r/retrobattlestations • u/wirerogue • 12h ago
Show-and-Tell Dell XPS B1000R Special Edition
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slot 1 pentium iii 1ghz, rdram, geforce256 ddr 64mb
r/retrobattlestations • u/FAMICOMASTER • 17h ago
Show-and-Tell "XT" doing decidedly non-XT things
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Just recently finished putting this thing back together. This is a mishmash of some unusual upgrades I had laying around, a drop-in 386 replacement motherboard with VLB, a 486DLC/40 that drops into a 386 board, a ULSI 487 coprocessor upgrade, and an 8514 compatible ATi Graphics Ultra.
It's complemented with maxed memory, 32 megs of RAM and 256K L2 cache with the largest tag RAM chip.
Fixed storage is provided by a DTC 7287 RLL controller driving a Micropolis 1325, for a whole 100 megs on disk.
The whole shebang runs Windows 95 pretty acceptably, but honestly this isn't really enough disk space. I/O performance is otherwise totally adequate, as this was quite a fast combination when it was new.
