Well I gave the seller a call and asked if I could have a look. He said it's been on sale for a while with no luck, but someone was coming around to buy just the tower for £20 tomorrow; if I can come tonight and pay the full £30 for the whole lot he'll cancel Guy 1. Er, tonight might be tough, I might have to move some appointments around, let me check my diary:
Anyway I survived a trip to Portsmouth with zero stab wounds and here it is:
I'll link to the album in Imgur rather than show all the photos. https://imgur.com/a/W8Jzo6z
The key bits (You guys were right about what was it in, good detective skills!) :
P54CE Rev F
6x86-PR120+ CPU at 100MHz
16MB RAM
STB Lightspeed 128 PCI
SB AWE32 CT3910
IBM DJAA-31700 1,700Mb (March 1996).
Serial mouse (very useful, i've been after one forever!)
Plastic-y AT keyboard
Speakers (no idea how these will perform tbh)
What I like about it is that the motherboard has IDE, Floppy, Parallel and Serial parts all built in. It also has SDR RAM support and the Cr2032 battery. This is my first foray into Socket 7 but it looks like a nice board to me! What is the brown slot? ...not a Slot 1 slot!?
Unusually for me I just fired it up instead of stripping it. I haven't heard that Windows 95 start up sound in at least 20 years! I was also presented with a load of Internet Explorer pop-ups, which were looking for a Freeserve connection (that was a blast from the past!), and something called Roger Wilco which I assume was an old VoiP thing. A few text screens popped up; one referenced Age of Empires which I am totally fine with 😀
Ryzen 3700X | 16GB 3600MHz RAM | AMD 6800XT | 2Tb NVME SSD | Windows 10
AMD DX2-80 | 16MB RAM | STB LIghtspeed 128 | AWE32 CT3910
I have a vacancy for a main Windows 98 PC