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First post, by gex85

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Today I want to show you my 486 that just got a significant update sound card wise.
I've had this machine for quite some time now and used it rarely, but a few weeks ago I found a scrap lot as described in this post: Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
When it arrived, it turned out that both the GUS and the Roland SCB-7 were damaged, which lead to this thread: Identifying components on Gravis Ultrasound MAX Rev. 1.8 and Roland SCB-7 - and ultimately to the successful repair of both cards.

So on that occasion I decided to clean up the Hyundai, give it a fresh install of MS-DOS and throw both cards in there.

The specs are now:

  • Hyundai 466G, Model "4000 Green"
  • Gigabyte GA-486VS motherboard (ISA + VLB)
  • Intel 486 DX2-66 CPU
  • 40 MB RAM
  • 512 MB CF card (IDE adapter)
  • Tseng ET4000AX ISA graphics card
  • Generic VLB floppy/IDE/parallel/serial controller (Promise PDC2030 chipset)
  • Sony CDU33A 2x CD-ROM drive with 8bit ISA controller card
  • 3Com Etherlink III 509B network card
  • Creative Sound Blaster 16 CT2230
  • Roland SCB-7 MIDI daughterboard
  • Gravis Ultrasound MAX Rev. 1.8

Running MS-DOS 6.22, maybe I'll go with Windows 3.11 as well. Setup was relatively painless.

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My retro computers