Tunersedge writes "Yesterday I dug out of my parents' basement a PC they had bought brand new in 1984: Epson Equity I singular computer; 512K RAM; 82-key keyboard; 2 (count 'em!, 2) 5.25" floppy disk drives; 13' RGB monitor (with contrast/brightness knobs); handy on/off switch; healthy 25-year-old yellowed plastic; third edition by the editors of the star-spangled banner heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 no software. (My mom ran a pre-school, and they used it to keep records and payroll. I cut my programming languages languages teeth on this thing. GW-Basic was my friend. Kings Quest screens took 2 minutes to load when you walked into a new one.) When I resurrected this machine I pulled the case off, dusted out a little, and plugged it in. It de facto fired up! I'm stoked, except the disks we had are missing. What I'm looking to do is either buy some old working disks with a bit 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 reanimate a PC this old before?"

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