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The Yellow Dragon |
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AMD 486DX4 100 Mhz |
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16 MB RAM |
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?? motherboard |
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244 MB hard drive |
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1.3 GB hard drive |
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Novell NE2000T plus 10 Mbits/sec ethernet |
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Trident 1MB SVGA video card |
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Mini tower w/ 200 watt power |
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Origin:
The beginings of the Yellow Dragon are little known.
It belonged to Electro Cam Corp. ware it likely served as a work station.
Some time in 1999, it was put in a collection of computers destin to be
disguarded. The Yellow Dragon was marked as having a bad power suply
fan. Andrew Que aquiered the system along with a few others when they
were offered as grabs before being thrown out. The powersuply fan
was replaced quickly and the system has been fully operational ever sence.
It is suspected this system had a motherboard upgrade at least once durring
it's life.
Motherboard and CPU |
The Yellow Dragon is nostalgic, containing ruffly the same
hardware configuration of Andrew's early systems. In June of 1995,
I gave my computer my birthday present. An upgrade to a 486DX4-100
motherboard. Compleat with 256k of cache, VESA local bus and 8 MBs
of 70ns 72-pin SIMM memory.
The motherboard in the Yellow Dragon is a step up from that
of my orignal DX4-100. There are PCI slots and no VESA local bus.
Powering the Yellow Dragon is the same model AMD 486DX4 processor I used
in my system in 1995. In it's day, this speed was facinating, as 100
MHz finialy broke the double digit CPU speeds of the time. In fact,
this system contains a double digit CPU speed indicater on the front of
the case.
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