editing.
- Compaq Presario 2266 -
SPECS: Cyrix 233 MHz CPU, 64MB of RAM, 8GB Maxtor HDD, 1.44M Floppy, CD-ROM.
USAGE: I plan to just use this as another Network computer for LAN gaming old LAN games (DOOM, Quake, and the like), and possibly also as an MP3 server once I beef up the hard disk drive. For awhile this was my DV capture rig but I prefer an AT system for that because I can put a beefier graphics card and more memory and a faster chip in that.
I'll Refrain from my 8088's because I'd rather post those in the forum for those, and those are both used for DOS Gaming and LeetIRC anyway and not much else. I also won't mention my modern boxes, just because between my Acer Aspire One and my Home Built Pentium D 3.4G system, I'm not sure how to keep down from "fifty" paragraphs about all the stuff I do on those since they are the most active systems in the house.