Just thought I’d put up some pics of my new potential project - a circa 1996 AcerPower desktop system. Don’t know much about it as I pulled it from a skip (wish you could still pull stuff like this out of skips 🙁 ) but it does work save for the hard drive is nearly dead.

It’s in really nice shape with very little yellowing and no visible cap damage but does have a dead Dallas chip I need to rectify at some point.

Only 2 issues with the case are that it has moveable feet to use it in a horizontal or vertical format - which is pretty cool but somehow the little “blanks” for the unused slots have somehow gone missing since I picked it up - a purely cosmetic issue but a shame nonetheless. The second issue is that it has some kind of cut or gouge to the plastic top of it that looks like someone could have accidentally done it with a soldering iron or something - I’ll have to have a think about that one. I don’t think I could plastic weld and paint without it looking like crap so I might just cut the section out and fit a fan there.

I think it’s got a 100mhz Pentium in there and I expanded it to 96mb RAM. It has onboard Cirrus Logic 5434 graphics and unknown onboard sound. Might be a good candidate for using a Voodoo card with the onboard video but I’m not sure yet if the CL5434 is up to the task.

It’s a potential project for a new 3D card and sound card plus a new Dallas chip and hard drive and a general spruce up - I’m also working on another socket 7 build atm so we’ll see how things progress, I doubt I’ll keep both when they’re done.