Hey gang. Im getting rid of my mid-90s childhood PC. It boots up. Seems to function perfectly. I’d hate to send to recycling something that has good old components and works. Would anyone want it?
-Z
Hi ZgZg,
Thank you for your offer, does it have a working Parallel Port? This is to directly turn ON & OFF relays.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you,
RK
Hey. I wish I could tell you but I have no idea how to test a parallel port. I’d guess it does because the floppy disk drives both work. The last time I used a computer like this was probably 1996. Happy to send you photos if you like.
@Rebel_without_Clause I have an older HP desktop with a parallel port I am about to take to recycle.
gen 3 i7 4GB RAM, no hard drive. You are welcome to pick it up in New Westminster.
Message me if interested
Please send me the photo of the peripheral ports, thank you!
Looks like an 80586-class, not 80686-class, CPU so it will likely hang if anything, including some DOS applications, tries to use a CMOV (Conditional Move) instruction. I had that problem (crash/hang due to invalid opcode exception) on the Asus P5A-B (-B for Baby AT) short tower computer with 350-MHz AMD K6-2 CPU that my family had and that I am still hoarding but literally never use any more. Apparently the -S suffix to Pentium indicates that the CPU uses Socket 7 instead of Socket 5.
The Thermal Design Power rating of these Socket 5 and Socket 7 CPUs is really low even compared to the Pentium II CPUs such as the 400-MHz Pentium II I have in an Asus P2B ATX tower computer but the computer of the OP looks like it is AT instead of ATX so I guess one cannot use a picoPSU to eliminate the fan in the power supply. I wonder if the lack of the -5VDC output with the picoPSU matters for this 1995 computer.
The motherboard firmware from 1995 may also have a maximum of around 500 MB or 8 GB for the PATA host controller. Maybe not, though, because the IBM ThinkPad 755CD from 1995 that I have seems to work fine with a 32-GB drive, specifically a CompactFlash PATA SSD.