By the way, here's the physical harddisk drive, I am using within my virtual 86Box DeskPro 386/25 configuration. It's an old CONNER CFS420A from 1993 and its geometry closely matches Compaq's fixed disk "type 38", even though this one only uses 315mb of space.

Close enough! 😜

#86Box #Emulation #Retro #RetroComputing #Harddrive #DOS #Compaq #DeskPro

Setting up a virtual Compaq Deskpro 386/25 using yesterday's boot diskette and the latest 86Box. I added a 25MHz 386 CPU, a 387 co-processor, 4megs of RAM, VGA graphics as well as 315MB of disk space.

So far, everything works. This is fun! 😃

#RetroComputing #PCDOS #Compaq #Deskpro #386DX #Retro #80s #90s #DOSGaming #RetroGaming

Computer updates 2/24/12

https://makertube.net/w/7qyHk4JE1bjGv6dV9yE8XY

After tons of trial and error, I finally got the 86Box VM configuration based on the #Compaq #DeskPro 386/20e up and running (the actual computer is based on the May 1988 model, but the settings are what a 386/20e would've had back then), complete with the Compaq OEM version of MS-DOS 3.31.

I might as well share the magazine advertisement for the DeskPro 386/20e, which boasted quite a lot; high performance, expandable memory, and VGA graphics, just to name a few.

#retrocomputing