First post, by Cosmic
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This is a silly post, but I was curious if anyone else feels the same way.
I picked up a clean 486 PC from an estate sale this past summer, it even came with the keylock key. It seemed like a system someone bought new and upgraded a few times over the years but otherwise was stock. I swapped the ES1869 AudioDrive for an Intel EtherExpress 8/16 to do some setup and testing over the network, but having no sound is a bummer. I want to put my SB16 CT2290 (1993) in this rig but also keep the network card, which means I'd have to pop out one of the stock slot covers.
This is silly, but I almost feel bad popping out a slot on this otherwise super clean AT case. 😂 It'll never be able to go back to it's original config, you know? At least one of the slot covers under the VGA card is already kind of loose, so I'd probably put the network card there, and the SoundBlaster at the bottom.
Anyway, just wanted to share this nice AT case and see if anyone else hesitated to make a one-way change to an old case like this. Case badge is from Geekenspiel. Cheers.
Original specs:
- Mobo: DTK PKM-0037S, SiS 85C461, PGA 168 (BIOS 1993, chip 1994)
- CPU: 486 DX-50 (SX710) (1991)
- RAM: 8MB 30-pin FPM (1994)
- IO Card: Relialogic CA9342 ISA (1993/1994)
- Disk: Quantum Bigfoot 1.2GB (1996)
- CD-ROM: Teac CD-W58E (2000) (Maybe was replaced later)
- Sound: ES1869 AudioDrive ISA (1996)
- Video: Cirrus Logic CL-GD5426 VLB (1993)
p.s. happy DOOM day!