A happy old PC... — #2

Post #2 by Quadraman

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	68k
Post Date	Fri, 4 Apr 2008 - 22:54
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/a-happy-old-pc.12672/

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I picked an old PC, clearly already upgraded several times:The case belongs to a generic 386, (with the ever-cool TURBO! button)

ASUS mobo, P1 133, 64Mb ram, no optical drive, 2 hard disks (1G & 3.5G)

A great man once said "There's no kill like overkill.""

So I added a 200MHz P1 processor, a 40GB hard disk, a 60GB hard disk, a DVD-RW drive, a Zip drive, a USB II card, and an ATI 128mb PCI video card. Also, several fans (the single fan in the PS wasn't cutting it).

It seems like a hamster driving a bulldozer, but it works well enough!

Are you sure the case was 386? I remember 8088/8086 and some 286 machines having the turbo switch to go from 4.77 to 8 mhz. I don't recall the 386 having switch selectable speeds.