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💾 Vintage Obsession 💾

I've been in love with this one for months, years, decades. Perhaps one day, when the moons align, I'll grab four Pentium Pro "Black Edition" CPUs and as much RAM as its mezzanine cards can handle, and ... well, you know how the rest of the vintage hardware story goes. Beautiful. The only concern is, "wtf is it doing on the EMI static-charged carpet for the photos?"

#vintagecomputing #pentiumpro #pentium #eisa #hardware #oldtech #servers #ebay

There were no picture of the AOpen AX65 #PentiumPro board on #TheRetroWeb, so I did my best with my #fp5 and it turned out OK.

I then proceeded to remove the BIOS chip and dump its content with the #minipro.

Now, when dealing with motherboards where the BIOS has a sticker with its version on it, I never know if I should update it in place and make the sticker lie, or replace the EEPROM with a freshly flashed one instead and store the original.

https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/aopen-ax65

#retrocomputing

@outofcreativity Thanks for the nice comment.

I know 16 bit code is not where the #PentiumPro shines, but it should still be at least as fast as a #Pentium running at the same clock speed, which is fine with me.

I will most likely reinstall it with a dual-boot #os2warp and #windows95