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dabone

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I was driving home today and saw a yard sale 2 blocks from my house and grabbed this pc for 10.00.

I went home and connected it to my 55" TV.. (hehe...) and it still worked fine.

Intel 486/66 DX2, 8MB Ram, WD 520Meg Hdd, 1.44 and 1.2 Meg floppies, and a floppy controller Qic Tape backup.
PCI based MB, with cache, 4 72 pin dimm slots. 94 date code on the bios.


I ended up grabbing an extra ide to cf adapter out of my stash, copying the HDD over to a 2gb cf card, and then I bought a copy of retro city rampage (MS DOS Version).

http://www.retrocityrampage.com/

Much fun to be had for cheap.
Now if I can remember where I stashed those isa sound cards I had...


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Later,
dabone
 
Classic!

It's amazing how those things keep on ticking! :)


dabone said:
I was driving home today and saw a yard sale 2 blocks from my house and grabbed this pc for 10.00.

I went home and connected it to my 55" TV.. (hehe...) and it still worked fine.

Intel 486/66 DX2, 8MB Ram, WD 520Meg Hdd, 1.44 and 1.2 Meg floppies, and a floppy controller Qic Tape backup.
PCI based MB, with cache, 4 72 pin dimm slots. 94 date code on the bios.


I ended up grabbing an extra ide to cf adapter out of my stash, copying the HDD over to a 2gb cf card, and then I bought a copy of retro city rampage (MS DOS Version).

http://www.retrocityrampage.com/

Much fun to be had for cheap.
Now if I can remember where I stashed those isa sound cards I had...


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Later,
dabone
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Is the dallas clock/battery socketed or soldered on to the motherboard? If it is soldered on then you might as well kiss the motherboard goodby when it dies - which should have been years ago unless it was stored in a refrigerator or something.

Other than that, nice find! Excellent nice looking generic AT case and a (Teac?) 1.2mb drive. Absolutely a keeper.
 
Is the dallas clock/battery socketed or soldered on to the motherboard? If it is soldered on then you might as well kiss the motherboard goodby when it dies
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Why is that, won't it just quit holding cmos info?

If so, turn on, select drive types and reboot. Not a huge deal. (it has auto detect for the hdd.)


Later,
dabone
 
dabone said:
Why is that, won't it just quit holding cmos info?

If so, turn on, select drive types and reboot. Not a huge deal. (it has auto detect for the hdd.)


Later,
dabone
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Results may vary, I've had flat Dallas units cause continual reboot loops by not being able to maintain the settings on warm reboots.
But even if that happens, it's not a dead end street. You can cut in to them, disconnect the original battery, and solder on a replacement.

Ref: http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2009-10-10-renovating-a-dallas-battery-chip.htm

It's nice if they're socketed because then you can remove the module and you'll be less likely to slip and damage the motherboard.
 
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Nice score and great looking machine. Back in the day when Doom came out I played it for hours on my 486DX2/66. I still have the cpu from that machine. It's all that remains of it. Doom ran ok on it from what I remember.
 
dabone said:
Why is that, won't it just quit holding cmos info?

If so, turn on, select drive types and reboot. Not a huge deal. (it has auto detect for the hdd.)
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Some BIOSes will refuse to completely boot if the battery is dead. If you change anything in the setup it will just reboot and forget it all.

I *used* to have a nice little 5x86 motherboard like that with one of those chips soldered on. But a year or so ago when I went to test it, the battery was finally dead. In retrospect perhaps I should have tried the cutting method, but the chip was sandwiched between the ISA slots, so I thought it would be easier to de-solder it. Wrong! Those 1990s era boards are designed to suck the heat away from hot surface mounted components. After much futzing it looked like I got it unsoldered from the bottom and the chip seemed to come off until I noticed a bunch of broken trace wires still stuck to it.

Now, if it is in a socket, you can still buy new Dallas/Odin replacements but they cost a bit.
 
tkc8800 said:
Nice score and great looking machine. Back in the day when Doom came out I played it for hours on my 486DX2/66. I still have the cpu from that machine. It's all that remains of it. Doom ran ok on it from what I remember.
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Yeah, I remember when I upgraded my 386/25 MB to a 486 DX2/66 just to play DOOM! In comparison DOOM screamed on the 486 !!!!
 
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