EddieDX4
Veteran Member
Over the weekend, I picked up an AST Premmia MTE 4/33 system. The case is in fairly good shape (a few scuffs here and there on the metal part, plastics seem flawless). It has some sort of SCSI controller, a NIC, and 24MB of RAM installed. Beyond that I haven't checked much more (it has no drive, and I haven't opened it up, yet).
This thing is a mini-tower case (very small), dark gray in color. Very nice looking. Also, surprisingly heavy. I'm thinking these were AST's "workstation" class machines at the time. The following motherboard information suggests they could take up to 128MB of RAM! The cache slot, apparently, could also accommodate a Pentium upgrade of some sort (kind'a weird, as it appears to be 16-bit ISA based).
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/A/AST-RESEARCH-INC-486-PREMMIA-MTE-4-33-PREMMIA-MTE.html
I'll take pictures of it sometime tonight. I'm digging the looks of it.
EDIT: This isn't a picture of mine, but one I found through Google... It is a P/60 model, so indeed there was a Pentium option!
It looks just like it, except the model says 4/33 on it.
This thing is a mini-tower case (very small), dark gray in color. Very nice looking. Also, surprisingly heavy. I'm thinking these were AST's "workstation" class machines at the time. The following motherboard information suggests they could take up to 128MB of RAM! The cache slot, apparently, could also accommodate a Pentium upgrade of some sort (kind'a weird, as it appears to be 16-bit ISA based).
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/A/AST-RESEARCH-INC-486-PREMMIA-MTE-4-33-PREMMIA-MTE.html
I'll take pictures of it sometime tonight. I'm digging the looks of it.
EDIT: This isn't a picture of mine, but one I found through Google... It is a P/60 model, so indeed there was a Pentium option!
It looks just like it, except the model says 4/33 on it.