No, the 486 is mine. It's been a project computer for quite some time. It started life as a 386DX-25, but was upgraded to a 33 before I got it..... I think it actually may have had the whole MB replaced. I dropped in a coprocessor and then a TI 486 upgrade chip, and lots of memory. The old 386 board had 16 30-pin simm slots!! I think I had 48megs of ram in it...... more than a lot of 486s. Finally, I located a 486 board that would fit this case. I had already retired the computer, when I found the 486 MB, so I have been working on it very very slowly. I keep on running into troubles with it crashing. Every time I think I have it figured out, that wasn't it.... still freezes up. In testing, I using Win95, but I plan to switch to Linux..... actually maybe Freesco, and use it like a network. I don't have a network, but would like to start a small one. Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA Ben Franchuk wrote:

On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Ben Franchuk wrote: A 486 with 32-64mb of ram will run X fine, but it's still a little slow for cpu intensive processes (netscape, mozilla, gimp...). These machines also make excellent X terminals, provided they have a fairly decent video card. My personal favorites tend to be old Diamond Viper and Stealth VLB cards with 2mb of video ram. -Toth

On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Chad Fernandez wrote: I own a few of these myself, and they do indeed work very well. The additional 1mb memory allows for running at a higher resolution and or color depth. -Toth