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About this machine

This was the machine all my friends had when I was a kid in Singapore, and I secretly wanted. My overeager imagination at the time thought the front bezel looked like a rocket ship, with its flippy USB and Game Port cover being the gap between its fins. I still think its design holds its own among other beige-tastic boxes from the time.

After years of searching for one in decent condition, I decided to amalgamate a few into one working box. I found a 5070 from the US with a badly broken power supply and motherboard, but had a functional optical drive and was in good cosmetic condition. Six months later I found a 5060 from the UK that booted, but was banged up badly on the outside. Voila!

Today it's a massive pain with its proprietary power supply, IO shield, and ports, but naturally it's one of my favourite machines. This is what I use to play those old Windows games like Worms World Party and Age of Empires II, just as I did with friends back in the day.

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Components

System

Component	Part	State	Memo
Hostname	yoko.lan		From mecha sci-fi Gurren Lagann
Case	Merged from 5060, 5070		Two broken cases made one good one!
PSU	MiTAC MPU-110REFP 110W		Compaq proprietary
Size (cm)	#TODO	-	W x H x D

Motherboard

Component	Part	State	Memo
Motherboard	MiTAC/Trigon Typhoon 10		Compaq OEM EMEA board
CPU	AMD K6-II 333 MHz		Could upgrade, but gonna keep stock
RAM	112 MiB (16 + 32 + 64) SDR UDIMM		Upgrade to 384 MiB
BIOS	686A1 ROM, 1998-08-27		F10 to access
Chipset	VIA Apollo MVP3		Released 1997-09-22

Cards

Component	Part	State	Memo
Graphics	ATi Rage LT Pro, 8 MiB		Onboard. Claims to be AGP.
Modem	Compaq PSB215A Fax/Voice, ISA		Not stock, from another Compaq
NIC	3Com EtherLink XL 3C900-C		Bought online. 03-0108-002 REV-A
Sound	ESS ES1869F AudioDrive		Onboard. I love ESS sound!

Storage

Component	Part	State	Memo
FDD A	Mitsubishi MF355F 3.5 1.44 MiB		Compaq P/N 304235-001
FDD B	-		-
IDE 0	Quantum Bigfoot TX 5.25 Series, 4 GB		My first 5.25-inch hard drive!
IDE 1	-		-
IDE 2	Panasonic CR-588-C(CQ) 32x CD-ROM		Stock. P/N 310185-004
IDE 3	Samsung 12x DVD-Master SD-612		Found and fixed!

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