Having look at the CDS524 and giving it a bit of a house clean. Mobo just slips out the back by undoing a couple of screws, after removing any connectors. Removed the modem(which will not be reinstalled and the D-Link 220 nic. Out with a soft artists brush and at quick dusting and give the edge connector a clean. All in all it's in good shape apart from the issues I mentioned previously.
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These CDS500 series all-in-ones came in various configurations such as having TV/Radio tuners, in built modems and other features. They have ESS ES688F AudioDrive sound built in with Cirrus Logic GD5424-80QC-C video with 512k of vram. The system came out and was sold in early 1995. It is a good set up for those with the lack of room.
Mine has a cd rom reader, forget what speed but replaced the original SB one so I could read RW cds and the standard issue 3.5" drive behind the lower front facia. You can just fit a generic one in by either adapting it to fit behind the facia or making a cut out in the facia to suite the drive. No special connectors just standard ribbon cables and power connectors for the fdd, hdd and CD reader.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉