My next retro rescue / refurb project, kindly donated to me by (Danjones_uk on X.com) Thank you so much mate! 👍
Gateway 2000 - P5-120 (Pentium 120Mhz) from 1996.
An absolute beast, nearly 2ft tall!
First it needs an initial quick cleanup, it's grubby!
23 Inches Tall!
"Ooh, Matron!" 😲
Dirrty
*said in Christina Aguilera's voice*
Looking a bit fresher now, I will be taking all the plastic off the case and deep cleaning it, but for now, better!
VGA Card (PCI)
Dedicated Parallel Port Card (ISA)
Modem (ISA)
Unfortunately no soundcard, for now.
Lots O' Rust!
Ok, let's take a peak at the goodies inside:
Feline approval granted! 😺
Motherboard:
Gateway 634784-608 Socket 5
4x PCI
3x ISA
Matrox MGA Millennium 2MB PCI
+
2MB Memory Upgrade Board
=
4MB Amazing! 😍
ISA Parallel Port Card
Appears to be 8-bit, notice none of the 16-bit pins go anywhere (might be wrong).
8-bit Hardware Modem, notice that cheeky EPROM, XT-IDE potential 🤔🤔🤔
Gammitin (Ben) 💾
Elosha