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Showing off some hardware I picked up recently

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First post, by lordbritish

Posted on 2012-03-28, 04:08

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Hello.

Noob to the forums but I love nostalgic gaming and hardware.

I started with an Amstrad Mega PC which was a 386 SX20 and my mum paid a small fortune at the time.

I love the 486 era. Fell in love with Ultima 7 Serpent Isle and it all started from there.

Recently picked up these bits and pieces for next to nothing.

Nothing overly special but Im happy with them. All working.

Not sure what to do with the Pentium 2 400 running a business copy of windows 2000 pro.

Really happy I picked up the 486. The IO card has ram on it also which is a cool find.

The compaq desktop has a cool little flip out mechanism so the drive bays come out and you can work on them easily. But theres very little room for multiple hard drives.

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Reply 1 of 5, by shspvr

Posted on 2012-03-28, 04:23

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Where did you say live at.
By the way is that a SCSI card with memory

Reply 2 of 5, by FGB

Posted on 2012-03-28, 05:22

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That's a nice find. These cache controllers were very expensive back in the days. You can even do mirroring if you like. And you will crush the 504MB boundary as the cache controller has its own BIOS.

@shspvr

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It's a Tekram DC680C E-IDE cache controller with 286-20MHz CPU (bottom left) for the cache strategy. A very nice Vesa Local card.

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Reply 3 of 5, by keropi

Posted on 2012-03-28, 06:17

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a cache controller with a 286 on it? heh that's strange, the most usual thing to find is a cpu/controller that has a way different architecture than the target system....

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Reply 4 of 5, by AdamP

Posted on 2012-03-30, 01:55

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Which model of Compaq Deskpro is that? The case looks just like mine (which was originally also a Pentium II 400) except the button and lights are in the middle instead of at the side. I've seen a few Compaq Deskpros that are slightly older than mine like yours as well. It looks a bit different on the inside. Though I once had a Compaq Deskpro that used a riser card, but it died.

Reply 5 of 5, by lordbritish

Posted on 2012-03-30, 21:33

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I believe its a Compaq Desktop EN series 6400.

I flashed the bios and gfx card so i hope thats what it is 😀

Working great

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