MrKsoft on Nostr: This 286 motherboard, left for dead in the VCFMW free pile, lives to see another day! ...
This 286 motherboard, left for dead in the VCFMW free pile, lives to see another day! The battery explosion cut a deep hole in the board, but after reconnecting voltages on ISA and the A5 line on the SIPP slots (and converting them to SIMM), it's up and running. A true survivor!
Auva Computer BABY 286 BAM/12-G1 (Headland GC101/102)
286-12
2MB RAM
Tseng ET4000AX
WD1003-WA2 MFM/Floppy controller
Promise EIDEMAX w/ XTIDE ROM
Generic serial/parallel board
Sound Blaster 2.0 w/ CMS
#retrocomputing
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