I bought an unused 286 motherboard in the box on Ebay for $10. Don't know if I'll ever get around to it, but building a machine from scratch using only hardware and software from the period (in this case I guess around 1988) sounded like fun.
Talking about running an old OS on a modern machine, sometime ago I had DOS 2.1 I had found at Goodwill or something. I still had a 5 1/4 floppy around (prior to DOS 3.3 did not support 3 1/2 floppies) and put it in want I had at the time, probably a P166 or so. It booted right up. Of course any command run (that did not need to access the floppy) was just instantaneous.
Talking about running an old OS on a modern machine, sometime ago I had DOS 2.1 I had found at Goodwill or something. I still had a 5 1/4 floppy around (prior to DOS 3.3 did not support 3 1/2 floppies) and put it in want I had at the time, probably a P166 or so. It booted right up. Of course any command run (that did not need to access the floppy) was just instantaneous.
