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First post, by Scooterist007

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Hi there, I am new here, I am a mid 50’s guy from the uk, I have had plenty of tech through the years but never seemed to keep anything, I wish I had, but hey.
Well tonight while working, a work colleague turned up and said, I have something in the car that you might like, so went to get it and it was an old pc! Well I couldn’t wait to take the case of and it’s totally complete, it’s an unusual case as it has speakers built in and an amplifier. I have tried googling the name badge but it doesn’t come up with anything, the name is ultra Microsystems, but when I google, all that comes up is sun Microsystems. The board is a pc chips m912 v1.4 socket 3 which is a vlb board with a st 486 dx2/66, sound blaster 16, cirrus logic video card and a cd drive and 3.5” floppy drive.
I think it works, it beeps but looking up it’s the keyboard controller, however I don’t have a keyboard for it, I also don’t have a monitor for it either!

But I think I will enjoy this free system and make a dos or win 95 gaming rig.

Reply 1 of 9, by gerry

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a nice result that, will indeed make a great DOS / 95 system - hope you get keyboard and monitor soon. needs a pic i think!

Reply 3 of 9, by Shponglefan

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Nice score! 486 DX2-66 will make for a decent early 90s gaming rig.

IMHO, it's probably going to be too underpowered for Windows 95. That OS is better suited to Pentium era systems circa 1996/1997. Whereas a DX2-66 is more suited for DOS and Windows 3.11 for software from 1993/1994.

But like all things, YMMV.

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486 DX4-100 with 6 sound cards
486 DX-33 with 5 sound cards

Reply 4 of 9, by Scooterist007

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gerry wrote on 2024-06-07, 10:42:

a nice result that, will indeed make a great DOS / 95 system - hope you get keyboard and monitor soon. needs a pic i think!

I thought I did upload a pic! Will try again.

Reply 6 of 9, by Scooterist007

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Shponglefan wrote on 2024-06-07, 15:27:

Nice score! 486 DX2-66 will make for a decent early 90s gaming rig.

IMHO, it's probably going to be too underpowered for Windows 95. That OS is better suited to Pentium era systems circa 1996/1997. Whereas a DX2-66 is more suited for DOS and Windows 3.11 for software from 1993/1994.

But like all things, YMMV.

I can’t wait to get a monitor and keyboard to see what os is installed on the hard drive.

Reply 7 of 9, by Scooterist007

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Hopefully this works

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Reply 9 of 9, by GemCookie

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As long as there's enough RAM, Windows 95 should run just as well as 3.1, if not a bit faster. 95 also has 32-bit disk access that actually works.

Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo Pro | P4 530J | GF 6600 | 2GiB | 120G HDD | 2k/Vista/10
MSI MS-5169 | K6-2/350 | TNT2 M64 | 384MiB | 120G HDD | DR-/MS-DOS/NT/2k/XP/Ubuntu
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