So I've recently acquired this vintage machine. I was told it powers on but since I'm away from home, I have no means to test it.
So it's a Rem station? I've never heard of these computers before and I can't find any information about them online. I'll probably be able to test it or take it apart next week but in the meantime I was wondering if anybody here had come across these or knew anything about them?
Never heard of the brand either. Which part of the world is it (or are you) from?
Judging by looks it's a late 386/early 486 workstation/server that has been upgraded during its lifespan (that CD Rom drive looks newer than the floppies). Do you have a pic of its rear? That would show ports and possibly more info.
Never heard of the brand either. Which part of the world is it (or are you) from?
Judging by looks it's a late 386/early 486 workstation/server that has been upgraded during its lifespan (that CD Rom drive looks newer than the floppies). Do you have a pic of its rear? That would show ports and possibly more info.
I'm in the UK and I got it from someone over here but not sure whether it's ever travelled far.
I thought so for the CD drive being added at some point later since they weren't really commonplace when I'm guessing this thing was new. Here's the rear with no shortage of expansion slots and a nice bit of rusting around the fan grill 😂
Regarding what it was once: someone had the same question about a similar machine a few months back on Reddit. In fact I think it's the exact same one (see the horizontal scratch/scuff mark on the lower right of the front bezel). No more info though there...
But looking at the back, whatever it was, it isn't anymore now. That empty slot cover up top and non-matching one below it suggests it used to have more cards and indeed a motherboard with a LOT of slots, suggesting a motherboard with fewer onboard functionalities. Now it just has a VGA card, sound card (looks like SB 2.0 or SB Pro (1 or 2)) and what could be an I/O card, but I suspect is just a serial+parallel bracket for onboard I/O. My guess is that this was somebody's 386 workstation/server that has been upgraded to a pretty generic early Pentium board (50% chance of i430FX chipset, 25% chance of i430VX) and donated to then children for gaming.
Looking though old British PC magazines from the early 1990s would be your best bet.
I also have an obscure British OEM computer from the 1990s. I was able to find its original specs and price on a hardware database included on a PC Today cover disk from 1992. (I can't find any "REM Corp" machines in the database though. Your machine probably postdates this.)
ETA: It might be useful to list all the companies that have 386/486 computers listed in this 1992 database:
1Ace Computers 2AGATECH 3Anglo European Systems 4Applied Micros 5Apricot Computers 6AST Europe 7Atomstyle 8Base Computers / Base Computer Services 9Brother 10Cavendish Electronics 11Centerprise 12Challenger Business Systems 13CIC Computers 14Colossus Computers / Colossus Computer 15Comet Data 16Commodore 17CompuSys 18Computings 19Dan Technology 20Dell 21Dolan Computer Systems 22Dram Electronics 23DS Computers 24Elonex 25Express On Line 26Flag Technology 27Gandlake Software 28GHS Technology 29Giga Computers 30Graham Jacobs 31Hewlett-Packard 32Hi-Grade Computers 33Hobbykit 34Jupiter Computers 35Kamco 36KJD Computer Systems 37KT Computers 38Locland Computers 39Lofgren 40MCB 41Mesh Computers 42Micro Corporation 43Micro Mart Europe / Micromart (Europe) 44Microlight 45Microsolutions 46MJN Technology 47MSA Computer Centre 48Multiplex International 49NAGA Electronics 50Opal 51Panrix Electronix 52PC Now 53Pericom Technology 54Puters 55Silicon Valley 56Simply Computers 57SMC Computers 58Sphinx Microsystems 59Stefanali Bespoke Systems 60Supreme Computers
ETA2: This is the British PC Today, not the American one. It was formerly called Personal Computing or PC and was published by Database Publications/Europress.
