Se[BBB]e's 286 Web Server

Believe it or not, this page is brought to you by a 1987 computer. It doesnt have a harddrive, and everything it needs,
including this page, is on a single floppy disk!! Operating System (DR-DOS), server application (EZ-NOS),
packet drivers, this page and the image. It's reading the floppy as you read this text!

The specs are as follows:
IBM PS/2 Model 30
286 processor running at 8 MHz
1 MB RAM
1.44 MB 3.5" floppy drive
Etherlink III network card

Someone is probably saying HEY!! That Model 30 on the pic has a hardrive! Well, no, it doesnt. It's the actual server serving this page, but the harddrive broke down and I had to remove it for it to boot properly. So it's a single floppy system now. I dont hear it complaining though :-)

How I did it:

Requirements:
An 8088 CPU or newer
640 KiB RAM
720 KiB Floppy drive or a harddrive (Dont tell me you have such a luxury item =P)
A network card and packet driver
EZ-NOS (download + howto here)

It's actually very easy to do this. I just installed an Etherlink III, got the drivers and followed EZ-NOS' howto for the server software. It creates a bootable floppy with all required software, and over 1 mb free space (if you use a 1440 kb floppy, 720 kb is also supported) for the actual site. Of course, you can also install it to a harddrive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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