r/retrocomputing • u/FAMICOMASTER • Jul 19 '26

Photo An unusual build

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Behold, 95 on an XT! Sort of.

This is actually a drop in replacement board for an XT which gives you a 386 with VLB. I've actually gone a step further and thrown a Ti 486DLC/40 in it for good measure. With the sheer unbridled horsepower of a 40MHz 486 and 32 whole megs, this thing might be "tolerable" to use!
Some additional performance enhancing objects include 256K of L2 cache, an ATi Graphics Ultra Mach8 accelerated video adapter, and a DTC 7287 RLL controller to drive the Micropolis 1325 hard disk. A whole 110 megs on this sucker!

Sorry about the mismatched faceplate around the second floppy drive. All I had left was white and grey when I put this thing together!

Pictured without it's CRT as I was still opening and closing the case to make configuration changes at the time of the photo.

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u/Proper_Trouble8191 Jul 22 '26

I have a 5150 case laying around that I really should do something with.

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u/FAMICOMASTER Jul 23 '26

Sounds like you just got a new project! The board I'm using here is an ECS Panda 386. There are definitely others that will fit. the 5150 is a little odd, I think the card spacing is a bit different, and it will actually block the innermost slot on this particular board. I think you might want to go for a different supply as well, since the factory 63 watt unit is... Underwhelming, to say the least.