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Offline Ilwrath

Re: 90-200mhz pentium doorstop pc NEEDED
« on: April 01, 2013, 06:39:31 PM »
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I'd like to get a 90mhz pentium-200mhz Pentium with 128megs of ram for
testing purposes to really show it off alot more.

Ya might have a tough time getting a system of that spec.  Most of the 486 dx/pentium systems in that era still used SIMMS, and maxed out at 4x16mb SIMMS (64MB).

I have an old Pentium 1 / ?? mhz (probably a 75, but maybe 90) sitting around in the basement collecting dust.  It is maxed with 4x SIMMS, but I don't remember if they were 8 or 16 MB (32 or 64MB of RAM).  I know it isn't 128.  Has some old PCI video (maybe an ATI RAGE?), 2x NICs, (probably 3COM ISA 3c509 boards), no sound, and some ancient ATAPI CDROM.  Might have a USB port, but I don't think so.  

Nothing was wrong with the computer, itself, when it was put away.  In fact, it was routinely getting uptime measured in months.  Right up until it's hard drive crashed over a decade ago, that is.  I built a new box, and removed the crashed drive, slaved it to the new system, and recovered all the data I could, then threw all the old stuff into storage, where I haven't touched it, since.  I'm sure it's not worth the bother of shipping from Detroit to Philly, but if you know someone in the area who'd pick it up for ya, it's yours for the incredibly low price of free.