All I remember from the last time I had it open is it had the hugest motherboard I have ever seen(and I've worked on quad socket servers since then). It appears to be a 486 workstation server made by a company called Everex except that I can't find any information saying Everex ever made servers.

I didn't end up having time, so I carefully taped up all the openings and put it in my garage, planning to do 'something' with it in the future. Back then it was only sort of pretty obsolete(my desktop at the time was a 433mhz celeron) and I thought with a little magic I could do something with it. I know there's nothing in there to give it scale but the case is about 2.5 feet tall.Ģ2 years ago I salvaged this thing from an elementary school computer lab. The main big project I'm looking at is this monstrosity: I nearly always end up screaming and swearing trying to get a file from the modern PC over to the old one. Well for starters that would have helped out on literally all my vintage PC builds prior to the XP era. What else are you working on that would benefit? Thanks to the other Arsians who posted this stuff a couple decades back. Smart Boot Manager was handy back in the day but I never used it on a CF card.

It's been a while.ĭoes anyone remember if the Type bit of a CF card could prevent a boot disk from detecting it at all or just detecting it as bootable? I don't know any disk manager software like Ontrack would detect an otherwise unseen CF card though.

If you need the space you can boot from 2.44MB floppy images too. I used to copy many floppy images to CD along with Winimage for convenient boot floppy production. Winimage is handy for converting non-bootable self-extracting images to bootable images. I used to burn CDs with my floppy boot image of choice and the 98SE install files plus typical apps (WinRAR etc) to the root directory.ĩ8SE boot disk images are plentiful.

Pc dos 7.1 boot disk