First post, by oerk
So, in about 1995 my father won a computer in a contest and gave it to me. It was a UMC U5S 40MHz VLB system in a multimedia computer case with built-in speakers, sold by Neckermann (I think) in Germany. For those that don't know, the UMC U5S is essentially a 486SX, slightly faster clock-for-clock than the original. It was pretty clear they were clearing out old stock since a 486SX was already very underpowered for 1995.
In '96, I upgraded the computer to a Soyo 430VX board with AMD K5 100MHz, 16MB (later 32) EDO RAM and Elsa Winner 1000 graphics card. This was sold only a year later when I started my IT training to be replaced with a K6.
I've recently rebuilt the K5 stage as faithfully as I could - with help from elianda, from whom I got the exact same case I had.
Specs:
- ASI multimedia case with built-in speakers
- Soyo 82430VX mainboard, forgot the model name
- K5-PR166 (bit more power than the PR100 I had originally)
- 32 MB EDO RAM
- Elsa Winner 1000 - S3 Trio 64, 2MB
- Shuttle HOT-233, OPTi 929 based sound card. Real OPL3. With Dreamblaster S1 (had a really crappy wavetable board in the original computer)
- IBM 8GB IDE HDD (more space and more speed...)
- 4x CD-ROM
- CF to IDE adapter