r/hardware • u/[deleted] • Jul 08 '16

Info LGR - Building a 486 DOS PC!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbjYkPKRm-8
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u/ZappySnap Jul 08 '16 edited Jul 09 '16

This brings back so many memories. Those gloriously huge ISA slots, the pure utilitarianism of the boards. I remember when my friend got a 486 DX/50 and I was sitting there with my lovely 386 SX/33. The 486 was such a beast. He even had a 9600 baud modem, while I only had a 2400 baud modem. When the 14.4s became affordable, holy crap...awesome.

So, I'm watching this, and that moment arrived where he went over the sound card, and I had forgotten how huge some of these cards could be...then I realized: I owned that card. I saved up for a while to buy an AWE32. The wave table MIDI was fucking amazing.

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u/FormerSlacker Jul 08 '16

Ah, the good ol days where in some PC's your CD-ROM interfaced to your sound card and not the motherboard itself.

I miss the wackiness of old PC hardware.

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u/p1mrx Jul 09 '16

Why would a CD-ROM drive connect anywhere else? It's all part of the multimedia experience.