My Classic PC, Still Working After All These Years

tunersedge writes: Check the specs:

Epson Equity I personal computer (c. 1984)
512K RAM
82-key keyboard
2 (count them!, 2) 5.25" floppy disk drives
13" RGB monitor (with contrast/brightness knobs)
Handy on/off switch
healthy 25-year-old yellowed plastic
absolutely NO software

This PC happens to be one my parents bought brand new in 1984. My mom ran a pre-school, and they used it to keep records and payroll. Lotus 123, baby! I cut my programming teeth on this thing. GW-Basic was my friend. Kings Quest screens took 2 minutes to load when you walked into a new one. I dug this thing out of my parents basement yesterday. I pulled the case of, dusted out a little (surprisingly low on the dust), and plugged it in. It actually fired up! I'm stoked, except the disks we had are missing. Who knows where they ended up. What I'm looking to do is either buy some old-working disks with whatever I can find (MS-DOS 3.22, GW-Basic, whatever), or try and recreate some using a USB based floppy drive and some modern software. Has anyone tried to resurrect a PC this old before? I figured at least a couple Slashdotters might have some good leads.

DaveinSC

[DaveinSC]

I remember my first PC. It was early 1988 and I bought an Amstrad that didn't have a hard drive but did have a 5.25" floppy. It has some DOS and data disks for a word processing program that I never did use. Also my first PC game was Kings Quest. And yes, it did take forever to reload everytime I had to change disks. I even progressed to the Leisure Suit Larry games. At the time these were the coolest things I'd ever played. Somewhere in a box, I still have all these games and disks. I don't know what the l

My Ancient computer

[Raisputin]

I still have the very first computer I ever owned, an Apple ][e Specs (may be slightly off on the printer name because I am not at home currently) Apple ][e circa 1982/3 6502 processor @ 1.023 MHz 128k RAM 1 Apple Duodisk (2, yes 2 5.25" floppy drives) 13" I believe it is monochrome (green) monitor I still have the majority of the software as well ::) Last time I booted this thing was about 5-10 years ago, and it still worked like a champ. Maybe I will hook it up again this evening hehe Okidata Microline