13 May
2015
13 May
'15
11:31 a.m.
It's a funny little machine. It's as if it was not meant to have an
internal disk drive. Perhaps if you sacrificed the floppy drive you
could squeeze one in there. A small knob on the back to choose screen
resolution. Only one ISA occupied by a monstrous graphics board parallel
with the motherboard.
I'm most curious of a little "daughterboard" which seems to be some kind
of upgrade, perhaps cache? Here is an auction of a motherboard/graphics
card combo:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/191577396617
Notice the blank PCB near the ISA slot, on my machine it's occupied by a
populated board. What could it be?
I'm a little disappointed there is no room to fit a sound card. Would
have made a great gaming machine.
Thanks,
Pontus.
On 05/13/2015 04:20 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
I had a DECpc 433 LPv (don't believe I remember
this after almost 20 years
now, LOL) long ago ... decent enough machine for the time; 486DX/33, I
think it had maybe 4-8 megs of RAM in it, few hundred megs of IDE disk. No
onboard SCSI in mine, though I've seen other DECpc models that are more
reminiscent of the Personal DECstation or the VS 4000/VLC, etc. that may
have, of which you might be speaking. I can tell you from memory it ran
Linux great for the time, no hardware support issues whatsoever. :O
Best,
Sean
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Pontus <pontus at update.uu.se> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I received a DECpc 433 Workstation today with SCSI expansion box. It's a
> small system which reminds me of the VAX VLC, but not quite.
>
> I've not been able to find any manuals online, does anyone have anything?
>
> Regards,
> Pontus.
>