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Postman's been!

I was lucky a couple of weeks ago and picked up a as new Atari 1040 STE, and a few days later another 2
Smugness soon wore off as making disk's turned out to be a headache with the usb floppy drive I had.
None of the Pc's in the house had headers on the boards for a real floppy drive and usb drive's just dont format down to the 720k I needed.
Not even the 5170 we have would do the job, formatting the disk in the Atari first resulted in an unreadable disk once the image was written back to it.....Grrrrr

So off to Ebay for a PC that would do the job and make a nice Dos/Linux machine that I could really do with, Dosbox is great but well....you know.
Now I didnt really want another big box PC on my desk, so the little form factor IBM's caught my eye, the spec wasn't too shabby either, 3ghz HT Pentium 4, 2 gig of ram, bit of an overkill for a Dos machine, nevermind, the price I got it for was a shocking £10.49
What a nice little speedy machine, after a bit of a clean and some new thermal paste along with an installation of linux & DOS kindly done by my son (Dad was ill & convinced the grimm reaper had caught up with him) it's up and running extremely swiftly.
Cant wait to get some disks made up over the next few days.

I moved this to the modern computing thread Bumcake just because it more at home in there. A great post and a great computer. My company have been selling IBM and Lenovo for years, including this model and they are very well made and a superb little PC. I can dig out spares for you if you need them.

Thanks for moving it, I wasn't quite sure where to put the post, that's a very kind and appreciated offer, I would like to change the riser card for a double pci type so I can put a Creative soundcard just for the "Setblaster command" for dos and also a wireless card inside, it has a pci and pcie x1 at the moment.

Quite enjoying using this funny Linux stuff