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NIGHT STALKER
Seller said the package went in the mail Friday and all is well. He didn't even know what I was talking about, but I don't think the "Customer Recall?" subject line showed up at his end.
Yeah, I shudder to think what they went for originally.awesome awesome awesome! MY GOD those had to of been so expensive!!!!!!! Super cool!
I had to look this one up... Wikipedia has a short blurb on the 487SX. It was aparently a math coprocessor (actually a full CPU replacement) for systems with the i486SX CPU (which had no floating point hardware). Specifically, it was targeted for systems which had soldered 486SX chips and a compatible socket.Processor: 486DX or 487SX (whatever the heck that means?)
Hey! My dad had one of those for work. I played Hack & Rogue on it.IBM 5155:
I assume it's asking for a password once it's fully booted? You should be able to break into the BIOS and get it to boot from a floppy instead if you want to get DOS or whatnot on it. I am also curious about the "ESDI drive" statement; do you actually see an ESDI controller/drive in it, or is that just what the BIOS says? Some older BIOS-es identified IDE drives in "translating" mode (IE, most of them) as ESDI. If it *is* IDE I'd suggest pulling the disk that has the magical proprietary network sniffer OS on it out and subbing another one for DOS/Windows/whatever. A "deep hacking" solution for getting into the sniffer software *could* be sticking the disk in a Linux machine and seeing if you can mount it; in theory you might be able to edit /etc/passwd to break in, for instance, but I'd image the whole disk to a backup before changing anything on it.Update time:
I was checking this baby out today to see if I could load Win98 on it for use with a cheap Chinese ROM burner which may show up on my doorstep. No go, or no easy go of it. It ain't DOS or Windows!
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I wonder if it comes with a password, mine needs one. :
Well, that would be a modern era system, though big and without the charm of the lunchbox. It's pretty much the alternate universe counterpart to your beige G3. Digression: my favorite of that era was the Dimension L-series; small, almost cute, with a look like a correctly proportioned 6400.and I'll go pretty far out of my way to keep that friggin' DIMENSION XPS D333 off my electronics bench. Blech!
I'd bet three shiny new nickels it's IDE. ESDI was pretty much dead meat by the 486 era. (And yes, from a software standpoint IDE looks basically like a ESDI drive, both of which emulate (with extensions) the WD1003 used in the original IBM AT.)It's possible the drive is still IDE since, IIRC, a lot of older disk drivers just treated MFM/ESDI/IDE all the same (emulation of some early WD controller).