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First post, by kingkoolkris

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Hi everyone, this is my current build:

Case: Highscreen Colani Bigtower
Board: HOT433 (don't know exactly which one, it says LiteOn on the back, maybe someone is able to identify it)
CPU: AMD 5x86 133 ADW
Graphics card: Matrox Mystique 2MB (I have a Tseng ET6000 which I'd originally planned for this build, but itdoesnt seem to be working properly atm)
HDD: 10,2GB Seagate
RAM: 32MB EDO-RAM 60ns (single module)
Screen: Samtron 17" 765BDF CRT (FD type....not time accurate but CRTs are so hard to find here in Germany I was lucky to get one at a decent price)

I've had this setup for years stored in my basement and a week ago I decided to get it running.
The Dallas RTC battery was depleted obviously, so I more or less successfully applied the CR2032-mod (which cost me some nerves not being a talented craftsman...) all settings are kept as they should.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to get DOS installed onto it, without having floppies and install some games from my Bigbox-Collection 😀

Reply 1 of 5, by dominusprog

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The bottom part needs a retrobright, but other than that it's a very nice build.

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A-Trend ATC-1020 V1.1 ❇ Cyrix 6x86 150+ @ 120MHz ❇ 32MiB EDO RAM (8MiBx4) ❇ A-Trend S3 Trio64V2 2MiB
Creative AWE64 Value ❇ 8.4GiB Quantum Fireball ❇ Win95 OSR2 Plus!

Reply 2 of 5, by kingkoolkris

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Thanks! The whole tower needs some brightening indeed, but I'll do that later on.

Reply 3 of 5, by Brawndo

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Cracks me up, some of the towers back then were just laughably large. I remember browsing the computer shopper catalog back in the day and seeing all those massively tall computers for sale, and man did I want one.

Reply 4 of 5, by PD2JK

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Nice to see a good preserved / restored Highscreen Colani. 👍

i386 16 ⇒ i486 DX4 100 ⇒ Pentium MMX 200 ⇒ Athlon Pluto 700 ⇒ AthlonXP 1700+ ⇒ Opteron 165 ⇒ Dual Opteron 856

Reply 5 of 5, by kingkoolkris

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Brawndo wrote on 2024-08-29, 04:29:

Cracks me up, some of the towers back then were just laughably large. I remember browsing the computer shopper catalog back in the day and seeing all those massively tall computers for sale, and man did I want one.

Bigger meant better back in the 90s 😀

I also got my Hercules Dynamite 128/Video (TSENG ET-6000) working now. One socketed upgrade MDRAM-Chip which I installed some years ago (2 to 4MB) had one pin bent. Now it's fixed and working without graphical glitches.