RWallmow
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Decided I wanted a new "tweener" machine that has ISA slots...
I knew I had a super 7 board with ISA lying out in the garage in parts box, found it was a Gigabyte GA-5SMM with a Cyrix 266 in it. Took a scrapped Compaq DeskPro EXD desktop style mini-ATX case (originally a Celeron 800 by its sticker), 20gb HD, 128mb RAM, CD-ROM, 3.5 & 5.25" floppies, Intel Pro/100 NIC and tossed it all together to make a new rig.
Got Win95b loaded up on it, don't have USB working yet, but the rest is running like a champ. I haven't investigated the USB issues, but I believe the driver was just not part of any of the packages on gigabytes site, I might need to dig around SIS's site for a while to see if they have 95b drivers for the USB chipset. USB is not real critical to me in this build though, since any file transfer will likely be from the network, but it would be nice to say its working ;-)
I will do an entry on my blog site too once I have some pics of this thing.
It's kind of ironic I stuck this in a Compaq case, because I guess this particular GA-5SMM was out of a Compaq with its nice big red "Compaq" BIOS splash
I should note I was inspired to do this because of bettablue's posting, so props to him
I knew I had a super 7 board with ISA lying out in the garage in parts box, found it was a Gigabyte GA-5SMM with a Cyrix 266 in it. Took a scrapped Compaq DeskPro EXD desktop style mini-ATX case (originally a Celeron 800 by its sticker), 20gb HD, 128mb RAM, CD-ROM, 3.5 & 5.25" floppies, Intel Pro/100 NIC and tossed it all together to make a new rig.
Got Win95b loaded up on it, don't have USB working yet, but the rest is running like a champ. I haven't investigated the USB issues, but I believe the driver was just not part of any of the packages on gigabytes site, I might need to dig around SIS's site for a while to see if they have 95b drivers for the USB chipset. USB is not real critical to me in this build though, since any file transfer will likely be from the network, but it would be nice to say its working ;-)
I will do an entry on my blog site too once I have some pics of this thing.
It's kind of ironic I stuck this in a Compaq case, because I guess this particular GA-5SMM was out of a Compaq with its nice big red "Compaq" BIOS splash
I should note I was inspired to do this because of bettablue's posting, so props to him
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