Reply 8000 of 27550, by shyember
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My Acu-MOS AVGA2 card arrived, so I was able to test my Dolch 386-P.A.C.
It boots! But it doesn't find the hard drive, even when I enter the parameters for it. 😢
The motherboard battery (a Dallas unit) is quite dead, but it has an external battery header, so I can hook up a few AA batteries to it via an adapter.
It's a 386SX-16 with 387 FPU and 4 MB of RAM. Since it runs, I ordered some parts for it: a 512MB disk-on-module, Dos 6 on 5.25" floppies, and an ESS-1869 soundcard.
Looking forward to discovering just how pathetic this little cacheless, 16-bit-bus 386 really is. 🤣
I'll need to replace the fan in the power supply if I'm going to be running this for extended periods of time, but I'll burn that bridge when I get to it.
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