First post, by Brickpad
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A relative of mine found this at the local dump. There's nearly not a single scratch on it, but did sustain some minor damage to one of the expansion slots, which was easily fixable, and missing a 5.25" bay cover. It appears that someone had thrown the monitor while still attached to the computer, bending the VGA slot bracket and cover, and snapping the screws that held the VGA connector to the port. I replaced it with an RS232 bracket and screws, and straightened the slot brace.
Hardware-wise the CD-ROM drive was having intermittent read issues, which I replaced with a 40x I had on hand, and wired a C2032 battery and holder to the external battery header. In the front of the case I installed an 80MM fan in the empty fan bracket to cool the giant passive heatsink. Gets mighty toasty inside without it! The power supply fan barely moves any air, which I almost mistook as non-functioning. Might have to replace that down the road.
The funny thing about this machine is that it was very clean inside, and well taken care of. Powering on the machine revealed it was running Windows 95b, and was still actively used, from what I am assume, as a gaming machine up until about 2013, judging by the time stamps. I can't imagine why someone would throw such a beautiful machine out.
[I'll finish uploading the pics once Photobucket decides to work again.]
The original specs:
Processor: Intel i486DX2 66MHz
RAM: 8MB (2x4MB Hyundai 72pin SIMMs)
Cache: 0KB
Video: Onboard Cirrus Logical CL-GD5424 1MB w/ offboard VGA connector
Sound: Sound Blaster 16 CT1740
Hard Drive: Quantum Fireball 540AT 540MB
Optical Drive: Creative Labs proprietary 2x CD-ROM
Floppy Drive: Teac 3.5" 1.44MB
Upgraded Specs:
RAM: 16MB (2x8MB Unknown Brand 72pin SIMMs)
Cache: 256KB
Video: ATI Mach64GX 2MB ISA
Optical Drive: Toshiba XM-6402B 40x CD-ROM
Network: Linksys EtherLAN 16
Floppy Drive: Teac 5.25" 1.2MB
