feipoa wrote:

That is probably the most advanced case display I've seen on any consumer 386/486. Was this case from an industrial setup? […]
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frankmonk wrote:

Almost finished my new 486 build. still need some fine tuning and of course cable management […]
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Almost finished my new 486 build. still need some fine tuning and of course cable management

Hercules MT Tower
Asus PCI/I 486SP3G using SCSI on Board
32MB
AMD AM5x86 133Mhz
Video: Ark Logic ARK2000 PCI 2MB
Pionner 305s Slot-in DVD RomSCSI
Sound 1: Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 with Yamaha DB50XG Daughterboard
Sound 2: Gravis Ultrasound Classic rev 3.7
2GB Seagate SCSI HDD (needs to be replaced by something quiter soon)

That is probably the most advanced case display I've seen on any consumer 386/486. Was this case from an industrial setup?

I've had so many of those Pioneer slot drives in the past and they always break before the tray-based CD/DVD-ROM drives I've had.

Nice clean look to the front of the case. Where's the case cover?

All I know so far is that this case was made by Hercules back in the day
I am not sure if this was an industrial or consumer case. but why it should have such a big timer and reset button for it installed for anything else than benchmarking. not sure to be honest.
DVD Rom is used barely. I guess I used it only once for installing the OS on it. anything else is being transferred via the network 😁
The cover was standing on the floor when I took the pictures.

I want to play the Gravis game too! I have one yellowed and beaten up which I use now and one sealed in box. Will pop it open on my 40th birthday in 5 years.

frankmonk wrote:

All I know so far is that this case was made by Hercules back in the day I am not sure if this was an industrial or consumer cas […]
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feipoa wrote:

That is probably the most advanced case display I've seen on any consumer 386/486. Was this case from an industrial setup? […]
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frankmonk wrote:

Almost finished my new 486 build. still need some fine tuning and of course cable management […]
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Almost finished my new 486 build. still need some fine tuning and of course cable management

Hercules MT Tower
Asus PCI/I 486SP3G using SCSI on Board
32MB
AMD AM5x86 133Mhz
Video: Ark Logic ARK2000 PCI 2MB
Pionner 305s Slot-in DVD RomSCSI
Sound 1: Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 with Yamaha DB50XG Daughterboard
Sound 2: Gravis Ultrasound Classic rev 3.7
2GB Seagate SCSI HDD (needs to be replaced by something quiter soon)

That is probably the most advanced case display I've seen on any consumer 386/486. Was this case from an industrial setup?

I've had so many of those Pioneer slot drives in the past and they always break before the tray-based CD/DVD-ROM drives I've had.

Nice clean look to the front of the case. Where's the case cover?

All I know so far is that this case was made by Hercules back in the day
I am not sure if this was an industrial or consumer case. but why it should have such a big timer and reset button for it installed for anything else than benchmarking. not sure to be honest.
DVD Rom is used barely. I guess I used it only once for installing the OS on it. anything else is being transferred via the network 😁
The cover was standing on the floor when I took the pictures.

Those large buttons look like the stuff that was kinda like a layer of rubbery material covering smaller buttons.

That case looks very nice! I also like how the 3.5in little cover plate has the matching stripes, my guess is it probably came originally with the case.

This machine has been promoted to my Main Machine from the 200mmx i used frequently.

As much as i feel that its a great machine, The sound element always changes. As it currently stands

AMD K6III+450@550mhz
128mb Ram
Chaintech 5RSA2 MATX Ali V Motherboard
3DFX Voodoo 4 4500 AGP
Adaptec USB 2.0 PCI Card
Creative Soundblaster SB16 CT2230
Music Quest MPU401 Card
Panasonic 5 Disc Multichanger
80GIG WD Hard Disk
Chieftech M-ATX Case (Its nice and small)
300Wat FSP PSU
Win98 SE

I'm looking to switch the sound out to the following and try SoftMPU for my MT-32

Aztech Waverider 32
Soundblaster Awe64 Gold with Simmcon with 32mb Ram

I want to also install some sort of FSB switching to change between the FSB. I have the header for the Motherboard, just need to come up with a nice and tidy switch panel.

oeuvre wrote:

ah man nothing like those Chieftecs

The only sys that I have with the CS 601. 😁

So many incredibly beautiful beige cases here <3

My latest project is this Dell 486 I bought without RAM/CPU for cheap and then fixed it up. After replacing the PS fan, adding a DX2/66 CPU and 40mb RAM, it's up and running with Windows 3.11. Both the 5.25" and 3.5" drives work. Added a CF card for the hard drive, along with a Soundblaster 16, Diamond Speedstar 2mb video and 3com ethernet.

beautiful! Those old Dells are legendary

Not quite as nice as most of the stuff in here but here are two of my builds:

Intel Pentium 133 MS-DOS circa 1994

AMD K6-2 Windows 98SE circa 1997

appiah4 wrote:

Intel Pentium 133 MS-DOS circa 1994 https://s5.postimg.org/dba76nfyr/AIDATAP133_01.jpg […]
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Intel Pentium 133 MS-DOS circa 1994

I dunno what it is about these cases, but I love them. Looks like you've done some nice work with organizing the wiring in that smaller case too. 😀

Bancho wrote:

Panasonic 5 Disc Multichanger

That thing looks awesome!
Couldnt find one on Ebay 🙁 You know if they are rare?

Since I own about 30 oldies and loved reading through the last few pages I thought I can give something back 😁
I normally introduce these in the german voodooalert forums, so that this a modified copy/paste.. I hope I did all neccessary translations throughout the post 😁

Here's a pretty interesting Multi-3D machine:

OS: Windows 98SE without SP

• CPU: AMD K6/300 (Little Foot)
• CPU Cooler: Cooljag Copper Cooler
• Case: AT-Tower Mini
• Mainboard: DFI K6BV3+ Rev. A1 (VIA MVP3)
• RAM: 128MB NoName PC100@66 CL2
• Grafics: ATI XPERT @ PLAY 8MB AGP (Rage Pro Turbo)
• 3D Accelerator: Orchid Righteous 3D 4MB (Voodoo Graphics)
• 3D Accelerator: Videologic Apocalypse 3D 4MB (PowerVR PCX1)
• MPEG2 Accelerator: Creative Encore DXR3 (CT7260)
• NIC: 3Com Fast Etherlink ISA 10/100
• Sound: Terratec EWS64XL w 32MB RAM and Frontpanel
• HDD: IBM Deskstar 25GP [DJNA-352030] (UDMA66 / 20GB / 5.400RPM)
• ODD: Pioneer DVD-106S (ATA66 / 16x/40x DVD-ROM)
• PSU: 200W Fortron/Source (SPI-200G)
• FAN: 80mm Papst

Photos:

Boot Menu:

DOS EWS64 Menu:

Tools Menu:

Desktop:

DVD Playback Software (the Screenshot sadly didn't pick up the movie, so a photo next to it) :

Watch the CPU Load, the Creative Encore does a good job 😀

Explorer:

Device Manager:

Display properties:

3DMark99max ATI Rage Pro Turbo (800x600x16):

QuakeGL Orchid V1 (512x384x16):

QuakeGL NEC PCX1 (512x384x16):

PCPlayer D3D Bench ATI Rage Pro Turbo (640x480x16):

PCPlayer D3D Bench Orchid V1 (640x480x16):

PCPlayer D3D Bench NEC PCX1 (640x480x16):

(Die PCX1 unterstützt nicht alle Features, siehe Screenshot)

Norton Utilities 2001 Systembench:

Speedsys Systembench:

HDTach:

the last piece of the puzze is done, an early 7200rpm hdd from 99. 😀 here is my 1999q4 rig again.

and a bonus bootup video 😀
https://photos.app.goo.gl/4UPLmIYtJAN258eM2

1999 Q4 - Pentium III
Windows 98 Second Edition
Asus P3B-F rev 1.04 Intel 440BX
Intel Pentium III 700B SL3XM
Toshiba PC100 SDRAM 8ns 64M x2
Asus V6600 32M AGP NVIDIA GeForce 256
Diamond Monster 3D II 12M PCI 3Dfx Voodoo2
Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3910 ISA DSP4.13, CT1747 OPL3
Gravis Ultrasound Plug & Play 1.0 8M ISA
Creative Sound Blaster Live! CT4620 PCI
IBM Deskstar 34GXP DPTA-372730 27G IDE
HP E118405 4x4x32x CD-RW IDE
In Win IW-A500
Enermax EG365AX-VE(G)

only the psu is not authentic, but this is the one of the latest good quality psu with -5v. maybe i will do less risk with it.

HPI wrote:

SPEC PC9821 XT13/C12 PENTIUM 133>>>K63-400 millennium MGA-2064w 4M 64MB CDROM 4X SCSI-2 HD 36G MPU-401 PC-FXGA WIN95 […]
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SPEC
PC9821 XT13/C12
PENTIUM 133>>>K63-400
millennium MGA-2064w 4M
64MB
CDROM 4X
SCSI-2 HD 36G
MPU-401
PC-FXGA
WIN95

Does matrox millennium MGA-2064w 4M accelerates some games for PC98*?
i mean, is there games designed for this accelerator ?

arncht wrote:

the last piece of the puzze is done, an early 7200rpm hdd from 99. 😀 here is my 1999q4 rig again.

Beautiful photo quality and an excellent machine - quality components all round and much fun to be had with a machine from that era; great for DOS too.

The only thing I'd change would be to swap out the Live! for a Vortex2 based card 😀

Thx, i took the photos with my mobile 😁

I planned with ghz p3 and gf2gts, but i felt a little bit overkill for the w9x area, and the actual is more bx autentic and still 90s. I wanted to cover the 90s, but finally i build a dx4 too - anyway the p3 coverage is quite good for dos games and demoscene.

I have a mx300, but i prefer the live, it works better in a more soundcard setup.

My retro rig number one.

Specs:
- MOBO socket 7 something
- 48 MB RAM
- CPU 166 Mhz
- ISA Sound Blaster 2 CT1600
- PCI VGA S3 Trio 64V+
- Floppy, floppy emulator, CD-RW
- 2GB SD card on an IDE SD memory card adapter
- OS: DOS 6.22

^ Very nice, specs and all! I always liked the look of those cases too. Bonus points for the "TRON" badge, haha 😜

Thanks. That is one of a few gaming rigs i have. I will post the photos of other gaming rigs in time. The "TRON" badge is real though. It is/was a brand of a firm, that was selling computers in my country. After all these years (20+) it adds a little more to the nostalgia feeling.

appiah4 wrote:

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Elan Vital! Man, ahh... how I loved those! 🤣