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this 486 motherboard has ISA, VLB, and PCI slots!
(also a Dallas RTC module which probably has a dead battery)
4 Mar 2023 at 23:40 | Open on mastodon.social
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Robert Petersen 🇺🇸
A:\kiteless.exe /BLM

@tubetime Awesome find! Would love one of these. Loaded with Cache and everything. ❤️

4 Mar 2023 at 23:44 | Open on furries.club
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Kit Bashir
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the old battery is now disconnected.
5 Mar 2023 at 0:38 | Open on mastodon.social
Byte⏩Shift
Johan | PD1JMB

@tubetime You are trying to connect a new battery to it? Nice 🙂

5 Mar 2023 at 1:12 | Open on mas.to
William D. Jones

@tubetime Looks like somebody was poking around already?

5 Mar 2023 at 1:21 | Open on mastodon.social
DrScriptt

@tubetime are you worried about it leaking?

5 Mar 2023 at 5:49 | Open on oldbytes.space
Tube🍂Time

@drscriptt not really, it should be pretty well sealed

5 Mar 2023 at 17:51 | Open on mastodon.social
DrScriptt

@tubetime good to know.

Thank you.

I’m now less worried about similar systems that I have.

5 Mar 2023 at 19:32 | Open on oldbytes.space
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furan
Harvey Sandstrom
Farce Majeure

@tubetime I'm still kinda weirded out that this is a 486. I keep thinking this is a SPARCstation 10 and typing out forth commands to redo the checksum in my mind.

Because seriously a 486 shipped with an SGS/Thomson TimeKeeper? This is the most expensive 486 motherboard.

7 Mar 2023 at 5:51 | Open on better.boston
Dantali0n :arch: :i3:

@tubetime seems like the kind of thing you would find build instructions on hackaday for. Nice work

7 Mar 2023 at 6:25 | Open on fosstodon.org
byterot

@tubetime My god it's the millennium falcon!

7 Mar 2023 at 6:26 | Open on dosgame.club
DrScriptt

@tubetime what is that battery?
12mm × ?mm

7 Mar 2023 at 7:06 | Open on oldbytes.space
Darryl Ramm
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Ove Gram Nipen

@tubetime that unpopulated space on the motherboard with a circle that says «batt», what’s that for?

7 Mar 2023 at 22:07 | Open on snabelen.no
Tube🍂Time

@oven alternative way to assemble the board using an RTC chip that has no built in battery. the chip footprint is under the socket where you can't see it. the external battery socket goes on the footprint you noticed.

7 Mar 2023 at 23:15 | Open on mastodon.social
Jeff Haluska

@tubetime The first computer my family owned was a 486 DX2 66 MHz. Man we got a lot of use out of that.

5 Mar 2023 at 0:51 | Open on mastodon.social
Ancients

@tubetime
I think dead batteries are normally the ones that don't shock. /s

5 Mar 2023 at 1:14 | Open on defcon.social
lopta
Ove Gram Nipen

@tubetime I believe I had this board back in 1996. We used to refer to boards like these as VIP-motherboards, short for Vesa/ISA/PCI.

5 Mar 2023 at 9:32 | Open on snabelen.no
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