As I posted earlier in this thread, I saw this PC for sale online for a very reasonable price of $10; I drove out and bought it, thinking it would be a boring Pentium MMX 166 build with an S3 Trio card. I didn't really care, I was just after the inverted AT case, something I had never seen before done in an AT PC.
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I took it home, and noticed that it wasn't a custom built PC, but rather a PC produced by a local OEM (Aidata) with the model number Multima 133. Curiously I opened it up, and the contents kind of surprised me. This PC is rather far from its original configuration, and has been upgraded extensively in the 4-5 years it has been used.
The modetherboard has been replaced with a ZIDA Tomato LX98-CT, one of the more popular Celeron motherboards of the time IIRC:
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The CPU is a Celeron 400, a rather popular overclockers CPU (though what it's doing on a 66MHz motherboard, don't ask me.)
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The system had 3 128MB SD-RAM sticks installed, rather large for its time, and this leads me to believe that the configuration was used all the way into the Windows XP era.
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Now onto the expansion cards, starting from the most boring. A VIA VT6212L USB2.0 control card; I didn't have one of these, and could use them in one of my USB 1.1 Pentium systems.
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An 8-bit ISA modem. The chipset appears to be 28.8Kbps but the model number lookup returns a 33.6 Kpbs part, probably software accelerated somehow. Takes me back all the way to the times of 4KB per second downloads of disk games. I miss the times of dialup BBSs so much..
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The sound card is a Genius brand ES1868F Audiodrive. It has both an IDE header and a wavetable header. ESS Audiodrivers are a chipset I like as much as true OPL3. I owned an ES1897 card but wanted an ES1868 as well (Although I don't really know the difference between EX18XX chipsets and would love to learn), so this was a great find.
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And finally the graphics card, a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP, a variant I hadn't seen before as it has no TV-Out. It's likely an OEM card from an HP/Compaq/Dell or similar PC and bought second hand for this build. Another proof that the PC was used up until the Windows XP era as I don't see many people selling these off before then.
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All in all, a pleasant surprise for $10. Now I need to restore this Aidata Multima 1333 to its original configuration (Pentium 133) as a fun side project. It's a welcome project too, since my AT 486 build failed and I need a decent DOS PC anyway, this will do just fine I would think.
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