Reply 32880 of 45991, by CharlieFoxtrot
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Cuttoon wrote on 2020-03-07, 20:06:Possibly the power switch part was made of a different ABS with higher bromite content.
My thoughts exactly. I still find it peculiar, that it is for some reason the only (and small) part of the chassis to get that treatment.
In my experience, the three main criteria for OS compatibility are RAM, RAM and RAM. Decent VGA also helps a lot. But Win95 was supposed to run on a 386, after all.
Nice box. I'm more of a Compaq man myself. 😀
RAM definitely is major factor, but with just 16MB I would've expected a 486 struggle more. Then again, I had 16MB in my Pentium also back in the day, and it was fine.
I would like to have similar Compaq too, as I adore my Presario 425 AIO and my Armada in the sig is one fine laptop too. But I got this HP so cheap, that I couldn't resist as I was searching for a pizza box style 486 from 66MHz upwards. Vectra has definitely same design philosophy as similar Compaq machines and MB has pretty much same general design as Presario 425 has. Even construction has somewhat the same feel when it comes to the use of plastic, metal frame and so on. Although Compaqs are one of my favourites, I must admit that I am not that fond of their bios setup partitions, which most of them have at least starting from ca 95-96. It is in my opinion one of the most idiotic design choices ever implemented to PC computers. Otherwise 80s-90s Compaqs are finely crafted machines 😀
- Celeron 300A@450 : 256MB : 80GB : DVD : Riva TNT : Voodoo2 : SB Live! : SB AWE64 Value
- Compaq 425 : SB16 CT2290
- Sun Ultra 60 : UltraSparcIIe 450 : 2xSun Creator3D : 2x36GB SCSI 10k
- Digital DecPC 425SE Color
- Compaq Armada 1700