Indeed, I recognize the Sony SD-HS73P monitor (I have the 74), but a Kayak is worth taking a picture of. 😉
i386 16 ⇒ i486 DX4 100 ⇒ Pentium MMX 200 ⇒ Athlon Pluto 700 ⇒ AthlonXP 1700+ ⇒ Opteron 165 ⇒ Dual Opteron 856
Ok, gang ... here's some info and pic's from my latest 486 rig build.
Some background first, I oiginally got this Commodore 486 pc around 20 years ago but never got around really using it much or equipping it to the teeth.
I put it on storage in 2010/2011 and it has been sitting there since I resurrected it a couple of week ago. I did that because I currently don't have any DOS machine to play games on and I have a crush for Amiga looking Commodore PC's
The case has some similarities with the Commodore Amiga 4000 computers. It has the factory motherboard made by Abit, the model "AT4".
It originally vame with an Intel 486DX 33Mhz which I have upgraded with an Intel Overdrive 486DX4 100Mhz.
The spec's:
- Motherboard: Abit AT4
- CPU: Intel Overdrive 486DX4 100Mhz
- RAM: 8MB, 8x1MB 30pin simm's
- Graphics card: Diamond Speedstar 24 ISA
- Sound card(s):
Sound blaster Pro CT1330A rev 6
Gravis Ultrasound Classic Rev 3.7
- Midi: Midia Midi Card Plus, MPU401 midi controller
- Storage controller: Adaptec 1542CF
- Storage: Zuluscsi RP2040 compact scsi to sd adapter
- I/O controller - some no-name 8-bit ISA card
- Floppy drives: 1.44MB 3.5 inch drive & 1.2MB 5 1/4 inch drive
- OS: MS-DOS 6.22 & Windows 3.11
The Zuluscsi adapter makes is very easy to add files/folders to the harddrive by mountning the image on the sd card in Winimage for example and injecting what you want.
PD2JK wrote on 2025-08-02, 17:37:Indeed, I recognize the Sony SD-HS73P monitor (I have the 74), but a Kayak is worth taking a picture of. 😉
Please see attached 😀
No interior pics - it is clean, but boring with the original airflow ducts installed.
devius wrote on 2025-08-02, 16:42:More computer in the photos would be nice.
I will have some more interior pics up when I take it apart - that is, when I decide to throw more money at it.
Current goal is some matched VRMs so I can run at least dual Pentium IIIs over 800MHz, make all the RAM modules a matching set up to 1GB, and to figure out how to get the little ethernet activity light on the front status panel to work right.
wanzerr wrote on 2025-08-03, 23:05:I will have some more interior pics up when I take it apart - that is, when I decide to throw more money at it. […]
devius wrote on 2025-08-02, 16:42:More computer in the photos would be nice.
I will have some more interior pics up when I take it apart - that is, when I decide to throw more money at it.
Current goal is some matched VRMs so I can run at least dual Pentium IIIs over 800MHz, make all the RAM modules a matching set up to 1GB, and to figure out how to get the little ethernet activity light on the front status panel to work right.
I think the extra RAM and processing power could get it *feeling* halfway modern, which to me would be pretty impressive on 25 year old hardware.
I can't imagine modernizing a 1975 computer in the year 2000, but I can see *modernizing* a 2000 computer in 2025.
Amigaz wrote on 2025-08-03, 10:58:Ok, gang ... here's some info and pic's from my latest 486 rig build. […]
Ok, gang ... here's some info and pic's from my latest 486 rig build.
Some background first, I oiginally got this Commodore 486 pc around 20 years ago but never got around really using it much or equipping it to the teeth.
I put it on storage in 2010/2011 and it has been sitting there since I resurrected it a couple of week ago. I did that because I currently don't have any DOS machine to play games on and I have a crush for Amiga looking Commodore PC'sThe case has some similarities with the Commodore Amiga 4000 computers. It has the factory motherboard made by Abit, the model "AT4".
It originally vame with an Intel 486DX 33Mhz which I have upgraded with an Intel Overdrive 486DX4 100Mhz.The spec's:
- Motherboard: Abit AT4
- CPU: Intel Overdrive 486DX4 100Mhz
- RAM: 8MB, 8x1MB 30pin simm's
- Graphics card: Diamond Speedstar 24 ISA
- Sound card(s):
Sound blaster Pro CT1330A rev 6
Gravis Ultrasound Classic Rev 3.7
- Midi: Midia Midi Card Plus, MPU401 midi controller
- Storage controller: Adaptec 1542CF
- Storage: Zuluscsi RP2040 compact scsi to sd adapter
- I/O controller - some no-name 8-bit ISA card
- Floppy drives: 1.44MB 3.5 inch drive & 1.2MB 5 1/4 inch drive
- OS: MS-DOS 6.22 & Windows 3.11The Zuluscsi adapter makes is very easy to add files/folders to the harddrive by mountning the image on the sd card in Winimage for example and injecting what you want.
got that overdrive about 5 years ago on a pc for free from a client who only wanted her info back. Quick search on ebay and they are like u$s100.
now they are AT LEAST u$s 150 without a box
the f...is wrong with people?
Living wrote on 2025-08-04, 21:40:got that overdrive about 5 years ago on a pc for free from a client who only wanted her info back. Quick search on ebay and they […]
Amigaz wrote on 2025-08-03, 10:58:Ok, gang ... here's some info and pic's from my latest 486 rig build. […]
Ok, gang ... here's some info and pic's from my latest 486 rig build.
Some background first, I oiginally got this Commodore 486 pc around 20 years ago but never got around really using it much or equipping it to the teeth.
I put it on storage in 2010/2011 and it has been sitting there since I resurrected it a couple of week ago. I did that because I currently don't have any DOS machine to play games on and I have a crush for Amiga looking Commodore PC'sThe case has some similarities with the Commodore Amiga 4000 computers. It has the factory motherboard made by Abit, the model "AT4".
It originally vame with an Intel 486DX 33Mhz which I have upgraded with an Intel Overdrive 486DX4 100Mhz.The spec's:
- Motherboard: Abit AT4
- CPU: Intel Overdrive 486DX4 100Mhz
- RAM: 8MB, 8x1MB 30pin simm's
- Graphics card: Diamond Speedstar 24 ISA
- Sound card(s):
Sound blaster Pro CT1330A rev 6
Gravis Ultrasound Classic Rev 3.7
- Midi: Midia Midi Card Plus, MPU401 midi controller
- Storage controller: Adaptec 1542CF
- Storage: Zuluscsi RP2040 compact scsi to sd adapter
- I/O controller - some no-name 8-bit ISA card
- Floppy drives: 1.44MB 3.5 inch drive & 1.2MB 5 1/4 inch drive
- OS: MS-DOS 6.22 & Windows 3.11The Zuluscsi adapter makes is very easy to add files/folders to the harddrive by mountning the image on the sd card in Winimage for example and injecting what you want.
got that overdrive about 5 years ago on a pc for free from a client who only wanted her info back. Quick search on ebay and they are like u$s100.
now they are AT LEAST u$s 150 without a box
the f...is wrong with people?
I know. I guess it is about supply and demand and retro is the new black.
I am glad I bought alot of goodies 15-20 years ago and that my missus couldn’t convince me to sell off it all during the years 😁
New (old) keyboard to go with my 386. Closest I could find to the model it originally came with when purchased back in the day. Just changing the keyboard to one with this older look, less yellowing, and no windows key has made me more interested in using this machine lately 😄
Very nice!
I love seeing those old ads. "1000% better performance" 😆
dukeofurl wrote on 2025-08-10, 21:34:New (old) keyboard to go with my 386. Closest I could find to the model it originally came with when purchased back in the day. Just changing the keyboard to one with this older look, less yellowing, and no windows key has made me more interested in using this machine lately 😄
These Beige and Brown Cases and keyboards are so Unique and Retro. I love it.
Looks like an old Mac to0, 1970-80's
devius wrote on 2025-08-11, 19:54:Very nice!
I love seeing those old ads. "1000% better performance" 😆
I can do it too. 486VLB ultra config.
Asus SIS471 lap
Intel PODP83@100MHz proci
S3805 VLB video
2x16MB FPM RAM
ALS100 hang
SMC ISA network
UMC Winbond VLB IO
Maxtor 40GB ATA HDD
Sony CDU5211 ATA ODD
Panasonic 1.44MB + 1.2MB FDD- k
200W noname AT PSupply
Noname AT midtower
DOS6.22, 7.1 + Win3.11 + Win98SE
The 3 body problems cannot be solved, neither for future quantum computers, even for the remainder of the universe. The Proton 2D is circling a planet and stepping back to the quantum size in 11 dimensions.
Makes me want to add some brown color drives and a brown and beige keyboard to my 486 and 386 too.
I think I had some on my first computer which was. 486dx2-33
Hi, here's the latest machine I've built for myself.
Motherboard: Asus P4P800 SE
CPU: Pentium 4 Northwood 2.66ghz SL6S3
RAM: 256MB
GPU: Medion Geforce4 MX460
Sound card: Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 SB0060
Storage: Samsung 870 EVO SSD 500GB
DVD drive: SONY DRU-500A
PSU: Corsair TX850M
Case: DTK branded, dated 2003
OS: Windows 98SE
I've mainly built this for LAN parties when I have friends round to play CS 1.5, Unreal Tournament and other multiplayer FPS games from that era.
Originally I put a Geforce4 Ti 4200-8x in here but unfortunately it no longer works properly. At first I swapped it out for an FX 5600 but had a weird driver issue where I couldn't increase the refresh rate beyond 75hz, which is no good on a CRT. So for now, I've settled on the MX460.
This is also the first time I've installed Win98 on an SSD. I made sure to partition and format it in Windows 10 so that the partitions would be aligned, and it's working great so far.
