First I had to change the case from this:
To this case:
After I took the computer apart, it was time to take a look at the parts. To see how dirty they were, and if I needed to change some of the parts. Well. They looked ok and was in no need of getting cleaned.
Now. What parts did this dx33 machine have? I had the following parts:
- UMC 486 ISA-Only motherboard, with some UMC 15 ns cache chips.
- Intel 80486-dx-33 Processor.
- Socket3 CPU Cooler.
- One stick of 16mb 72pin 60ns Ram.
- Tseng ET-4000ax ISA.
- Winbond ControllerCard ISA.
- MediaVision Jazz16 Sound Card ISA.
- 512mb CF Card and Noname China-Adaptor.
- Sony 3.5 inch 1.44mb Floppy Drive.
- 8xSpeed CD-Rom Drive.
Then came the rebuild. There is not much to say about this, as it was strainght forward for me to do. I have done this over and over, since the mid-90's. It took me some 30 minutes to put this all together, so instead of just rambling away this time, I will flood the rest of this blog post with pictures.
Enjoy.... 😀
(Can anyone spot the odd' joke, that I made with the Case badge?)
She is a good lookin old "gal" :-)
ReplyDeleteReally tales me back to the good old days of computing, before the magic was lost.
Back then I often spiced up my computers with 7 digit LED displays to show its speed in MHz and extra lights (diodes)... I Even had a pc with a side window long before it become a thing.
My 5x86-133 machine has a 3-digit led display. Led display's are just a thing of the past, and yet it belongs on those old 386 and 486 machines. If one can find such case these days. My first computer had such a display as well. And later on, I got an 486dx2-66 installed in that case.
DeleteWhoops... 7 segment not digit
ReplyDeleteIt had 3 digits