I'd been looking for bits to make a P133 rig for a while. Got a nice little tower that needs a retrobrite, a PSU that needs a re-cap, a little memory, etc. But the two socket7 boards I have are dead. One won't detect ram, the other has no POST at all. I was going to pay through the nose for a decent working socket7 board, but then I found this in the skip bin at work:
Don't see many Digital machines on here. This one is pretty exceptional. It's lived in a train workshop it's whole life. It was the machine for controlling the tracks and stuff for shifting engines in and out. It was full of train brake dust and crud. Needed to fill it with soap and get the garden hose into it to clean it off, that dust was so sticky. On the bright side it did have some really cool (win95) train and track control and monitoring software on it.
The only thing missing was the CPU, which someone decided they wanted, and left everything else. Cute wee CAS module, 64mb RAM, 1GB hard drive (which tests perfect too). Dropped my 133 CPU in there and it booted right up.
Cleaned up pretty well.
Decided to give it a wee ESS 1868 for sound:
New battery:
Post-wash:
If anyone can tell my why the hell Cannon Fodder keeps on crashing on any machine I install it on, I'd be so happy! For some reason you can't quit the version I have either. You have to turn the computer off.
CF card upgrade, since I want to keep the original HDD with it's original factory software.