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 EV> I will be getting it later this week and putting it on my XP
 EV> box because my VESA VL-BUS 486DX2-66 doesn't have any PCI
 EV> Slots on the motherboard.

 Damn! A VLB 486DX2-66. Oh how I remember.

 My original desktop was a 486sx25 with 4mb ram and a 165mb hard
 drive, IIRC. Over the years I had that I slowly upgraded it to a
 486DX4-100 and maybe 2Gig HD. The ultimate upgrade was the Vesa
 Local Bus motherboard. After that I replaced the individual
 cards as I found them at a price I could afford. Eventually I
 had something lik 32MB ram and all my cards VLB.

 The way I tested for the speed of the system was to find some
 streamed video, and see how large I could get it. Live streamed
 video from Europe, the size of a postage stamp, was
 exhilarating.

 Then Intel came out with upgrades for the CPU. I finally got a
 pentium overdrive chip, which ran at 83MHZ, but was 32 bit and
 beat the heck out of the 486DX100. Then I could watch live
 streaming video the size of a large postage stamp. Wow!

 I really hated to give that away, but it really couldn't compete
 with my first pentium, a Celeron 500mhz.

 While looking for something else I found I had an old Intel
 Overdrive DX20DP50 cpu in my stash. Don't even recall where I
 got it, or know if it's any good. If you are interested you can
 have it.

 I also found a reference work online that dates back to that
 time,

 www.philipstorr.id.au/pcbook/book5/486.htm

 There were a series of those upgrade chips, and this may be one
 of the early ones. If it's any good it should work with a VLB
 board.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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