First post, by jwt27
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Got this 386 system a while ago for free, so far it's only been catching dust here. Figured I could do something with it, still not entirely sure what though...
Here's the case up front. Pretty simple and generic looking.
Case. Clean. Tiny. Looks nickel plated. No rust.
The mainboard. This thing is TINY! Again, looks pretty generic.
EWWW. Need to get that fixed ASAP. Looks like only the external battery connector has been destroyed though.
The "everything-controller". COM, LPT, IDE, floppy, it's all there!
Music?? No, this is actually the VGA card.
The power plant, and chipset chip thingy. AMD Am386SX, 33MHz, no FPU.
Memory. 4MB total or so. Look closely... someone's been practicing his soldering skills there.
From what I can tell, the chip polarity has been reversed... Not sure why someone would do that though.
Comments and advice on what to do with it are welcome 😀