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First post, by arncht

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Boot noises:
https://www.instagram.com/mylittleretrocomput … el/DIjNFYUuQoE/

Socket 4 (Apr 1994):
Intel Pentium 60 CPU
Glued heatsink +45mm fan CPU cooler
Asus PCI/I-P5MP3 (Intel 430LX) mainboard
OKI 16M FPM RAM
Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM 2M PCI (S3 Vision864) VGA *
Creative Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 sound card
Gravis Ultrasound 1M sound card
DTK PTI-227B V2 ISA (Winbond W83757F) controller
Asus PCI-SC200 PCI (NCR 53C810) SCSI controller
Quantum ProDrive 1800S 1.8G SCSI HDD
Sony CDU-77E 4x IDE CD-ROM *
Panasonic JU-475-5 FDD
Mitsumi D359T5 FDD
Leadman case
Leadman LP-510 PSU

* not period correct

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Reply 1 of 5, by chinny22

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Wish I was your friend back in '94 That thing would have cost more then our car!
We got our 486/66 in '95 and that was the fastest computer in my circle of friends for a few (although we were not computers at the time)

Reply 2 of 5, by arncht

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chinny22 wrote on 2025-04-22, 23:25:

Wish I was your friend back in '94 That thing would have cost more then our car!
We got our 486/66 in '95 and that was the fastest computer in my circle of friends for a few (although we were not computers at the time)

I had a 486dlc in 94 😀 and updated to dx4 100 in 95.

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Reply 4 of 5, by Intel486dx33

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My friend use to work at Quantum.
From what I remember the IBM SCSI drives were the Best performers.

Reply 5 of 5, by arncht

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2025-04-23, 10:19:

My friend use to work at Quantum.
From what I remember the IBM SCSI drives were the Best performers.

To find an authentic highend hdd, which is in a good condition, is never easy. This hdd was ca 1300 usd in early 94.

My little retro computer world
Overdoze of the demoscene