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A tear down and rebuild for a 1998 IBM 380XD and OpenBSD installation.

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First post, by tripcodeq7

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So, I bought a bricked parts unit a while back to fix my 380XD.

Originally I meant just to replace a broken ribbon cable, and a compact disk drive, but the cmos battery connector broke off, so I ended up doing a complete tear down.

So specs:
Pentium 2 300mhz
160MB EDO memory
Neomagic MagicGraph128XD
CS4237B audio controller
32gb msata SSD

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Hey at least having to rebuild it again lead to some good photos 😁

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Finished Product:

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Rebuild Video:
https://youtu.be/9iFGXeG0wco

Later I might try to do some sort of dual boot system, but at the moment it is just running OpenBSD 6.5.

Reply 1 of 3, by Intel486dx33

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I think 46mb or RAM is the Max.
Mine have 32mb. of SIMS plus 16mb. onboard = 46mb. Total

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IBM Thinkpad 380 to the Max.

Reply 3 of 3, by Intel486dx33

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I am running an original install of Win95 so 46mb. Of RAM Is enough for me.

Link to install CD:
https://archive.org/details/thinkpad380rec

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