First post, by Tenorman
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Hello All,
We bought a new house last year. The previous owners left an old computer (along with a bunch of garbage) in a crawlspace in the basement. I finally dug it out last week to see what it was. The computer was sitting on the old cabinet in the back.
It is a Compaq Presario 633 circa 1994. It would have been a relatively low-end model for the time as it has a 486 SX and no CD-ROM or sound card.
Specs:
http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Compaq/ … quickspecs.html
As you can see, it is was very dusty. I cleaned it up and was able to boot it without any trouble. I snooped around a bit. It looks like this computer was used mainly for Quicken, keeping track of a bowling league, and playing card games.
I believe the hard drive is going bad and probably was even before this computer was "put away". It is extremely noisy and there logs from several scandisk runs on the root of the drive.
I went on eBay and did a little shopping. I might have gone a bit overboard. My goal is to do a few upgrades and turn this into a decent 486 DOS gaming box. Some of the things I would like to play are the old Sierra and Lucas Arts Adventure games and a few of the early FPS games (Doom, Heretic, Dark Forces).
What I ordered:
-2x 4 MB 72-PIN RAM sticks. Will bring it up to 12 MB which should be more than enough.
-IDE to CF Adapter
-4 GB CF Card
-IBM branded ISA sound card with ESS 1868F chip.
-Adaptec AVA-1505 ISA SCSI controller.
-Generic external SCSI CD-ROM drive (I want to add a CD-ROM drive, but only have two drive bays and I want to keep the 5.25" drive).
Now I just need to wait for all this stuff to come in the mail so I can put it all together 😀.
[Compaq Presario 633 | DOS 6.22 / Win 3.1 | DX4 100 Overdrive | 28M RAM | SB16 CT2770A | SPEA Media FX (Soundscape S2000) ]
[GA-6BXC R2.0 | Win98SE | Via C3 Ezra 866 | 384M RAM | TNT2 32M | Voodoo2 8M | SB32 CT3670 | Ensoniq Soundscape Opus]