First post, by cj_reha
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This is my second build. Today, we're going farther back from Windows 98 and going to roughly the mid 90s with "The Kraken." 😈
Firstly, it's named so because of the massive full tower case it's in. 😲 This thing is something like 3 feet tall! I bought it NIB from eBay for about $100 a few months ago.
I have not yet finished assembling it, but so far these are the specs.
AMD Am486DX4-100 @ 100 MHz, Write Through cache.
64 MB 72-pin FPM RAM
Trident TGUI9440 1 MB VL-Bus video card (Update 3/15/17, Trident card replaced by S3 805 VLB card. Works fine.)
Creative Sound Blaster 16 CT2290 sound card
DTC DTC2278D+ VL-Bus I/O controller
PC Chips M912 v1.7 motherboard
Conner 250 MB IDE hard drive (Gonna add another one soon, this will probably just be the OS and drivers disk, the other for games)
"Turbo-Cool" 300 Watt AT PSU (This thing has a fan speed adjust knob, and at the lowest speed it's freakin' loud and moves a ton of air, at highest, it's a jet engine! 🤣 )
BTC 40x CD-ROM Drive (Primarily used for file transfer since it is a pretty fast drive.)
Creative 4x CD-ROM Drive (Going to be used for games, also the drive hooked to the sound card with the CD audio cable.)
Panasonic 1.44 MB 3.5" Floppy Drive
I plan to put a 5.25" floppy drive in here someday but since I am currently fresh out of working units I will wait a little while and buy one.
"Encore" brand 10Mbps NIC card (may be removed, I probably won't use networking much but it's nice to have in there)
WINMAN MIDIMAN ISA MIDI card (I don't have much MIDI gear so might be removed)
I have formatted the hard drive and all I need to do is get DOS and Windows on this baby 😈
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