Sometimes, you never know what you're going to find, when you go outside. I went for a walk today, and there was a sidewalk sale outside one of the homes near where I live. One of the items for sale: A Dell Inspiron 3000 (Pentium MMX 200mhz) with 80MB ram, and a 2GB hard drive for £75. I figured "ah, what the heck, why not?"
Huzzah! It's in PERFECT WORKING ORDER! The only thing wrong with it, is the same thing that happened to all Dell batteries back then: it's drains normally until about 30%, and then just unceremoniously SHUTS DOWN. So, you kind of have to use the power supply to be safe.
The dilemma I face: Do I leave Windows ME on this thing? Or, do I replace it, with maybe FreeDOS or a copy of Windows 98 or something else?
It came with Office 97, which has the original CLIPPY! Would be a shame to blow that away. Also, it has a working copy of Cakewalk! I haven't seen Cakewalk in decades. I'd lose that too.
Still, It would be fun to see if I could get the BT Wifi PCMCIA card working under FreeDOS.... Would FreeDOS even work on an original Pentium? I don't even know...
[EDIT] OOOhhh! I know what I could put on this! OS/2!! That would run fantastically on this!