I have an old Aptiva 486 DX2 66 Desktop model waiting for me to try to recover whatever can be recovered from the hard drive. It was our first PC style computer and we used it a lot . Fun facts: - newly booted it could run AutoCAD on the standard 4MB - of course with a giant extra 8MB it flew and was only limited by us kids knowing nothing - it had suspend/resume (!) If you hit the power button ut turned itself off a…
I had one of these as well. I don’t remember what happened to it, but last time I interacted with it was probably in 2005 or 2006. I was trying to get some MP3s off the thing (I couldn’t find them anywhere else). It was running Windows 95, so no USB. It just had a 28.8 modem, so no transferring it over the network. I ended up using WinRAR to split each file across multiple floppy disks, so I could join them back together on the other side. That was also the last time I used both WinRAR and floppies.
In hindsight, I probably could have moved the files to the D drive, installed Linux to C, got the USB port working, and used that. Or just pull out the HDD and throw it in an enclosure to use as an external drive. Oh well… the floppies work and we’re probably faster.