Non-yellowed case and floppy drives (Ye-data 1.2MB 5.25" especially) are looking cool.
What you have is:
- A nice 386 mobo with an AMD 386DX-33 CPU (strange, since their -40 processors are much more widespread), a matching IIT mathco, some amount of cache, and a non-leaking battery. You don't need to replace the battery, but you can just remove it. The 4-pin connector (with a missing pin) besides the power connector is an external battery box connector. You can find a 4xAA battery box just for this purpose.
- Trident 9000 VGA board with 512KB memory. Drivers for this (windows 3.1/3.11) is available in Vogons Library. You might want to find a better card though, at least with a 1MB memory (1024x768 in 256 colors needs that much at least)
- A floppy/HDD controller card and a multi I/O card. I don't know if you have the serial port bracket on the case, but in any case, the two headers on the top back corner of the I/O card are for serial ports (named as ASYN1 and 2)
- You can add a CD-ROM drive of course. Your exisiting controller has only for 2 IDE devices, so you can add a CD-ROM if you only have a single HDD. Be carefull about slave/master jumpers, since those old HDD drives has sometimes not only slave/master settings but a third option which is "master with a slave drive". You can also add a sound card with IDE header as a second option for CD-ROM drive.
- I don't know how much RAM do you have on that board but you can easily have 64MB since OWC still has 16MB 30pin SIMMs. You need to populate 4 banks, since the board will require you to do so (16 x 4 = 64)
- Your best bet will be MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.1. You can even find a ISA Ethernet card and prefer WfW 3.11 for network capability. It's fun to connect to the internet and browsing the net with IE5.5 or Netscape 4.x..😀
An absolutely great find. Please don't hesitate to ask away anything, I love those 386 machines and I recently completed two builds already, so I have some fresh information on how to deal with most of the things...😀
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120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
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MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000