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My new 386 build

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First post, by nemail

Posted on 2015-04-12, 21:44

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As some of you already may have noticed I have finally finished my new 386 build which will be my main 386 machine.

Within a Vobis Highscreen Colani Case which originally housed a 486SX 25 I've put together:

Asus ISA-386C
Intel 80386DX-33
Conner CFS420A 420MB HDD
16MB memory (4x4)
Hercules Dynamite VGA card (TSENG ET4000W32i 1MB, ISA only)
Goldstar Gear I/O card with IDE, Floppy, 2 serial ports, Parallel port, Gameport
Sound Blaster 16 IDE CT2290
52x CD-ROM drive (lol) connected to the Sound Blaster Card

Booted, with all drivers and tools (for cd-rom, sound, mouse, doskey) I have 614KB of conventional memory free 😎

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I like that box 😀

Reply 1 of 5, by foey

Posted on 2015-04-12, 21:53

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Very nice build. I love that case, mainly because my cousin's used to have the same case back in the day housing their 486.

Running any other OS's apart from DOS?

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Reply 2 of 5, by nemail

Posted on 2015-04-12, 22:13

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thanks, yes windows for workgroups 3.11 is also installed.

Reply 3 of 5, by oerk

Posted on 2015-04-13, 07:25

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Cool build! I didn't like the Colani cases when they were new, but I appreciate them now and wouldn't mind to have one.

nemail wrote:
Booted, with all drivers and tools (for cd-rom, sound, mouse, doskey) I have 614KB of conventional memory free 😎

Impressive!

Reply 4 of 5, by Anonymous Coward

Posted on 2015-04-13, 13:21

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Good choice of motherboard and graphics adapter.

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V'Ger XT|Upgraded AT|Ultimate 386|Super VL/EISA 486|SMP VL/EISA Pentium

Reply 5 of 5, by nemail

Posted on 2015-04-14, 22:10

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thanks!
got a Am386DX-40 yesterday + an IIT 4C87DLC-40 coprocessor yesterday for 20€, i wonder if it will get even faster 😀

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