You all think it's funny don't you? Some of us still use kit like this at work Although I have upgraded it from 5MB to 8MB of memory & the HDD has gone from 80MB to 140MB Full spec as follows: - Intel 486DX50 with h/s only no forced air cooling with fan. 8MB of 32 pin SIMMS 140MB HDD 3.5" FDD 5.1/4 FDD No CDROM 16bit ISA I/O card (COM + LPT ports disabled) 16bit VGA card with 1MB memory (could be less) All running under DOS 6.22/Windows 3.1 Hand on heart, this posting is all true! Russ P.S. I threw out the old IBM XT system only last month!
that cd-rom drive kicks serious ass... anyway you could replace the inards of it with something a little... faster?
CD rom actually takes a different size connector than the standard IDE because it plugs straight into the sound card
still want one and am in to modding an already existing cdrom into that unit, just kidding, sound card???
the original ide interface around @ the tiem could not handle cd-rom drives so they had a custom interface that was built onto seperate cards or built onto a sound card as soundcards were often bundles with cd roms as they were both very very high end bits of kit back then that big cd rom would be cool to mod a dvd drive into it
Heh - I remeber those old mitsumi 1x drives - I used to have one in my 386DX40.... I only got rid of it because I needed something faster play the original 'Rebel Assult'
My SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-2 with DSP was a serious soundcard (back in 1994) Used it to drive a 2.5X Sony CD-ROM...
Hey, don't knock it, I've had three systems slower than that beast (not counting the ZX81). And when you could fit Wordstar4 onto a single floppy, with room for As-Easy-As spreadsheet and maybe dBase2, who needed anything faster?
Eeee, when I was t' lad, It was nought but fields round 'ere. And we 'ad proper computers, none of fancy southern PeeCee malarky - real machines, which you had t' get up at crack of dawn to stoke up for t' days work. And we 'ad to programme them with nuthink but zero's. Young folk today - don't know t' born....
I used to work in Glasgow Uni up until a few months ago and a very similar looking beast was still being used as a print server - the led display is cool - gives you good braggin' rights to your mates
