First post, by ux-3
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For the time being, my 486 is completed. Based on a Shuttle HOT 409 V2.2 with 8 MB and an AMD 40 MHz 486 cpu, it uses an ISA ET4000, a SB16 CT-1740 DSP 4.04 and a DB60XG clone. I've followed various suggestions here and eliminated the old hard disk. I now use a 1 GB CF card in a back slot card holder. I can only use 503 MB on the card, but it only takes seconds to pull the card and move it to my other PCs. So file transfer and backup is simple and quick. Should the 503 MB ever run out, a second CF card should keep me going.
For the sake of compatibility, I pulled the 5.25 drive and replaced it with a DVD drive. I know that is sort of anachronistic, but I need a CD drive and I have a lot of software/utils stored on DVD as well.
The whole thing comes in a cute small Baby AT desktop case. The case is somewhat different. Lid and plastic are grey, but the entire front is covered with transparent black tinted plastic shields. They can be slided or opened to access turbo, reset and drives. Under the tinted plastic are lighted "turbo", "power", "40 MHz" writings.
All seems to be working. Since I am notoriously low on space (have a real life too), I consider trashing the old 200 MB and 2.5 GB HDDs.
I also have an S3 VLB card, but found some issues with it.
