First post, by brostenen
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- l33t++
I have begun to build my 486dx33 system, that I have gathered parts for, during the last year or two. The idea for this build, is to make something that was purchased by those who wanted a highend machine around 1990/early-1991. Of course I can not source strict era correct parts, and because of that, some parts are mid-90's. As an example, then the motherboard is from around 1995'ish and the memory is 72-pin. While other parts are from around 1991. In other words, then I wanted to do a pre-VLB 486 system, that have the spec's of a 1990/91 system. (specwise/featurewise)
Spec's:
- ISA Motherboard with 256kb Cache.
- Intel 80486dx33 with Cooler. (To keep heat from killing nearby components on motherboard)
- 16mb Ram. (Way overkill/expensive back then)
- Tseng ET4000 ISA card.
- Standard ISA Controller card.
- Jazz16 soundcard.
- 512mb CF-Card as harddrive. (Problem sourcing a working 250mb harddrive)
- 8x Speed Goldstar CD-Rom Drive. (Slowest drive I have, that are working)
- Floppy drive. (At least that is era correct 🤣)
Note: This is my personal interpretation on what a butt-load of cash would get you around late 1989 to early 1990. And as there is a lot of pictures taken, during this build, then I will be doing this as a kind of build-log.
First up: The hardware selection...
More pictures in next post...
EDIT:
I have changed the years from 89/90 to 90/91, after some research.
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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