I had '15 and had main filter capacitor burst. Open it up and find the large cylinder capacitor, this one is bad. Something like 200V to 250V 400uF to 680uF or so. This is primary capacitor filter in hot side power supply near the AC plug. BTW '18 is very nice monitor that does SVGA 800x600, than …

Hi all, I got my hands on the monitor in the title recently. When plugged in and switched on the green LED just blinks constantly. No activity on the screen whatsoever and no static on the glass when switching off. When connected to the VGA port of my (modern) PC set to 640x480 it exhibits the same …

5DA0283C-32DF-4E56-8F6C-3D1835FDC8BA.jpeg 5991F496-2760-4097-B5DF-9A89C8CDCAEE.jpeg 5FEA225C-98DA-4D35-81D0-B83C72A83457.jpeg 58C5EAE4-C34D-4053-92E2-556232EF35F5.jpeg I managed to get a couple of pictures of the two choices I have. One seems to be PGA-168 in an adaptor, the other PGA-132 with a …

Not sure about the MakeIT, I only know these for 286 and 386SX. However, you can just replace the 386DX with a 486DLC. No special adapter required. Picked up “80486, TX486DLC/E -33GA, 486DLC, Vintage CPU, 486 with 386 pinout, GOLD” for $20 on eBay just now, will that do as a backup in case my plan …

Thanks so much for the quick reply. I’m willing to take a chance and buy it, just the guy has two versions of it, one is slightly smaller with a strip chip on top and the other is larger with no chip. Apologies for not being very helpful, I’m sort of at sea about it :) I will certainly check out a …

matze79 wrote: Now add a MakeIt 486 with internal Clock Doubling 😁 Hi! Apologies for raising an older thread but I have an option to buy a MakeIt 386 to 486 DX SXL2-50 and am wondering will it work in an IBM Model 70 386?

Hi all, my name is Mark, I’m new to here, interested in all things old but of course a little knowledge is a dangerous thing! I’m waiting for the system in the title to arrive, it’s a Type 8570 386DX, 6MB RAM. I’m wondering could anyone help me figure out if a Make IT 386 to 486 (dx slx2-50) would …