First post, by AlessandroB
My IBM PC330 P75 has finally arrived.
The computer is really really beautiful (i will posto some pics later) , much more compact than the 350 series which has an extra 5 1/4 slot and a few more ISA slots. The computer was used in a beauty center very little and located inside a professional machine. Its condition is incredibly like new. Not even a speck of dust despite having 26 years of life! It looks like it just came out of the factory. I was the first to open the chassis, it is complete in all its parts, a wonderful collector's item.
But now we come to the advice I ask of you:
1)the computer is socket 5, it allows the bus at 50, 60, 66Mhz, there is also a fourth undocumented combination of the two jumpers that select the bus, but the computer just turned on shows me a generic "keyboard error", do you have any idea of because?
2) for now I will use it with the Pentium 75 which I find very cool, very close to the 486 DX2 I had to play as a kid, but still with an edge to play smoothly. The maximum CPU that can be installed is the P133, I don't think I'm going very far in the age of games, let's say 1997/98 maximum. Do you advise me to install a voodoo1? It now has a 1 Mb S3 Trio64.
3)It has no second level cache, but it has 11 weird slots for memory chips (SMD memory chip socket type) similar to those for video cards, accepts 256k or 512k of L2 chache, do you advise me to install it? if yes, how much?
4) I have a Sound blaster 2.0, a Sound blaster Pro 2.0 and an SB16 Value (CT 2770). I chose to insert the SB16, did I make the correct choice? Other tips?
5) I want to keep a mechanical hard drive, currently it has a 640 mega drive with IBM DOS 6.3 and Win3.11 installed. I would like to back up the disk so that I can restore it inside the same disk or inside a bigger disk while keeping the ability to boot, how do you advise me to proceed? At the time I seem to remember using a bootable CD-Rom with ghost. Is it the best solution? is there a more practical one? It is difficult to pu out the ide disk and it would be difficult for me to connect it directly to my Win10 PC (an HP Microserver).
6)To copy the data inside the computer I thought of 3 possible scenarios:
A) a Compact flash on the second ide channel which is seen by the system as D: from which I then copy the files to C: or I create the installation diskettes, this requires every time the computer to be turned off and the CF extracted.
B) A USB PCI card which, however, would require the installation of Win98SE to be able to copy the files.
C) using the network with WIN3.11, but it seems to me that it is very difficult to copy the files from WIN10 to WIN3.11. I would prefer choice "C" but I'm not sure it's feasible.
For now, thanks for your advice.