DECpc 466D2LP

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General Technical Information

HOSTNAME	DECPC
SYSTEM CPU	Intel i486DX2 @33MHz
CACHE (2nd, 1st)	256 KB, 8 KB
RAM	64 MB (Max. 64 MB)
IDE BUS	1 x IDE (Max. 8.33 MB/s)
OPTION BUS	3 x 16-bit ISA Slots
GRAPHICS	Onboard S3 chip, 8-plane 1024x768 @70Hz
HARD DISK DRIVE	170 MB Quantum 5400 RPM IDE 202 MB Western Digital IDE
CD-ROM DRIVE	N/A
FLOPPY DRIVE	1.44MB 3.5" Floppy drive
NETWORK	10 Mbps combo ISA ethernet network adapter, 3com Etherlink III 3c509B
AUDIO	N/A
OS	MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.1 IBM OS/2 Warp 3.0 Windows NT 4.0 SCO XENIX System V R2.3.4 (on separate 40 MB IDE disk)
YEAR	1992
SPEED	about 32 VAX MIPS
COMMENTS	MS-DOS + Win 3.1 run quite fast on this machine. Even Win NT 4.0 runs at accepatable speed, but not very fast.
ESTIAMATED PRICE '92 (basic 486DX2 configuration, 8 MB RAM, about 120 MB disk)	$1,950

History and other comment

I got this machine for free. I keep it just because it looks very much like a Personal DECstation or perhaps a DEC3000/300-series computer. Today, a 486 peecee with only 12 MB RAM is pretty useless, unless you need a small low-noise, low-cost, low-power, low-performance NetBSD server/firewall (or something) :-).

Update, august 2007: I found out that this peecee accepts Parity SIMMs so RAM was upgraded to a full 64 MB using DEC SIMMs removed from my DEC 2000/300. With this new amount of RAM, this computer can run both W9x and NT 4.0. I 've now tried several older OS's on it, just for fun (listed above).

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Last updated:

25-8-2007