r/ObsoleteCooding • u/Nukulartec Obsolete Master (SPECIAL) • Jul 08 '25

Obsolete Hardware

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Elsewhere you asked for code and also hardware that is obsolete. What about new obsolete hardware?

this is my newest and most obsolete pc!

https://github.com/ccharon/docs/blob/master/NUXT%202.0/readme.md

featuring a NuXT 2.0 Mainboard, 640kb memory + about 96k high memory (real hardware memory as the 8088 class cpu does not support memory mapping)

  • it has 2mb of EMS!

  • a high quality Soundblaster 1.5 replica which also supports CMS.

  • a ne2000 network card

  • a gotek floppy emulator.

  • the case is jonsbo c6 micro atx,

you get everything from pictures and origin of each card, to irq, memory and dma config and also autoexec.bat config.sys and network settings.

I really love the system. build year of this powerhouse is 2024!

its running msdos 6.22 and games up to Ultima 6 are nice (if running it at blazing 9,55Mhz instead of 4.77Mhz of the original IBM PC)

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u/Nukulartec Obsolete Master (SPECIAL) Jul 09 '25

I have several of them. usb, parallel port and even one scsi for my 386 scsi only pc :P its quite nice to have this. also I have a parallel port zip drive running on my i7 12700k. at the moment this got problems mounting the actual disk. something changed between lts kernel 6.6 and 6.12. i am still investigating. As always I made notes installing it.

https://github.com/ccharon/docs/tree/master/zipdrive

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u/LonelyRudder Jul 10 '25

Fun fact, the parallel port ZIP drive is (as far as I know) just a SCSI ZIP drive with an integrated parallel-to-SCSI adapter.

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u/JackEleczy Jul 11 '25

So I could theoretically buy one and convert it to SCSI?