Subj : Re: My new* 486 (*=old)
To   : xbit
From : esc
Date : Fri Feb 10 2023 12:24:00

 xb> I have the following retro PC currently being shipped:
 xb> x-bit.org/retro486/ Fingers crossed that it makes its way to me safely.

Nice! Looks good!

I have a 486 that I've been "building" now for like a year. I just never finished it up lol. I can't even remember what's all in it but I did recently get a GUS PnP that I'll be throwing in there, which has me all sorts of excited. I love building old hardware.

 xb> My first PC ever was a 486sx 25 that i later upgraded with a Cyrix
 xb> 486-100. I don't want to say what i did with it years later as it makes
 xb> me sad/mad :/

My dad had a Gateway 2000 486dx66 if I remember correctly. That machine was great, it was reliable and fast and I loved the aesthetic. Vintage PCs are so cool.

I had a 386sx33 or something along those lines back then. It was very tempermental and there was something wrong with the HD controller as every HD I threw on there became corrupt after a period of time. But this is the machine that got me deep into the BBSing hobby, so it's important in my personal history haha

 xb> Looking forward to some 486 era gaming and i'll also install a spitfire
 xb> bbs just to get the init strings working so it says "waiting for call". 

Sweet deal! Yeah, I also install old BBS software on hardware when I can. There's something magical about just seeing the old WFC the way it was intended to be seen. I've done the same with Amiga BBS software on real hardware. It's neat.

 xb> One of the first upgrads I'm going to do is to replace the badge on the
 xb> case from this place geekenspiel.com/collections. 

Oh cool, I wasn't aware of this seller.

 xb> Anyone else have a early era PC? Please share the specs and what your
 xb> doing with it if so. 

I'll have to follow up once it's built. I have a WinXP machine, a Win98 machine, and the aforementioned 486 which I still need to build. The Win98 machine is a ton of fun, I have it set up for multiple "hardware profiles" which align with me switching on or off the PCI GPU in BIOS. This allows me to have both a voodoo card and an nvidia card, so it's versatile as hell. I also have a midi tower that this plugs into so I can run games with a couple different midi options. It's spectacular.

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