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Am386DX Tower
This is a modest 386 of ca. 1994. It contains quite
modern Baby-AT mainboard, 8MB of RAM and Trident ISA video board in
16-bit ISA slot. Hard disk is Samsung 250MB. It has also a Creative
SoundBlaster board and some network adapter.
The mainboard has been made probably by STM (whatever it is, probably
not ST Microelectronics) and it has interesting CPU - it's AMD's 386DX
running at 40MHz but unlikely most of them, this one has "Microsoft
Windows Compatible" printed on its package.
Graphics adapter is a typical 512kB Trident TVGA9000 which allows to get
800x600 at 256 colors - totally sufficient for effective work in
Microsoft Windows 3.11 environment and its productivity applications.
| Approx. year | 1994 |
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| Class | AT | |
| CPU | AMD Am386DX | |
| Speed | 40MHz | |
| RAM | 8MB (8x1MB, SIMM30) | |
| ROM | AMI BIOS | |
| Mainboard | STM?? (TH99) |
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| Graphics | Trident TVGA9000B, 512kB, 16-bit ISA |
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| Sound | Creative SoundBlaster 2.0 (CT1350) (TH99) - 16-bit ISA. | |
| Ports I/O | Winbond PTI-227B v. 2 (TH99) (16-bit ISA) |
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| Network | SC&C NE-2 Ethernet (16-bit ISA), driver unknown |
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| System expansion bus | 5x 16-bit ISA slot 1x 8-bit ISA slot |
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| Floppy/removable media drives | 1x 3.5" 1.44MB floppy
disk drive 1x 5.25" 1.2MB floppy disk drive |
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| Hard disks/ATA devices: | Samsung SHD-3122A 250MB IDE disk drive (CHS: 937/15/35) |
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| Other boards:
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| Casing | Standard small AT tower | |
| Non-standard expansions: | None | |
| Operating system(s): | MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11 For Workgroups |
| Contents: | Starting, usage | Drivers |
Starting
The mainboard has quite modern BIOS, typical rather for 486. It allows to configure memory timings or I/O areas. Generally it starts as all PCs and can boot from floppy or hard disk drive.
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Trident TVGA9000 (DOS/Win3.x) |
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SoundBlaster 2.0 (fits on 1 3.5" floppy disk. Needs to be copied to C:\SB) |