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First post, by SilverHawk

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Well, not quite a dream machine, but good enough for me. Rescued this thing from a warehouse environment. Blew out all the years of dust from running in a "dirty" environment. Came with memory, CPU, PCI Mach 64 GT, 24X Mitsumi CDROM, 3.5" floppy, and 3.5" NEC ZIP drive. Here it is as it currently sits. There are a few notable non-period correct parts, but convenient/tasteful upgrades.

ASUS VX97
Pentium 200MMX
64MB EDO
6GB Maxtor HDD
54X Mitsumi CDROM
3.5" NEC floppy
3.5" Card reader drive
Diamond V330 Riva 128 PCI
AWE64 Value

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Reply 3 of 6, by SilverHawk

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chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-08-13, 14:18:

Nice find/rescue. And pics of the inside?

I added one pic. I am embarrassed by the cable management, but I had to make do with the cables I had available. Besides, I never cared about cable management in my youth. It is more period correct this way. HAHA!

Reply 4 of 6, by Intel486dx33

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Depends on what OS you are running ?

My first pentium computer was a Pentium 150MHz running WinNT-4.0 and it served me well. I was able to do all kinds of stuff with it
Because the the versatility of the OS and multitasking power of the Pentium.

Reply 6 of 6, by SilverHawk

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gerry wrote on 2020-08-14, 08:44:

a fine rescue job! Great for that early win9x / late dos era of software

Thank you. It wears the battle scars well. I was not sure how the black drives would look, but they seem to accent the black LED panel well.

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