So... I'm new to this whole thing of 386 and retro gaming and computing. It cost me a lot of time and took a lot of effort but man I'm satisfied with the results. The Hard Drive was the most challenging because I had to manually dig out data sheets regarding compact flash parameters as well as read up on LZone and WPComp. I think about 2 Flash cards were sacrificed to the Low Level format Gods (I learned that those are gods that do not need to be sacrified to). Now she's up and running. Love that <10sec boot time on DOS 6.22. Also reasonably quiet, with the fan making a nice nostalgic hum.

Specs

• CPU: Intel 80386 @33MHz
  Motherboard: OPTi 386WB
  Video Controller: Western Digital WD90C30-LR 512kb version
  RAM: Generic 16MB off eBay
  Hard Drive: 512MB Transcend Compact Flash Solution with bracket adapter
  Hard Drive Controller: Generic FanCard controller
  Sound: Planned- OPTi-82C930 Current- PC speaker
  Networking: Linksys Ether16 LAN
  External Storage: One Mitsubishi 1.2MB 5.25" floppy, one Mitsumi 1.44MB 3.5" floppy, One Samsung CF-140 40X CD drive

Without further ado, the build pics:

All in all I'm very happy with her. She doesn't have a sound card yet but I've recently ordered one (the one that showed up was both A. Not what was ordered and B. Dead on Arrival.

Hopefully with that last built it should be complete then I can see what I was catching the tail end of in my childhood.