"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/18/2016 at 20:11 • Filed to: None
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"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/18/2016 at 20:11 • Filed to: None | 2
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Assembled it today.
Runnin’ MS-DOS on it currently.
It’s a Gigabyte GA-486VM AT board with a 66MHz 486 DX2 66 processor.
16mb RAM! Unfortunately the BIOS has a 504MB limit but I am working on circumventing it. Those long cards are two VLB (VESA Local Bus) cards. One is a video card and another is a multi I/O card that acts as the IDE controller and has the serial + parallel ports.
Closeup of that processor.
Serial mouse is a Kensington Expert trackball. It’s pretty sweet. The graphics card is a Genoa 8500VL 1MB which is a rebranded Cirrus Logic CL-GD5426
Everything works great. It has a Creative Sound Blaster 16 and a 3COM Etherlink III ISA network card. Also came with a 14.4K ISA modem :)
dat connectivity
and TURBO mode working!
Chasaboo
> Nibby
07/18/2016 at 20:13 |
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Nice ribbon cable.
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Nibby
> Chasaboo
07/18/2016 at 20:14 |
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Which one? :P
S65
> Nibby
07/18/2016 at 20:22 |
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Yeah Turbo!
wiffleballtony
> Nibby
07/18/2016 at 20:30 |
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Next up, Oregon Trail.
Nimbus The Legend - Riding on air like a cloud
> Nibby
07/18/2016 at 20:41 |
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the feels and the memories! (not talking about the ram!)
user314
> Nibby
07/18/2016 at 20:49 |
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Ah, 486. Now that takes me back to college...
yitznewton
> Nibby
07/18/2016 at 20:50 |
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Faster than my first IBM-compatible... (386DX 25, 4MB RAM, back in 1991)
I was just holding my dash cam’s Micro SD card in my hand this morning and reflecting how it has three orders of magnitude more storage than that Gateway.
Boxer_4
> Nibby
07/18/2016 at 21:07 |
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Nice build! Though, there’s a problem with your display...
BTW, did you still need that floppy drive?
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Boxer_4
> Nibby
07/18/2016 at 21:10 |
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Let’s try that picture again...
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Nibby
> Boxer_4
07/18/2016 at 21:23 |
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Thanks! I got one from a friend. The display works fine, just maybe a few artifacts due to old GPU
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Nibby
> Boxer_4
07/18/2016 at 21:24 |
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awww ye dem speakers
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Boxer_4
> Nibby
07/18/2016 at 21:25 |
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Yeah, but it's not a CRT...
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Nibby
> Boxer_4
07/18/2016 at 21:29 |
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I have one in the basement but it would take up precious desk space.
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Boxer_4
> Nibby
07/18/2016 at 21:38 |
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All I’m hearing are excuses...
;)
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Nibby
> Boxer_4
07/18/2016 at 21:40 |
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hehe
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Nibby
> user314
07/18/2016 at 21:41 |
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oh man some of those I had forgotten about. Thanks for the reminder
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
07/18/2016 at 21:49 |
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That RAM was $50 per megabyte when it was new.
fintail
> Nibby
07/18/2016 at 22:25 |
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Oh the memories. I remember my first machine, 386/40 with 4MB and a 120MB (I think) HD. I got a few years out of it.
Nick Has an Exocet
> Nibby
07/18/2016 at 22:44 |
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Ahhhh, my first PC was a Packard Bell with a 486DX2. Windows 3.1 for Workgroups. It came with 4MB of RAM (we later added 8MB to total of 12MB). It was pricey - maybe around $3k?
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Nibby
> Nick Has an Exocet
07/18/2016 at 22:57 |
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Amazing how much hardware was at the time. A $1,500 machine was relatively low end 20-25 years ago. Now a $1,500 machine is high end.
bhtooefr
> Nibby
07/18/2016 at 23:30 |
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My first computer was an Apple //c - 1 MHz 65C02, 128 kiB RAM, and a 140 kiB single-sided 5.25" floppy drive.
First PC was an IBM PS/1 2121-G42 - 20 MHz 386SX, 2 MiB RAM, 40 MB HDD, and a 3.5" floppy. I’ve actually got another one of that exact config now:
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Nibby
> bhtooefr
07/18/2016 at 23:45 |
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holy crap yours still works! Good stuff.
any internal pics?
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bhtooefr
> Nibby
07/19/2016 at 00:01 |
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Grand total of ZERO ISA slots unless you get the (optional) expansion enclosure. And that’s a proprietary 2400 bps internal modem in my hand on the left.
Oh, and the power supply is in the CRT.
Its hostname is calais.bhtooefr.org (well, it’s not TCP/IP networked, but there are reasons for it to have a hostname, as I might run a BBS on it) - so called because of the “four-quad” screen. Four-quad, Quad 4, Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais, and that’s how one gets a hostname.
Although, then there’s my IBM 5155 (Portable PC) build, I’ll just link to the VOGONS thread: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?…
I’ve upgraded it to an ST-277R since posting that though.
Sam
> Nibby
07/19/2016 at 01:34 |
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Nibby
> Sam
07/19/2016 at 08:49 |
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