First post, by kalyke
I found myself in a bit of a nostalgic mood lately, so I started a little retro computing project. Collecting machines I came in contact with in my early days.
One piece to the puzzle I found in the basement at work. Shortly before being scraped and luckily without a spilled battery. Not like the 5 other mainboards I came across down there 🙁.
It is an Advanced Logic Research Business VEISA 386DX 33. Here are the specs:
- ALR Power/Business Mainboard
- 386DX 33MHz Module without the coprocessor
- 64kb cache module
- 1MB onboard RAM
- currently 4MB extra RAM installed
- Tseng Labs VGA ET4000AX video card 1MB RAM
- Adaptec 1540b ISA SCSI controller
- 3 1/2 182 MB SCSI HDD FUJITSU M2614ESA
- 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 TEAC 505-000 combo floppy drive (I suspect this was not the original drive)
- ALR keyboard
After a lot of cleaning and taking everything apart (sorry for not documenting the process) I'm quite pleased with what I came up.
And it boots up!
Of course I have done some first benchmarks:
CheckIt 3.0
Cachechk 4
Looks like the cache 64k cache module is working also cachechk reports the machine does not have cache.
Thanks to 386_junkie for providing me a link to the EISA configuration utility.
What modifications are planned:
- EISA Ethernet Network Card (found an CNET 950e on ebay)
Still searching for:
- 387DX 33 co-processor
- 8bit or 16bit Soundblaster
- getting some old dos games on there
feel free to comment and ask questions.