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No, this is not an April Fools' Day joke. I'm serious.

I came across a Dolch L-Pac 586 a few months ago. My boss was going to throw it out, but I managed to convince him to let me give it a home. Since then, I've been wracking my brains, trying to think of a clever use for it. I have been thinking that it would be really awesome to get some sort of fullscreen digital clock program and just use it for a timekeeping device / conversational piece. (It's got an extremely sharp 9" screen - absolutely zero LCD rot.)

Anybody have any idea what I could use?

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+1 for cool idea. (And for unicorn) – Shinrai Apr 1 '11 at 22:54
If this was 14 years ago I could have written you one in C no problems! Alas, it's not. – Josh Comley Apr 1 '11 at 23:33
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An old school PC needs old school tools. Borland Turbo C was a popular early C development package. The tools have been re-released as freeware. You can download it from the Embarcadero site at http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20841.

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I think I'd like to go this route - thanks a lot! – kivetros Apr 5 '11 at 17:05
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Perhaps DOS Clock would work: http://www.thangorodrim.de/software/dos_clock/index.html

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I tried that already... it exploded. Everywhere. Not sure why or how. Thanks, though. – kivetros Apr 5 '11 at 17:04
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This is not a full screen digital clock but is pretty cool: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lcars24/

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That looks awesome. – kivetros Apr 5 '11 at 17:04
You mean, "This is not only a full screen digital clock.." – Saiboogu Aug 11 '11 at 20:21
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That 586 should be able to run DSL. Just write the clock in HTML & JavaScript and run in a webbrowser...

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