DOS On A Chip, Teardown & Recovering Their Deleted Files - Point Of Sale DOS Gaming Part 1
360I picked up an old Point Of Sale terminal for £30. It turns out it's an AMD K6-2 PC capable of running MS-DOS - so lets turn it into a DOS gaming powerhouse!
In this first episode I take a look around the various proprietary features of the DigiPOS 2000, including it's MS-DOS 6.22 DiskOnChip diagnostics and weird ports, take a look inside, and then have a poke around at all of the previous owner's old deleted files to get an idea of the history of this machine.
In the next episode I'll be adding some choice hardware upgrades to make this the gaming PC it was so obviously born to be - so hit that subscribe button so you don't miss that one!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:30 Current Specs & Planned Upgrades
01:16 First Boot - What’s Currently Installed On The HDD?
02:19 DiskOnChip Onboard Diagnostics With MS-DOS 6.22
04:47 DiskOnChip MS-DOS 6.22 - Skipping AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
05:59 Power Supply
07:42 Rear Ports & Proprietary DigiPOS Connectors
08:58 Teardown - Removing The Lid / Drives / ISA & PCI Expansion Slots
10:39 Teardown - SiS 530 Chipset, M-Systems DiskOnChip, SODIMM RAM
11:54 Teardown - AMD K6-2 CPU & Clever Cooling Design
13:23 Teardown - Proprietary DigiPOS Power Distribution Board
15:23 Cleaning & Dust Bunny Removal
15:48 File Recovery - USB IDE Adapter
16:29 File Recovery - Current Filesystem
18:41 File Recovery - Using PhotoRec To Recover Deleted Files
20:36 File Recovery - Exploring Lots Of Recovered Text Files!
23:44 File Recovery - Using TestDisk To Recover Deleted Partition
28:00 File Recovery - Exploring Old Emails & Office Documents!
35:41 File Recovery - Using PhotoRec Again On The Recovered Partition
38:12 Findings From File Recovery & Exploration
39:34 Outro & What’s Next
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Matt Large - And Then I Met You
Gregory David - Bliss
Gavin Luke - Feeling Alright
Giants’ Nest - Tiny Things
Daniel Fridell - Zone Out
Lonov - Closing Circles
The New Fools - Lost In The Right Direction
Sven Lindvall - Ernst
Lonov - Dusk Runner
Yomoti - Before Chill
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