Anonymous Coward wrote on 2020-09-04, 00:19:
The BIOSes were not on the website, but they *may* have been on the FTP server. The website did have a copy of the user manual, which also would have been nice to have.
Thanks for the tip on the guy with the Dolch Pac60. Though I don't think I'm going to be able to contact him because I don't use twatter. I guess he might have a VOGONS account. Does nobody use e-mail anymore?
I dug around for stuff on the Pac60, but I could only come up with the brochure.
I mean I do have an e-mail (kits at that domain if you want), just don't have it linked on that site at the moment (haven't updated it for quite a while). Or I'm on here.
Do you want a dump of the BIOS for it? It's specifically a Dolch modified one for the PAC 60, but I imagine it'll work on any 486EI board (It's a 1.5 in the PAC60 IIRC). Just let me dig up the ROM dump I made when I was going about reverse engineering it to try and find why it was limited to 64MB when the motherboard is advertised as supporting 256MB
The motherboard in the PAC 60 which is labelled as a 486EI 1.5 doesn't have 3.3v regulators to the best of my knowledge, or jumpers for it. But if it did support them that'd be something I'd be interested in too. Being able to upgrade it to a 5x86 rather than a 486DX266 would be nice.
EDIT: Here's the BIOS dump I took from mine, it's a 64kB image, so I believe it was from a 27C512 EPROM or similar https://www.ckits.ca/files/dolchpac60_486ei_bios.bin
EDIT EDIT: Attached it here in case I ever re-arrange the files folder on my website. I try not to break links