oh another SBC build! nice one! I like how everything is tiny, even that monitor - a cashier's one?
Interesting SoC/CPU from ST I think I saw someone with a dev board of it some time ago. Even if that doesn't work out there are plenty 486 SBCs out there - just be prepared for 95% of them to have an ALi chipset 🤣 🤣 🤣

keropi, no, this one pulled from laser engraving machine. I think most of old CRT POS displays is B/W.
Did you mean something like this? 😉


Hopefully it driven by VIA Venus chipset. Anyway i prefer that modern SoC because it gives me much more sharp picture.

I really like that setup and that small screen makes all vga stuff look like 1080p graphics 🤣
Yep, plenty of boards like the one you show. As a sidenote I did not think much of the ALi chipset but having used a couple of SBCs that have it I must say I am impressed. If you think about it these SBCs are built to last and be as stable as possible (they are not 100$ boards after all) so there must be a reason many chose the ALi chipset.

Without spending much money I ended up with 3 of those 486 SBCs that all works pretty great without issues

But my setup is more boring than yours - small but you've set a new bar 🤣

I need to find one of these small 9" color vga crts now 🤣

Hi, aleksej!

So nice to finally see your PC on such detailed photos!

What's that wrap cover you have over your keyboard? As I understand it is to keep it pristine, but doesn't it obstruct typing? The material looks like hard plastic.

TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane) soft cover. Usually they are made for specific model.
https://www.datacal.com/p-498-cherry-ml4100-k … keys-cover.aspx
Each key under this type of cover should be pressed individually. Really soft keypresses, very handy thing. As you can see on photo it fixed by adhesive side in bottom.

Some alternative has arrived.

IBM/Toshiba 4820-1WD - TFT color POS monitor.
10.4", 800x600, 4:3 aspect ratio.

Unfortunately doesn't have yet monitor stand for it. Anyway looks not so bad i think.

With this monitor complete setup can be transported to nearest geek lanparty with any trivial street backpack. 😀

Sorry, forgot to make any photos in action.

One of the nices simple retro pc! 😀 like mc im loving it 😀

Question regarding the case, im not that guy but i would want to ask what price tag it has.

Last seen on ebay was sold for about 45$ for used.

Aren't the CPUs integrated into some of those STpcs basically Cyrix 5x86s running at 133MHz?

Wow, those boards aren't exactly cheap.

Super cool little machine though! If only all our stuff had been so small back in the day. I can't begin to count how many times I carried my PC to a friends house for lan parties. Always went twice, one for the tower and one for the CRT.

aleksej wrote:

Last seen on ebay was sold for about 45$ for used.

I bought that one, 🤣. Currently building one with a Pentium MMX 233MHz.

I keep looking for a nice mini crt like the one aleksej posted but nothing so far...
In an unrelated note I do have the Sertek S521 sound card that I bought recently - but mine is a version with ESS688 + real opl3 . Finding working ESS688 DOS drivers is quite a challenge though....

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Aren't the CPUs integrated into some of those STpcs basically Cyrix 5x86s running at 133MHz?

yeah something like that... there is also an ALi chipset that has a 386sx core inside so you can't see a discrete cpu on the board 🤣

I have been looking on few sbc cards but some of them have a tl-5186 battery which just looks funny, any one know if its possible to change them to cr types ?

to be exact:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Advantech-PCA-6145B- … ksid=m570.l1313

And thinking about adding 256mb diskonchip for C:

I have the PCA-6144V that had the same dead battery , I replaced it with a SHAFT LS14250 one , just wired an external holder and called it a day
http://uk.farnell.com/saft/ls14250/battery-li … dard/dp/1282760

I got my and on one of the sbc boards on ebay for the haft price, it comes with a backplane but still need to find a nice small box to.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ktgAAOSwywRaD56J/s-l1600.jpg

Its a aton systemes sbc450 ciu04015-c now i just need to get the manual for it hehe

Also if some one knows, whats they power header up to the right for? powering without panel or extra power?

Powering to work alone, without passive backplane. Keep in mind that regular power adaptors with molex like this one not providing enough power for it.

Very nice machine especially in combination with that little screen!
Could you post a screenshot of SpeedSys?

Codename: "farty"

It seams to be hard to come by a good case when living in Sweden, most of the time the shipment has the same price tag or higher then the product and on top of that we have import charge if it isnt bought from EU.

Finally today i found a case that has been on ebay for a time which is a bit "higher" since it has a middle level between backplane and psu for harddrive, after looking at it for some time i notice it had a sbc and a 4 slot isa backplane in it and two other non intressting cards, so i got happy since im awating my 486 dx2 66 sbc.

After googling compare the image of the sbc that came with the box i notice it was a Advantech PCA-6751 😀 sure the case was a bit higher that i wanted but for $121.88 with shipment and import charge i cant be sad any more 😀

Now my plan will be try to find a case with pci and isa backplane and switch the pca-6751 with the 486 sbc so i can use the pca-6751 with a 3dfx card and still have two units that are as nice and beautiful as your system 😁