First post, by tizzdizz
Hey guys, I have this Data General Machine that I've gotten running on Dos 6.22. May install win3.1, or possibly Win95 if it's up to the task. Currently it's set up with:
-Single Pentium 100 CPU
-112MB ram
-on board video (unknown board/chipset, apparently Intel) with 3x PCI and 6xEISA
-Soundblaster 16
-SCSI controller (not in use)
-3.5" floppy, 56x CD rom (not period, but more functional)
I'd like to beef this thing up and fully utilize the dual socket motherboard. I'm sure it would probably run win95 as is, but what's the fastest dual CPU combo that would work?
The main goal is to play old LAN games with my brother. I gave him my HP Vectra with a P-150 in it, which has 64 megs of ram, 1MB onboard video, and runs well. I just want them to be roughly comparable with one another.
By the way, this thing weighs a TON. I thought about selling it, because it's pretty big for the space I have it in, but it's just too well built and heavy to get rid of it. I couldn't find much information on these machines from Data General.
It came with SCSI tape and CDrom (Caddy) drives. I swapped in a spare IDE drive I had, and a 40 GB drive set up in 4 2-gb partitions. Cleaned up some sharpie and other blemishes and it's really clean now. Case is very well made. No HD when I got it, so it may well have come with Windows 95 for all I know?