DamnSmallLinux on Retro hardware
Brian Kelsay
BLKELSAY at kcc.usda.gov
Wed Jan 28 14:52:11 CST 2004
>Naturally, the lack of a FPU prevented some of the DamnSmallLinux >applications
from working, but you can probably find a 486SX FPU chip for >the cost of postage, or just use a
486DX.
Not necessarily true. I looked long and hard for a 387 chip a couple of yrs ago for a mobo that
needed one and couldn't find the right one. There were at least 2 types. One had pins that go in
a socket straight and one, like I needed, had j-pins and it slipped inside a square socket w/ the
pins all around. I gave up looking, but I did find a 287 in a computer store, still new in the
box. They wanted at least $30 for it, and it might have been $40. The PC isn't really worth that
anymore. I still have a 286 that needs a 287, but also has a borked pwr supply. On ebay you
don't always get what you think you are paying for. I hate buying stuff without pictures. I
bought a 233 thinking it would be a socket 7, p-I. It turned out to be a slot 1, P-II. Couldn't
even shoe-horn that in.
Now if someone has a P-I 233, I could still find a use for it, but I'm probably ready to give away
the 386.
Brian Kelsay
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