Brutkey

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I seem to have gotten through my larger CF cards, I have a bunch of smaller ones, <512MB. I do however have one 1GB, that I've managed to install an old version of DSL (Knoppix based) Linux distro.

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One thing I've discovered with this machine, something I've had with early Pentium PC's before- it's insanely fussy on harddrive solutions.
SD-IDE
❌
SATA-IDE
❌
It seems to only like either very small IDE drives, or simple CF-IDE, the BIOS is very limited.

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Floppy Drive Boot Test:

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I've decided that I need to start doing more videos and get over this irrational dislike for the sound of my own voice.
Here's the first power on test!
😳😳🤞🤞

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64K of potential!

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8-bit Hardware Modem, notice that cheeky EPROM, XT-IDE potential 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

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ISA Parallel Port Card
Appears to be 8-bit, notice none of the 16-bit pins go anywhere (might be wrong).

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Matrox MGA Millennium 2MB PCI
+
2MB Memory Upgrade Board
=
4MB Amazing!
😍😍

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Motherboard:
Gateway 634784-608 Socket 5
4x PCI
3x ISA

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Feline approval granted! 😺😺