First post, by 90skidJohnny
Greetings all. Ive been searching for a 486 for sometime, in the wild. pretty much never find anything. Been looking for 3+ years. Found some other cool stuff, but not what i want.
However, recently, someone at work brought me a box of Parts and stuff that was headed to the dump. Jackpot.
Notably, Inside was a 486 Board with CPU and Memory. (to note, it actually has one of those evergreen 586 cpus)
And Also a Pentium Class board. (also with p1, memory, etc)
Both systems are pretty neat, but id love to get this 486 board working, but... one draw back to that.
Everything is ISA. No onboard video, no PS2 port, just tons of ISA ports and VLB.
The downside to this, is cost, of me getting everything really needed (I have no ISA stuff currently) Oddly enough, i was searching for a board that accepted ISA, but also PCI.
The pentium board however, has both, PCI and ISA (not VLB). This one would def be cheaper to get up and going.
If money were no object, id just go right to ebay, order a ton of stuff for the 486 and be done. But, At this point, buying all these cards, it seems it might be cheaper to just outright buy a system (And then id have a case!)
What kinda drawbacks you think I would come accross with the pentium board? Def wanna get an ISA sound card, but Im really looking to run older stuff. IE, All the great apogee games, and stuff generally from 91-94. Nothing really 3d
Any input / advice would be cool.
Edit: Also this is the 486 Mobo Im working with .. http://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/486vlb3/ali1429g.html