Dear Eugene Lug members,
I gave away an old 486 about 2 years ago and recently had it returned to
me. It is from about 8 years ago w. the following:
486/33 pre-Local bus, pre-PCI, fortunately not SX
32MB RAM consisting of 8 SIMMs of 4MB 30-pin 70ns
2 IDE Hard drives:
master: 1.2 GB
slave: 340MB
2 serial ports upgraded to 66550 UART
1 parallel port
Sound Blaster 16 w. SCSI-2: ( had an external SCSI CD-ROM, but currently
none)
Keyboard is AT (pre-PS/2)
Mouse uses a COM port since no PS/2
ISA video card: Diamond SpeedStar Apline series w. 1MB video RAM
DTC EIDE BIOS ISA card to allow LBA access to hard disks larger than 525
MB
3.5" and 5-1/4" floppy drives
I will bring this to the lab session tomorrow. If anyone is willing to
bring any surplus stuff that would improve upon the above configuration,
I would appreciate it.
Has anyone had successful Linux install w. a simliar configuration or
know of any components that are supported by Linux?
Thanks in advance for all the help I will get tomorrow.
Rodney
