NAS Forum

Hello!

So I've been a long time lurker on this forum for the last 17 years... and I started off on the forum as a NAS-1000B owner (I've owned other models since then).

Back in 2008 I was always in debt to HWguru for getting me out of some jams (both on the forum and in private message!)... e.g. https://forum.nas-forum.org/index.php?page=Thread&postID=857 and https://forum.nas-forum.org/index.php?pa…ead&postID=1446

I found a NAS-1000B on eBay the other day... and it has still got the box, but it's unlikely to be new.

I've stupidly bought it!... I think purely out of nostalgia? Am I going mad??

They were never that powerful, and obviously IDE... but I was thinking it might be good to go with the other more "retro" stuff I've got like 486's and other machines running Win98/XP.

It's really nice to see this forum still running... especially if I run into problems with it (again).

Any tips for getting back into the world of NAS-1000B? ... does someplace still host all the files from back then??

Obviously the quest isn't to make it super secure, or even super modern... and come to think of it I'll probably have to find an old IDE disk for it

Well it's arrived and it does appear to be completely new, complete with everything sealed inside with all the original contents!
Yeah an IDE drive will be fun to find... but without it, it'd lack authenticity. I sometimes still use them in the original Xbox I hate, but really I could drive that thing from something else at this point... so I may take the hard drive from that.
Does anyone know where I can still find the alternate firmware that I used to use back in the day?

Well I powered it on yesterday and it seems to work just fine... after all this time unused!

HWguru: Do you know where I can still find all the nas-2000 alternate firmware files for it? (as archive.org doesn't seem complete)
I'd also love to be able to swap back to the original firmware... so I might try to see if I can get a dump of it too.

Yeah I use Linux as my main OS on my normal desktops / laptops... but if I was doing file sharing I'd normally turn to NFS. At the moment i use a Synology DS1518+ for that stuff.
No the NAS-100B was bought to be used with some retro hardware (think of late 90's beige tower PC's running Windows 9 and for that it works as well as it did back in the day!
I'd still like to get a hold of the alternative firmware i used to use back then though

AH! It was supposed to say Windows 98 ... but because I put a close bracket after the 8, the forum showed it as an emoticon... silly really!