A little while back my Grandfather gave me a computer that belonged to my grandmother (who died of cancer in 2004), and he wanted me to recover the letters that she typed up on it as the machine was old and didn't boot up properly.
I managed to boot up the OS with DOS, it had Windows 3.1 installed on it. A few of you have seen me load it up on Livestream. Keep in mind back in the days of 3.1, there was no desktop, there was "Program manager". If you want to find out more about Windows 3.1, Google it.
Anyhoo, I opened the machine up to get a rundown of hardware specs. After unintentionally inhaling about 40 kilos of ancient cigarette smoke, I got a photo with my phone, sorry for the quality.
It's an AMI (American Megatrends Inc) machine, with some extra cards in there. The hard drive it came with was only 256 MB, according to my grandfather it was upgraded to a 639.9 MB hard drive later on in the 90's.
Close up of the hard drive:
Ever heard of a WD Caviar 2635? I suppose not.
Welp, I've gotta continue cleaning this thing up and then figure out a way to get the data off of it (No USB or network, just serial and VGA...) and maybe later on I'll post a full rundown of this old thing.
Offthread: MACK'S ADVENTURES IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING CLASS!
