Reply 35800 of 53030, by bofh.fromhell
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Helped a friend with a new computer and as thanks I got given:
One Olivetti PCS P/75 Educator, not working (needed a "dallas mod") and not 100% complete (missing the soundcard).
And also a Matrox M3D in box (!).
Both bought new by him back in the day.
The CPU in it ( a P75) has been overclocked to 100MHz basically since new.
The Olivetti looks great, 100% on the outside.
Inside its now working, but the metal is slightly bent and I want to find a newer BIOS for it.
It comes with v1.12 and apparently theres a v1.13 avail, not a lot of info on this motherboard around apart from a PDF "manual" (called "BA2233").
https://secure.corradoroberto.it/doc/olivetti … tems2/cap12.pdf
And I reccon that finding a replacement soundcard will be near inpossible, "Mozart OTI 605 (MI2074)" gives no hits when searching.
And the Matrox card is just so much fun!
You're not gonna get Voodoo framerates, but image quality is just so much better.
And being able to run games at 1024*768*32 is just great =)
Should probably put it in my P3B-F testrig and do a CPU scaling test from P2-233 up to P3-1100.