First post, by oeuvre
- Rank
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Found one, had to pay a bit more than I liked for it but whatever. These machines are really cool. Also, if you ship out desktops DO NOT pack them in broken pieces of styrofoam. It got everywhere inside the machine and the power supply.
A lovely machine restored to good health.
IBM Aptiva 2176-C73
Intel Pentium 200MHz
64MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (was 16MB)
256K cache via COAST module
3.5" floppy drive
8X Hitachi CDR-7930 5.25" CD-ROM drive
3.5" IBM DAQA-32700 2.5GB 5400RPM hard drive
MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows for Workgroups 3.11
2MB ATI Mach64 GT onboard video
4MB Matrox Mystique 220 PCI video card
YAMAHA YMF-719 OPL3 ISA sound card (replaced an IBM Mwave modem/sound card combo, gross)
Kingston NE2000 clone ISA network card
Replaced internal fan with a larger, quieter one
Not complete yet, just want to add another hard drive for Windows 95.
Some areas were yellowed more than others, like the floppy drive bezel.
After a retrobright, good as new!
the rear
naked
the guts
More guts... this setup makes it annoyingly difficult to clean.
IBM DAQA-32700 hard drive. Interesting drive placement.
Matrox Mystique 220 4MB PCI video card. This card actually wouldn't boot but flashing a newer Matrox video BIOS fixed it. Details here Matrox Mystique no video
Trusty input devices, an IBM Model M and a PS/2 Logitech optical mouse.
BIOS system info
NSSI
MS-DOS 6.22 + QEMM + mem
defragged!
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
and here's a bonus!
HP Z420 Workstation Intel Xeon E5-1620, 32GB, RADEON HD7850 2GB, SSD + HD, XP/7