Beautiful condition inside, and nice to get all those cards in the unit.

What OS are you going to have on it?

Ps/2 on a 386? Didn't know that was possible!

I was suprised as well, it does have two PS/2 ports though which is really nice as well as two seriel ports and a parallel built into the board. also has built in VGA with a Western Digital Paradise WD90C11 chip but I disabled that and went with the ET4000 though the WDP is a decent chip.

right now I have DOS 6.22 and Win 3.1 running.

If the no 5 1/4 drive thing ends up bothering me enough I may throw in a SCSI card and go with a nice vintage looking external CD drive and throw a 5 1/4 floppy in the open bay.

Wow that's a great little machine. The 386 I built has pretty much the exact same configuration: 386DX-25, Cyrix 387 Fasmath, 8MB RAM, Sound Blaster Pro 2.0, 1MB Tseng ET4000.

I would almost suggest going ahead and swapping the CD drive for a 5.25" floppy drive; since it has a network card and you're putting Win 3.1 on it, you could probably get it on the network fairly easily to make it easy to transfer files to it. Guess it depends if you plan on running an CD-ROM games on it.

Nice find.

I remember Wang from the TTY days 😉

Does anybody have a working acoustic modem still ?

You have a nice wang.

Your wang's got a riser!

OK I THINK WE EXHAUSTED ALL THE JUVENILE WANG JOKES

ratfink wrote:

Ps/2 on a 386? Didn't know that was possible!

I have an Amstrad 286 with PS/2 ports.

The duel ps/2 ports arnt to common and I can't find any boards that arnt OEM that that have 2. That being said I can't wait to get home and play with my Wang!

SquallStrife wrote:

ratfink wrote:

Ps/2 on a 386? Didn't know that was possible!

I have an Amstrad 286 with PS/2 ports.

😁 I forget ibm brought the ps/2 out so long ago - I see their low end ps/2's models 25 and 30 had 8086s.

soviet conscript wrote:

The duel ps/2 ports arnt to common and I can't find any boards that arnt OEM that that have 2. That being said I can't wait to get home and play with my Wang!

The thing is, they were not compatible with common AT cases (DIN-5 hole only) 😀

I never considered the whole at case thing. Surprised they never made Isa duel ps/2 port cards or is there a technical reason you can't override onboard at keyboard?

ratfink wrote:

Beautiful condition inside, and nice to get all those cards in the unit.

What OS are you going to have on it?

Ps/2 on a 386? Didn't know that was possible!

The PS/2 model 25 (which is an 8086) has PS/2 ports.

All of the personal system/2s had PS/2 ports, and they ranged with many different processors, including 386es. The clone PCs later used them as well, such as the WANG.

EDIT: you beat me to it. Heh.
But yeah, the model 25 is also unique being an all-in-one 8086, among other things.

raymangold22 wrote:

The PS/2 model 25 (which is an 8086) has PS/2 ports.

Being an 8086, were they AT or XT protocol?

I know Tandy 1000's like the RL use a PS/2 plug with the XT protocol. Thankfully the adaptor has the same pin mapping, so you can use a toggle-able keyboard without any trouble.