OMFG Ike - you hit my childhood - I had the PB Multimedia Executive (USA Legend) which was the 1st PC I bought in the 90s - in all its 486 DX75 glory - very very similar to your model here, except mine was Win95. Thanks for the memories, my friend - peace, dude
Great meeting you as well! I think that’s the route I’m heading unless I can’t find the cache chips, it takes 3 separate chips to get it to 512k and one of the 3 might be hard to find. If I can’t find it I’ll go drop in the Pentium overdrive.
This was my first computer also! Though I had the 75Mhz Pentium processor and 4MB of memory that was later upgraded to 8MB. Unfortunately I didn't think of the future and sometime in my teenage years It was carried up a fire tower and tossed off :(
Yeah, definitely regret some of the stuff I’ve damaged in the past. Funny to think that something that was worth less than a cup of coffee would have such value today.
If it came with a barrel battery installed, make sure you replace it with a rechargeable 2032 battery. the circuit charges the battery so you will need one that can be avoid problems. I also heard you could put a diode in on one side of it to prevent this, but I don't know the specifics of how to size that.
It was hard to find any documentation regarding that so when I get it all back together I’ll test for voltage on that line. Gonna go with a CR1525 since the footprint is smaller than a common 2032
Already have the RAM, that’s going in for sure, just not sure if I should max out the 486 or go balls out and do the overdrive. I already have a Pentium 12MHz machine.
Keep it a 486, What is the Socket? I'm Partial to the AMD DX4-100. I'd love to find my first PC, It was a Packard Bell 80286 of some sort, Desktop like this, 3.5 & 5.25" & 10 Meg HDD!!! We had a Bootlegg setup of MsDos 5 & Win 3.0a MME
