hi

could you be specific about the components?
i like to build my own computers and think this may be a fun project.


On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, .dan. wrote:

> Several people wanted additional information.  Here are some particular 
> questions and ansers then those many had in common.
>
> First:
>
> "What programs are there in DOS, that is, for the Internet, and can you get 
> broadband speeds?"
>
> The way I use it connected to a mac it acts like a terminal to send and 
> recieve information.  I use unix and linx based internet programs on the mac 
> and in a couple of shell accounts to which I have access.  The speed is a 
> matter of the connection speed to the internet you have on the machine to 
> which the dos machine is attached.  There are still dos programs which use a 
> network connection to the network so such programs could be used directly and 
> browsers etc. used in dos or in shell accounts.
>
> Second:
>
> "may I ask what edition of DOS this uses?"
>
> It can use any of them.  I happen to run the extended version of dr dos which 
> is free and has many functions added to the original.  In fact any operating 
> system that can be run on a regular pc will work on it.
>
> Third:
>
> Most wanted to know where it is available and the price.  There are several 
> companies who sell small scale dos mother boards.  They are intended mostly 
> for industrial control use and other purposes.  They however have all the 
> functionality of full size machines and the port and other devices that can 
> be added are like wise the same.  They come with various cpu in various 
> speeds.  Most are more recent forms which require less power then older 
> versions of chips.
>
> I had concieved the idea of using one of these as the basis for a custom dos 
> machine to use as I described before.  Some of them now have the option of 
> using a flash chip as a hard drive so I chose one of them.  I also made the 
> choice based on what I wanted to perform with it as to choice of ports and 
> what devices such as drives I wanted.  It can boot from a usb port so I use a 
> memory stick as a boot drive like a floppy used to do.  Mine has 3 regular 
> serial ports with 4 possible.  One for speech synth, one for connection to 
> the mac and one goes to a modem so I can use the phone function scripts I 
> have to dial out and do other phone tasks automatically.
>
> A friend put the various parts together and in a box for me.  This is a 
> sighted project only because every thing is tight and on a small scale. The 
> price depends on which mother board used, how many ports it supports, what 
> other devices like drives etc. it can use, the cpu speed and chips used and 
> other factors.
>
> My friend is a phd grad school student in computer science more on the 
> hardware side of things .  By doing this he now has the idea he can do it for 
> a few dollars if one only wants to connect to another machine as I do without 
> local dos computer functions except on a small scale such as screen readers 
> and connectivity software .  He says if he were to do my project again for 
> others he would have to charge for his time.  Depending on configuration I 
> would guess about $400.
>
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