2021-10-15 at 1:13 AM UTC
A lot of those old machines don't even have hard drives, the entire operating system is on disk memory, so if you don't have an operating disk, it's just a paperweight.
2021-10-15 at 12:29 PM UTC
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A lot of those old machines don't even have hard drives, the entire operating system is on disk memory, so if you don't have an operating disk, it's just a paperweight.
Well no, most have the OS built in..on chip. The Amigas have all been upraded to 3.14 for example, the Sinclair machines have Sinclair basic built in, the TI has Microsoft basic built, the Atari STs have TOS build in etc etc.
In any case...getting the OS/Software is the EASIEST part of the equation.
There are also modern solutions, I have SD/CF card solutions for loading in software for most of my stuff, or Gotek drives (basically a floppy drive emulator where you put the files on USB and the computer thinks it's a real floppy disk).
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2021-10-15 at 2:53 PM UTC
First computer I got with a hard drive was the Tandy. It had a 5mb drive in it and an actual "desktop", which had 6 options on it: Calendar, Calculator, Game, Notepad, FileManager and Settings. That was all. Nothing else.