1987 computer serving a site from floppy!

This old 286 computer running at 8 MHz, with 1 MiB ram and no hard drive (the OS, all software and the site is on a single floppy!) still serves a purpose by acting as a fully functional web server running DR-DOS. Also includes a description of how to build your own server on an 8088 or newer, and links to all software required!

This makes me want to start up my 486 running OS/2 ver 3 again – just to see how quickly my internet connection would go down!

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