First post, by Unite
I recently got myself a new toy in the form of an olivetti M300-02. The machine is a 386sx at 16mhz. There is 2mb of ram soldered on the board and there are 2 simms installed in the expansions with the computer reporting a total of 4mb. The original 40mb hard drive works fine and is actually very quiet. The floppy drive is slimmer than your typical drive and it seems faulty so will need looking at. I may replace it with a gotek but I'd prefer to get it working if I could.
The machine works fine but I want to expand it a bit and in particular I need a means of transferring data to it and it needs a sound card.
So.... There are 2 16bit ISA slots in which I intend to install a sound card. There is a spare 5.25" bay so I was considering installing a CD drive and getting a sound card with an IDE header for it. I was wondering if the on board IDE header would support 2 channels? The 40mb HDD works fine and I'd like to keep it for nostalgia reasons but I'd like to add a CF card as that is probably will be the easiest method of transferring data.
The motherboard supports up to 10mb of ram. Presumably the 2mb on board and then 2x 4mb simms. Would anyone know what type of memory is used?
There are 2 empty sockets on the board that in the manual are labelled as video. Presumably for video memory? Again would anyone have any idea of what would go in here?
Finally there is a pin header labelled feature connector. Any idea what this would have been used for?
and finally finally is it worth adding the 387 co processor?
Sorry for all the questions but any help would be appreciated.