Wow - never would have figured such a thing would exist. That's pretty wild.

The Mediavision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 also come with SCSI controllers!

OK, I found a ISA riser card, but it is 3 slots high instead of just one.
Can I cut it down to just the one and still have it function? Or, should I just leave it as is, and build a proper case (out of what, I don't know) that is
a good 3 inches high and would give me room for the extra ISA slots?

If I fully populated the board, would the ISA slot hosting it recognize all 3 cards, or would it only work with one? How would that work?

I was able to get further into the boot process this time, now that I have a keyboard hooked up, but the BIOS (AMI 1991 vintage) does not auto-recognize the HD. The HD also does not have the drive parameters silkscreened on the top. I have no way of guessing what size it is, might be a 1 or 2GB Quantum fireball or might only be 500MB. I have no clue.
Any sites on the internet that have drive parameter info?

Thanks

Oh, BTW turns out the graphics chip is a Trident 1MB SVGA - how well off (or bad off) am I?

Thanks

Did some searching on Google and was able to find the drive parameters.
Turns out its a quantum Fireball 1.2.

Got the machine to boot now but it looks like it has SCO Unix installed on it. Probably going to wipe it since I have no clues what the logins for it are. Not to mention its not terribly useful for me (no software).

So I have a functional machine, but maybe need to replace the CMOS battery.

Is there any benefit to buying 8MB or 16MB 30 pin simms for this little guy and taking it up to either 24, 40, or 64mb? Or is that overkill? I have looked and can only find 1MB, 4MB and 16MB 30 pin simms commonly available. No clue whether it takes parity or non-parity, unless I count the chips on the simms, I guess. Odd number of chips should equal parity, right?

snorg wrote:

Odd number of chips should equal parity, right?

Any number of chips that isn't a power of 2 usually is parity 😉
Usually memory with 2,4,8,16,32 etc chips is non-parity
Memory with like 3, 9 ,18, 24 etc chips is parity

OK, thanks - any benefit to upgrading to 40MB or 64MB, or not worth the bother? This is going to be a dual boot win95 OS/2 warp box.
If I remember correctly, 95/98 doesn't make use of much over 32MB.

snorg wrote:

OK, thanks - any benefit to upgrading to 40MB or 64MB, or not worth the bother? This is going to be a dual boot win95 OS/2 warp box.
If I remember correctly, 95/98 doesn't make use of much over 32MB.

98 caps at 512 without modification. Other than that I'd put in as much ram as your board can properly cache.

more info can be read here:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/cache/charCa … eability-c.html