[Wylug-help] ADSL & CCL

[Jim Jackson]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, gARetH baBB wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Jim Jackson wrote:
>
> > Mmmm... tries to remember. My main machine till about 4 years ago was a
> > 486DX4/100 and I think it had to have a fan, not a heatsink. Not sure
>
> Where on earth would you put the fan without a heatsink ?!

Told you I was trying to remember :-) I'm sure I had to run a fan on my
dx4/100, because I remember the beast was noisy (the whole box was noisy),
and if I could have got away with it I'm sure I would have done. But hell
4 years ago is just too much for someone with incipient oldtimers
:-)


> The Intel and AMD 486/DX4-100s required heatsinks, but not fans
>
> The AMD 486/DX4-120 required a fan too.
>
> We still have a Intel DX4-100 in use, it's noodles.gink.org and until
> recently did DHCP, UPS, DNS and gw stuff - I think it's on the verge of
> being removed.
>
> hick@noodles:~$ uptime
>  12:54pm  up 198 days,  7:01,  1 user,  load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00
>
> Hmmm, I wonder why it was rebooted 198 days ago.
>
> It's actually an interesting machine, because as well as being EISA, PCI
> and having onboard SCSI, it also takes a dual processor Pentium card or
> the 486 card.
>
> stum.gink.org some time ago used to be a AMD DX4-120, I still have the
> processor and motherboard.
>
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