i am really happy with my 386 after the last few days
its alot faster than i had thought previously
when i last tried to use it with win3.1 it was brutally slow
i didnt realize that the system was running a disk compression software called "dblspace"
and didnt realize that the hard drive inside (120mb) was incredibly slow
now that im using it with 512mb SD card for C: drive
and i reinstalled DOS 6.22 + WFW3.11 .. wow! it actually boots faster then my 486dx2-66
really glad i got this piece of early 1990s history..
http://arvutimuuseum.ee/th99/m/P-R/32175.htm
my board has 8 slots! 6x 16bit and 2x 8bit slots
running with ET4000 Tseng VGA from A cardinal VGA732A/1MB card
and 16bit winbond i/o controller
i love that it gives me full 8 slots yet its small like a microATX (i guess its BABY AT form factor?)
when i finally get it working with a good CDROM + ZIP100 Internal drive i will be very happy indeed!
and will have to backup my autoexec.bat + config.sys + c: drive image
beauty.
if anyone can school me on anything else i should do.. would love to hear some suggestions
my i/o controller only seems to support a single hard drive.. everytime i try to connect a master/slave configuration it doesnt ever autodetect the slave
i need to get another IDE port(s) that is ATAPI compatible that will see a zip100 drive or a modern CD/DVD rom
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