High Treason's Museum

Systems

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High Treason's Museum - About this site

About the museum of electronic trash

Why? Just why?

This site was put here because I wanted to put it here, no other reason. It may or may not be useful and is more than likely one of the most nerdy things you will ever see. On these pages you will find in-depth information on my collection of old computers, synthesizers and various other devices of interest... or you will if I ever finish this site.

What's here?

Each system and even some of the components have their own page with photos, ramblings, specifications and analysis for your reading and viewing pleasure. Many of these things either have appeared, or are planned to appear on my YouTube channel.

Why does the site look this way?

This website uses minimal HTML and is completely built of static pages (unless I go nuts and integrate some CGI elements... Not likely) which should load in most browsers. All images used on these pages are in either GIF or JPEG format and the HTML is very simple. You should be able to view these pages in Internet Explorer 4.0 included in Windows 95C right out of the box. The pages will also be tested with Arachne and Mosaic 3.0, though their guarantee of compatibility with very old browsers is not guaranteed and the layout will almost certainly be broken. Some images may be in PNG or BMP format but these will be through links and won't display on these pages. This site's look was styled after Windows 95 and Windows 3.11. Strangely, the tables don't display correctly in Chrome as the grid is visible and I cannot make this go away. Ugh, these things have only been standardized since like 1995. It still works fine, the gray lines just bug me. Wonder how far back I can go before nested tables don't work?

How is this site special?

There are many sites like this one, but this one is different. Under normal circumstances this site - that is, this museum - is served to you from a computer running MS-DOS. It so happens that this is what is going on right now and your computer has been talking to one from over a quarter of a century ago to bring back these pages. When maintenance is required or the pages are due to be updated you may be served pages from a more modern system, or not at all, but this is not currently the case.

System Serving Pages

The computer which served you this page is an 80286-8 running a JNOS Server on MS-DOS 5.0. This system should have its own page soon. Of course the negative side of this is the fact that the computer can be slow if it is under any significant load. As noted above this site has a light footprint (comparatively) and this very page should even be able to load within ~35 seconds via a 28.8Kb/s Dial-Up connection. Of course some of the system pages will take longer, as they contain quite a few images, but attempts were made to optimize them. Unfortunately the previous server, Hayley, a 486DX-33, suffered spontaneous motherboard failure and is no longer operating.

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