[RESOLVED] 8088's Kick

[TopRelaxer97]

I just bought a 8088 and an old 486sx for twenty dollars. I've always wanted a 8088 and could not pass up the chance to get a relic. Does anyone else have an 8088? What do you use it for if anything. If you don't have one, do you want one? What would you pay for one?

[CobraTekMax]

I've got one that I play Black & White on with an ATI VGA Wonder. :D

[clauded]

yes i keep my thrusted 8088,and a 286,a386 a 486,and a k6/2 300,beside i have an old full bay hdd with the controler card that i keep as momento of the machines i worked with and in,i wish i could find a museum to keep them,my wife says it takes too much space but they are all in good working order,lol
clauded

[paranoid]

I've been keeping all these old things in the garage for some time now. There is about 5 full working PC's from 286 to 486, but due to lack of monitors they never get used. i used to use the 386 for old software and keeping a journal. thats about it. The 286 probably makes a good anchor.
paid? People thanked me for taking them.

[jimmr13]

Check with the Computer Museum in San Diego California, They wanted my lisa 1 Of the very first Macs. Named after Steve Jobs Daughter. Darn thing still works!

[iamtheman]

I probably would hold onto an 8088 if I came across one. Other than that though 286-486's are alot of fun to smash into dumpsters. I can't help it I've just seen to many of them.

[Radical Dreamer]

Mommy! 8088's scare me! :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Cable Modem Tech]

wow that got me thinkin' i would love to have an old 8088 i have some carp 386 ers here that i do noting with. but it would be cool to have one of the older ones to have as a display piece.... if i had a mantle i would hang it above it....
CMT

[parning]

I keep my old 8088 around for one purpose: to play XONIX! The game's speed is based on the processor's clock, so anything faster than 4 MHz is WAY to fast!

[AlienDyne]

Originally posted by Mr. Jimmr:
Check with the Computer Museum in San Diego California, They wanted my lisa 1 Of the very first Macs. Named after Steve Jobs Daughter. Darn thing still works!


You had a Lisa I, Jim?? Bro, I respect you more from now on!

[jaeger]

I've got an entire 8088 system. It's a Compaq breifcase sized monster withe a monitor and keyboard built in. First time I turned it on I let the magic smoke out. Something blew somewhere. I just point to it whenever someone kvetches about thier "heavy" laptop.

[Raijen]

Originally posted by parning:
I keep my old 8088 around for one purpose: to play XONIX! The game's speed is based on the processor's clock, so anything faster than 4 MHz is WAY to fast!

Never heard of that game before. Is it good? I've got a 8086 that i was given for free... anyone else ever hear of one with a SCSI card and 20 MB SCSI HDD? (I figure they must have upgraded in the past)

:)

[furlong47]

I know a lot of people use old, old computers for packet radio (a form of ham radio) or to run very old logging software...I would like to have an 8088 just to play with it!

[3fingersalute]

Originally posted by Cable Modem Tech:
wow that got me thinkin' i would love to have an old 8088 i have some carp 386 ers here that i do noting with. but it would be cool to have one of the older ones to have as a display piece.... if i had a mantle i would hang it above it....
CMT


Don't put anything valuble on the mantle below it...could you imagine if the 8088 fell?? Did you ever feel how heavy those beasts are?

[TheoneDKS]

Ive got a Sharp laptop 8088, I need to find some old programs to make it usefull.

[ShadowWynd]

Ihave two 8088 emulator laptop.... the NEC Multispeed (9.1 / 4.0 Mhz). Still work, to my knowledge.

[MacGyver]

Our church has an old Olivetti 8088 that used to run a bank of six old slide projectors with the use of a home-grown custom program. It has been relegated to obsolesence with the purchase of a new LCD projector.

At least with PowerPoint you don't have to worry about upside-down slides midway through a service. No BSOD's yet, tho....

[xt477]

The nice thing's about them is the fact you dont have a cmos, or other volatile memory.
So as long as the contacts dont corrode you should be able to leave it sit for years and when you flip the switch it will be just the same as you left it.

Anyone thats interested I can get PLC's based on 8088's with a flavor of unix os, for around 5k :) 64k eeprom no IO though thats extra :)

[Lycia]

At one job they were using an old 8086 with dbaseIII+!! unfortunately I got rid of it instead of keeping it.

[Renée]

Nah, the oldest thing I got on hand right now is a P75 hooked up to the entertainment system as a music server.

[Kyr0n]

Yea, i use it as a high tech door stop

[parning]

Originally posted by Nicholas 'Raijen' Furniss:
Never heard of that game {Xonix} before. Is it good?

It's a game wherein you try to cover as much ground on the board without the monsters catching you! It's highly addictive (which is why I still can't stop playing it....).

There's a version for PDA out there, I think. Do a search for Xonix and you'll find it - I think it should be available on abandonware sites.

[kennethstarrfp]

If you live in Brisbane or Gold Coast Australia I got a 8086 with 640KB ram and 611KB HD and XGA video card and 1.44MB diskette drive!

[Fierce]

Another blast from the past.... :D :D

Thanks Dataman for the time wasting idea! :D :p

[MacGyver]

Why are you digging this old topic up? :confused:

[freddy]

since this topic was posted i,ve upgraded from the 8088 , to an amstrad 8086 ,,,(512k memory) it runs at 1.4 times the speed of the IBM ,,,,and the wife says that if i behave between now and my birthday , i can have a compac 286,

looking foward to this !!!!!

freddy

[edball]

I know where an entire room filled with 8088's is. I actually started with an Atari, it had 16k of memory and no drive. Before then we wrote programs on cards with a keypunch machine and put them in a card reader......don't get me started.

[Outcoded]

Did a service job on one not long ago (power switch broke). Still works to this day, and does the job (WordPerfect 5.1 and a LJet 2).

Y'know a lot of people would consider that a collectable?

[FatalException0E]

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[FatalException0E]

Some of my sites are still running systems that use the 8088, or the newer model of the same system, which has an 80286 in it. The 8088 has a max of 512k RAM, and the 286 has a max of 1024k. A restaurant's entire DB fits in there. Keep in mind, these are strictly single purpose machines, though.
Can still buy NEW machines running the 80286!
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