Got my hands on a 80286 the other week, and have been tinkering and having lots of fun, but forgot how painful and cumbersome things used to be; BIOS doesn't have a built-in menu but has to have setup run from disk, the 5 1/2 inch floppy drive doesn't read disks anymore because it's been bumped or something, thank god there's a 3 1/2 drive that works, but hold on it's not 1.44mb but 1.2mb so that causes its own issues trying to transfer things from PC, the hard drive is so small (20mb) that it can barely hold anything and so you have to make a decision if you want to sacrifice performance and install DoubleSpace/Stacker to compress the whole drive to gain more space etc etc :) another fun thing I learned is that you can use Hydrogen Peroxide, UV lights (and/or sunlight) and cling wrap and restore old discoloured computer plastic parts (keyboards, cases, drives etc) to new looking!
Aha, I know how does it feel! I have my first programs lost on a bunch 5 1/2 inch floppies, which, I know, will require some serious tinkering. I hope one day I will feel the urge to go after all of this.
I also have a collection of 8 inches floppies that belonged to my father. However in that case accessing them again would require some sort of "computational archeology". To begin with I don't even have any longer 8 inches drives... :-)
