I snagged a decent VidCard for the Sendakian WildThing™ on the 'Bay recently.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/230814274578



Would a second 72 pin SIMM Memory Expansion Card be Beneficial?

Pics of the Proc have been on the to do list . . .

. . . for a while now! :lol:

What are you going to do with the guts of the Model 80 then (motherboard, PS, cards, drives, proprietary floppy)?
I have 2 working and restored model 80's, both with 486 upgrades (one is a PS/2 card with a 486 and the other is a CPU board that snaps into the 386 socket). Real nice machines, and fully stuffed with MCA cards plsu both have IBM WORM drives (130MB 5.25" hard cased opticals).

There are 2 funky RAM cards in a model 80 under the power supply. They have something like a PDS slot to connect to the motherboard and the RAM is in rows and columns of square metals cans soldered to the board (1,2,4MB max per card). Any other RAM would be on MCA cards and use either 30 pin SIMMs (3rd party boards Orchid made one) or 72 pin SIMMs (IBM made boards). If the CMOS battery (large 6V camera type battery) is low or dead then the machine will have booting issues but the hardware might still be 100% ok. If so you will need a MCA setup floppy to boot from and driver files for all cards installed.

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I may be setting this hulking beast (Wild Things don't look very fast) as a working system for giggles.

For the shiznits part of the equation, I'm thinking about setting up my ATOM NetTop board behind the 5.25" Cover plate with an ATX PSU. The only mod to the internals will be drilling out the spot welds attaching the front drive bracket to the HDD Chassis and bolting the NetTop chassis up to the tapped holes. I'm thinking in terms of a swing-out Smoked Plexi cover plate replacement that'll match the panels on the Commodore 64 WorkStation I made back in the day, with a peripherals & Card Reader breakout box in it, maybe a vertically mounted portable USB type DVD behind the short section of a reversed 5.25" bezel?

I'm looking for excuses to put the CD-SC back together un-molested, possibly repaired, and build the largest, most redonckulous, hackintosh on the planet . . .

. . . with a Cyrix powered co-processor board . . . [}] ]'>